The Nexus One is no iPhone - and that’s OK
A of the Nexus One which gives a fair account of both the phone and what it means to Google.
The Nexus finishes the job that the Droid began: it completes the legitimacy of Android as a phone OS. It suddenly makes iPhone comparisons seem cheap and tacky. A phone running Android 2.x doesn’t need to be as good as an iPhone at anything. With these two phones, Android has proven that it now only needs to be as good as Google’s expectations for it, along with the expectations of its users.
Android 2.x is an OS with a clear future. The Google Nexus, despite some flaws, and despite my ongoing concern about Google’s ability to deliver a truly polished user experience, is a credible candidate for the title of Best Smartphone On The Market. Like an argument about whether “Citizen Kane” is better than “The Empire Strikes Back,” the Android versus iPhone argument is, finally, pointless; it quickly and sensibly becomes a list of the differences between two very different things, made with very different goals in mind.
