Robert Evans reports for I4U News, “Just a few moments ago at the Google I/O the demonstration team encountered one of the more embarrassing problems in modern tech presentation memory. An iPad and a Google Android phone were set up side-by-side to display the loading of a new application. While the iPad populated and loaded quickly, the Android phone was less successful.”
MacDailyNews Note: The fun starts at 1:40:27:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
MacDailyNews Take: Smirk. It’s not just the Wi-Fi issue, either; note the user experience and the responsiveness. That app looks like Microsoft made it, only worse.
BTW, nice “solution” to entering numbers; God forbid you have a heart attack, you’d be dead before you could get 9-1-1 into the thing. 
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Steven M.” for the heads up.]
That’s one way to enter numbers, BTW. The other way is to press the numbers button to bring up the numbers keyboard – almost exactly like the iPhone does.
Forget about the Android fail. The whole presentation is just plain awful. These guys all need some speech and drama classes.
So….they sold out their I/O conference 2 1/2 months in advance. Whoopdie fricken do! The WWDC sold out in what 3 days of tickets going on sale? They still have a long ways to go…
I feel bad for the presenters.
Wait, no, actually that was just feeling bad for the audience. Awwwwwwk-ward.
Google’s products will always have a customer base of geeks whose only criteria is a bigger feature list. (I’m a geek, but I know better.) Apple, in the meantime, will captivate and capture the mainstream.
I watched it on You Tube, and it was strobe-like and eventually crashed my browser. Must have been Flash.
Very amateurish presentation only of interest to the anti-Apple losers. Google is so far behind they can never catch up, but apparently don’t realise it.
MS-like FAIL. That was beautiful. Way to go Google. The network is saturated eh? Right…
How come Steve Jobs doesn’t have to wear that moronic head set / mic? I/O – Innovation in the Open? WTF.
seriously funny,
as someone who has to present every week, I would agree that it appeared unrehearsed from a technology standpoint. You rehearse that stuff until it’s down pat before a presentation.
OK, how many minutes into the drab is the good stuff?
ah, found it. didn’t see it listed at the top of the you tube screen
Seeing Analdroid first time… Fuggly!
Can’t watch it-link on site keeps telling me an error occured, I go to youtube-it locks up firefox.
It was like seeing a Phisher Price toy next to a Beemer at a stop light. iPhone experience is in a different CLASS from Android. Google will throw anything out as quick as possible just to make a buck. Example Android. They got a late start trying to catch up to Iphone OS that they threw a P.O.S. out that wasn’t well thought out. I admit switching to an Android HTC Hero to save$, but in the long run I had to just get rid of the android, go to a cheap flip and get most use out of old wifi iPhone. Android will give you no way to KILL apps from just running in background as soon as you force them to quit, they come right back and immediately suck memory and power. I had looked forward to the so called multi tasking but soon found that didn’t mean the same thing I thought. Real pain. Now I use my Ipad to access my work computer. iPhone is jailbroken and I use both daily with Sprint Hotspot. They both work fine although the iPad does drop often and I am forced to type in my wifi password. Come apple WTF? Get that s&:t fixed! But I way way WAY like it better than android. I can also count my kids and wife with not being happy about losing our iPhones. Hey learn from my stupid mistake. If you want a useful easy, fun phone then iPhone has no competition. I have to use a blackberry for work. It also blows!
WTF? it’s a shame that it works better on the competitors product than on your own. HTML5 is nondiscriminatory and that, like Android products, will not fare well for Google Products in the long run.
Given a choice, people would prefer Apple hardware over Google’s. Look to Europe for proof. They have many choices, including Android and Symbian and they want Apple.
Is that the new HTC EVO they were using? Mossberg said it’s fast but has several flaws, including shockingly low battery life.
In all fairness about the 911 MDN, there’s got to be a number pad for regular phone calls. You wouldn’t use a QWERTY for that.
Finally watched.
Horrible presentation-very boring.
Tech issues-wifi did not work so great on phone, but ipad got the updates quickly. Yet the wifi was “overloaded”?
Notice how many times he hit the wrong area on the phone-brought up date when meant to hit expense type area, kept having to peck at the done button. Entering numbers looked very slow and clumsy.
I am impressed Google, I am immediately ditching my iphone/ipad and switching over to your swell devices right after my lobotomy.
Too embarrassing to watch all the way through.
any tech snafu coming up (i’m at 2:56 now) can’t compete with the terrible derivative and condescending presentation so far.
Jesus. That was embarrassing. Google’s Perpetual Beta Complex bites them in the ass yet again. I don’t think Apple has much to fear from Google. The fit, finish and performance of all of their products outside their search engine has been lackluster at best. Even G-mail has some pretty big flaws when using it from the web interface and that’s probably their biggest success outside of search. This Android experiment has been a bust so far and I don’t see them fixing it anytime soon. Especially with the device OS version fragmentation that’s spun out of control for them.
what brand of android phone was that? great wifi reception compared to iPad, eh? and that was a widget kind of app on it right? compared to a web app on the iPad i guess? so why was the widget so visibly crude compared to the iPad web app? hmmmm lemme guess …
this will go viral.
ROFL. Wow that be bad.
When you showcase a product to the public and investors … you should make sure it works rofl.
I doubt people will buy the product now based on that keynote alone.
Hahahaha….. bunch of f’n morons
So their prize device falters because of “Wifi issues”. And their prize device has crappy battery life because of developer issues. ‘Denial’ is not just a river….
I have not seen an Android interface until today and my IMMEDIATE reaction was: Wow, this interface including the icons looks like it’s made by engineers familiar with linux!
It’s totally a device with an interface for engineers!! It does NOT look friendly for an everyday person. I’m sure geeky engineers will like it but it’s not for the everyday Jane/Joe.
I’ll just take your word for it….
At two hours and five minutes…it will take two hours and five minutes to cache from YouTube….