Guy complaining about his Nexus One being slow. It should be, that phone was designed to run up to Android 2.x and has long lost any support for system updates. It wasn't even originally designed to run Android 3.x. There's a whole lot more about your phone's compatibility than "still duking it out specifications wise", in his own words.
Edit: Oops, yes, no claim to run ICS. Either way, he's using an incredibly dated phone. The comparison isn't far off from trying to run iOS 5 on an iPhone 3GS.
Plus, he has a very good point, yeah his phone is old and slow, but he's not trying to play a new game, he is DOWNLOADING A COUPON. Wal-mart phones can do that these days. Also, needing to buy a phone every 3 months just for it to be useable, is not what they call a good "user experience"
Here is a brand new 2012 Samsung Pocket. The Nexus One is still way ahead of this thing: http://www.mobileburn.com/18826/news/samsung-galaxy-pocket-i...
The Pocket features a 2.8-inch, 240 x 320 pixel touchscreen and is powered by a single-core 832MHz processor.
That said, running Google Offers on my Nexus One (CM 7) was just fine over wifi (I am no longer on its original carrier and I use it as a wifi iTouch-like device). I couldn't find the Starbucks offer but all the other offers seemed to let me purchase then and there in app.
The complaint was that a simple app was needlessly unusable on his phone.
That's ridiculous, to put it mildly.
I don't see these posts (and there are a few of them, for every phone, every OS, and every carrier) as people wanting to turn others away from the phone, but rather wanting to turn attention to the flaws. Flaws that can then be fixed by the maker of the system. Nothing turns a company's head faster than bad publicity.
The Nexus One is old, I'll give you that. As I point out though, this is somehow still the average experience for any Android user. My phone isn't that far behind the top-end Android phones these days.
Android makes some tradeoffs to give their users choice. It has upsides and downsides, but the true benefit is that people can decide for themselves if they want beefier hardware to run the same relative speed but have more control over the OS, or if they want the other give-and-take. There's less overhead on iOS and WP7, but there's also less control.
I love the market we have right now. There's almost literally something for everyone. I just wish Palm was back in to round it out with WebOS.
And whoever complained he's using an old phone... I'm still using an iPhone 3GS (released 2009) with latest iOS. Why can't he complain about a phone that is almost a year newer?
But even that doesn't really matter to me. I hope he finds what he's looking for... whether it is with an iPhone, a Windows phone or even a new Android phone. I wish everyone luck in finding the phone/OS/carrier combo that works best for them. I'm just so glad that there are plenty of those combos for everyone to choose from.
That's Apple's modus operandi. What we sell you works very, very well; but you have to buy everything from us.
While an app experience is bad, it's no reason to ditch an OS. It's like blaming Microsoft because their version of Minesweeper isn't as good as 3rd party ones and ditching Windows for OSX or Linux.
They don't care about your ancient phone that was designed last decade. Get over it.
Many people buy smartphones on a 18 month - 2 year contract and often will wait until the price has dropped a bit to buy it. So I think 3-4 year old phones should still be well supported if they want to gain people's trust.
why does offers need to be an app? it would work perfectly well in-browser. it's not android that's pointless, it's the tendency of users to expect an app for every little tiny feature that belongs on a website. and it's only worse on iOS.
Opening a browser and going to a website is great on a computer, and I'd hate to have a separate program to do that, but on a phone it's nice to have a shortcut right where everything else is. I like that when you click it, it does one thing.
It's just my opinion, and I know not everyone shares in it, but I abhor mobile browsers. On a screen that small you either sacrifice viewing space or easy access to navigation. I keep my bookmarked sites stored in my app list, because launching an app is rote versus launching the browser app then opening the bookmarks menu then selecting the bookmark.
The problem with this app, from what I got from the author, is that it doesn't launch a browser window, but instead has a complex and slow app, then redirects you to a browser. If it simply opened the browser window, I don't think this article would have been written.
