[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

I'm sure VZW has a lot to do with it; the licensing fees they're paying LucasFilm for the Droid name alone would probably feed a Third-World country. They could just as easily have called it HAL or WOPR or Big Red (just think: Special-edition metallic red Droid X...in fact I expect one to drop right around Christmas). VZW wanted people to associate the OS and the brand name thereby blurring the distinction. I'm sure that will rub off on phones such as the LG Ally which runs Android 2.1..."Oh hey, it's the same OS as the Droid, only $100 less..."

Speaking of LG and Android based phones:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-n...?pageNumber=0#

A $50 Android based smartphone, anyone?

My stepdaughter said she wanted a Droid X because she'd seen all the commercials and was surrounded by iPhone users in her part of the country. Backlash perhaps?

Perhaps. As I said, fashion accessory, where the point is being cooler than thou. The iPhone is probably getting backlash because of the iPhone users exuding "Nyah Nyah Nyah! I've got an iPhone and you don't! I'm cooler than you are!"

With the Droid, a "The iPhone is so last year!" response becomes possible.

As Dennis will probably agree, there will be a number of people who couldn't care less about the OS as long as it "Just Works".

And frankly, they shouldn't have to care. It should Just Work.

Lots of Ubuntu users fall into that same category, while those more knowledgeable just stand back and nod their heads. If someone wants to gain geek cred with me using their phone, they'd better have a terminal emulator open on it running an ssh session.

I've done that on occasion with my old Palm OS PDA, getting into a work *nix server, mostly because I could. I'd hate to try to do anything serious using that connection...

On the other side of the coin, if it wasn't for Android, would anyone care about the Droid X?

You can make a case that if it weren't for Android, there wouldn't be a Droid X.
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Dennis