Thats funny, I have a Verizon droid I got from Best Buy, a still on Verizon and upgraded to 2.2 abit ago.
I have none of the crapware you guys are mentioning on my phone. Odd. I'm not complaining.
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BTW - let me speak as a software developer, and not someone who sells phones: Androids "just work" too. Thats part of why their sales figures are passing Apple's. All the tweaking and twixing, tuning and hacking is far more possible and powerful on them than on iphones so thats why you read about it more. It doesnt have any relevence or correlation to how well the vanilla devices work right out of the box. Which, btw, Gartner is collecting data on, on all mobility devices. Looking very forward to when they publish THAT data...
Anyway, the Apple fanboy advertising mantra of "it just works" is tired, old, and false. Give me 5 mins on an apple desktop, ipad or iphone and I guarantee can completely lock it up/crash it to hard boot. We do it daily at work. They're more stable than some and less stable than others. Their shit's not anywhere near the top of the stability heap.
Oh, and I've been writing software for mainframes, PCs, all unix flavors, Macs, rim, droid, iphones, you name it for coming up on 30 years.
Back to your regularly scheduled thread
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