Why Android sucks

Over the past week I haven't been chatting much, and it's been because I bought myself a shiny new toy. I bought the Asus Transform TF101-A1, a 16 Gigabyte Android tablet. At first, I wasn't so impressed with it. Eventually I started to find my way around and discovered how nice I could make things. Then, I ventured into the market...

The Android Marketplace sucks. Plain and simple. Finding apps is a pain in the ass, unless you know exactly what you are looking for. There are tons of apps out there, but most of them just don't seem to deliver the promises that they make. Many apps ask for tons of unnecessary permissions to use your device. Without the rigorous screening that's taken place in the iTunes store, it opens the door for some pretty scary security holes. As far as quality of apps go, the marketplace seems really lacking. The good are few and far between. Quality tablet-specific apps seem almost nonexistent.

I think it's a mere fluke that the Android platform got so popular. It started off as a nice base for hackers to play with their devices, while still having the backing of a major entity. Now the hacker community is just a small fraction of the user base, somewhat hidden away to avoid the beggars and skiddies who want their phone rooted and flashed just to get some new live wallpaper or something. I don't think it's as nice as it probably once started out with developers donating their free time to contribute to a mobile platform that actually made sense, as far as freedom was concerned.

The freedom is still there, but now mainly only to those with the patience to read the fine print. It was implemented poorly allowing applications to abuse the user's (pseudo) privacy. The Android world is a little daunting; It requires a bit more thinking that could be expected from today's automated society.

The Kingdom of TaLKiNG

The Kingdom of #TaLKiNg is located on the far away land of Rizon, it is ruled by the king, Rei_Sama, he loves his people and would do anything for them.

When Rei is away the channel is left in the hands of the Princes and Princesses (Admins)

Collet is the magical CupCake Princess who's current intention is to destroy The Kingdom's newly found rivals, the Kingdom of Eagletits! errr Eagleits*. Her main objectives are to increase channel growth and keep a fun atmosphere.

Maylay is the dashing Prince in Red, he's the mastermind behind this blog and keeps order in the kingdom

Liamlifeless is probably the nicest of the royal family, he loves metal and is always willing to lend a hand

Larks is the castle IT guy, he's the creator of the most channel's beloved bot, TsunBot, he mostly lingers in the background but shows up when needed

UndeadRevolution is the quietest of the royal family, he's one of Collet's closest and Confidant.

Kuro_Shinobi is Rei_Sama's brother, he's usually off on adventure and focuses on his studies.

mooshe/mooshie is the castle care taker, his favorite show is Mastercook and Heaven's Kitchen who he usually discusses with Collet.

Helion is the castle wizard, he's always producing new potions and loves to share them with the Kingdom's people.

polyasleep is a princess? (I don't know her gender) who was recently discovered, she almost never talks and is ALWAYS asleep,

AnimeWatcherNewbie is a peasant who complained not being here so I had to add him, likes Anime and along with Collet, listen to Madam Goo Goo

Sousti is a very quiet castle guard, he arrives once on a blue moon and his words move so slow as if a rocket was up his ass

Aeri is the channel witch, she beats disobeying people with her staff and uses her magic powers to make people do her bidding.

Together we manage a Kingdom of a population in the 40s (people die and reincarsinate all the time =/)

Today.

So I guess I'll start things off with a bit of a regular (possibly boring) post. I've always imagined the chat room to have maybe a /blog function to paraphrase the conversations going on and the morals of their stories. I think something like that is a little ambitious right now, but here is a half-way point that hopefully will grow into something nice. If you think you'd like to contribute some thought you can send me a message on Rizon.