To me, android is just an excuse for phone companies to sell phones.

Before people start flaming me, I deal a lot with android phones. I got the Xperia X10, the mother of all phones. Hero, Legend, Tattoo I have tested it all.

But android phones are for people who are not afraid of getting down and dirty with the OS. Not for people who wanted things to just work. In that case, get a WinMo (HTC HD mini highly recommended) or the Iphone. Or Nokia even.

Why?

Because it's still half baked, and those using it are the beta testers. I was looking to make android work with a macbook pro, for tethering purpose, and all solutions involved rooting the phone, or using pdanet to set up bluetooth DUN. This is legend, 2.1 Eclair or whatever biskut name they decided to give.

Pdanet works some of the time, doesn't work most other time, decides not to work a majority of the time.

Turning it into wifi router (joikuspot with nokia, wmwifirouter with winmo, or built in like HD2 and HD mini) requires ROOTING. Fine with me, but not with my corporate clients. They wanted something turn on straight can use. Sure, can tether using HTC Sync, but use cable, a hassle many don't actually want. And this solution still doesn't work on a mac.

Heck, people wanted 8 hours + notebooks because they don't want to lug around a bag full with the charger adapters and all.

And that's just the story with tethering.

Will android succeed? Sure, google is backing it, and throw enough money at it, it will work out in the end. But I'm sick of being treated like a test subject. Version 1.6 got this, 2.0 got that, 2.1 got this, 2.2 we put flash new version, 2.3? 2.4?

Unless manufacturer guarantees that they will update all their phones accordingly, I don't see why we should be beta testers. And yes, thanks to the people at xda-developers, you can, unofficially.

But why don't they really bake a good biskut that we can eat, instead of biskut this kurang gula, biskut that kurang marjerin, biskut this takde coklat chip?