The Sinister Moose

I use a Droid, a Motorola Droid X phone and I find it a  wonderful thing in comparison to my old 3G [s] iPhone. However, I do feel that Google is trying to do too much.

My droid x is powered by the Android operating system, which I believe I'm correct in saying, belongs to google. Gmail is Google, Google apps (Google again), Google Maps for navigation, Google Earth, Chrome, and lets not forget the Search engine, and ad words, and the various experimental projects...

Personally I feel the quality of all these products suffer because there are too many projects, too many directions of focus. I have stopped using Google as a search engine, simply because the once highly focused relevance algorithm and indexing, returned relevant results, without the need to Boolean tweak my search terms.

Google has placed Android directly on a path that should be in direct competition with Apple's iPhone/iPad. Where the Apple devices heavily integrate with a Mac desktop, the Droid phones, do not integrate with any desktop completely nor easily. Being in competition means competing on the same playing field, and Droid Don't. I am a life long mac user, and without buying a 3rd party application, I can only use my Android devices as a USB mass storage device on my mac.

But, let's delve a little deeper. Android is Google's software, yet the operating system does not include integration with Google Documents, nor does it immediately receive changes like the ability to eliminate the Conversation view from the built in Gmail app. It is counter intuitive.

I understand the need for Windows integration, since the majority of desktop users are running some form of Windows, and that's obviously a larger market share. Apple also realized that the majority of iPhone users would also be Windows users, and the integration between Windows and the iPhone is handled nicely through iTunes, on either OS X or Windows. Is it possible that Google has lost so much focus that they are willing to give up on the admittedly smaller portion of Mac users? Or is Google so wealthy and so over-saturated with money, that they can just toss the nickles and dimes out with the trash? I can't help but notice that my Motorola droid x has a "PC Sync" via the USB connection option, which is obviously built into the Android OS.

Again, the lack of attention to their own products and lack of attention to customer demands, is doing more harm than Google is prepared to admit. I admit that I'm in a minority being a Mac user, and iPhone hater, but having an Android OS powered phone, that does not integrate completely (even with Google), is mind boggling.