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.]
i have been showing this video all day to my friends, even if i dont care for Google’s phone OS that was just bad right there. That reminds me of the blue screen happening with Microsoft! Yeah yeah blame the wifi for your app not working and blame your battery life on the 3rd party apps oi just say hey its still beta and we are working on it!
Here’s a link that works:
That Android device next to an iPad is like an ugly person next to a very attractive one. You can’t help notice the difference in beauty and can’t take you eyes off the beautiful one.
All those guys need to get out of the basement and pay a hooker and get laid. Wow! Those dudes give us self-respecting nerds a bad name. That was like watching a stage version of the The 40 Year Old Virgin.
The whole point is…. I got whole liver ache just watching that. And it hurts!
That was just painful!
Does that mean you actually paid for a hooker to make yourself “self-respecting”?
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Anyway. Wow that was embarrassing for google, I am sure it’s the droid incredible’s fault. or which ever candy wrapper for shit it is. This was a great day to laugh at android platform.
The HTC finally got the 2.1 upgrade with the disclaimer “you will lose your information with this upgrade” You have to go hunting for a decent backup program, wah wah wah, NO ITUNES like experience.
And then this WAH WAH WAHHHHH!! Problem, blame it on someone else, the google way.
hahahahahahah MDN magic word: THEY as in:
They should of stayed with ads, search, mail and maps.
They, like you, might find it difficult to get laid.
The competition is hanging on to every Google announcement or hoping that the next Android update will finally be the one that knocks the iPhone off its perch. It’s all hype, people. Nothing more. Just like the excitement over the failed Nexus 1 wained, so will this weeks hype fest. The real excitement begins June 7. I’ve just switched my default search engine on my iPhone, iPad and Macs to Yahoo. Who’s with me?
Ow.
Painful.
And I heard from the audience throughout the entire presentation, except in tiny smatterings, a deafening silence.
If I was a Google shareholder, I’d be on a SELL standby.
Why does the expense value box have 0.00 in it that you always have to delete before entering a new value?
So to enter a number, one has to tab to entry-box then press del four times before you can enter your expense value.
Nice …
…not.
Why does that guy keep saying he had a very good dinner?
Competition is good for Apple. But, please, send somebody who is challenging!
that was painful and pathetic.
Goggle is the new Microsoft
Seems to me that Google and Apple products are opposite in this way.
Apple products on paper don’t seem all that exciting, but in reality are great.
Google products on paper seem like a great idea, but in reality suck.
OMFG. Does this keynote sound like Microsoft much?
It’s making my stomach churn.
I’m gonna hurl!
:-Q*********
Seriously. Soooo Microsoft.
BTW: For those who are NOT paid Google trolls, and who take offense at making fun of Google: Apple has been putting up with far more ludicrous BS regarding the Mac since 1984. And all it did was make the Mac bettter.
May the same be true for Google Android.
In the meantime, what we’re seeing in the video is the SOS there has always been in the software industry: Version 1.0 Syndrome. A classic case.
What’s unforgivable is that the demo hadn’t been tested and debugged it in situ before hand. Instead they did it cold, and it killed them. Bad show Google. Very bad show. Everyone applaud.
This isn’t bad, not all demos work. The audience here is all developers, they know how beta versions of software doesn’t always work right, and there is always a lot of room for improvement. Google has always been very open with their innovations, and reveal/release beta products to their core fans before its stable enough to be released to consumers. Plus they showed off their idea pretty well, integrating the App between both the iPad and Incredible.
Apple’s core fans are largely less savvy, and are more interested in consumer needs, vogue/trendy features, demoed in their final form. One difference is that Apple will not release or mention a feature until its perfect, this prevents criticism like this from unknowing consumers. Google however is more open and will demo new ideas for the community to give feedback one, leading to faster innovation.
Overall Google I/O went extremely well, Android has come so far. Apple has a great team too, although I think they are limited by Job’s “vision.” But Apple and Android are both leading innovation in the mobile marketplace. Two different business model at work: Low margin/High volume vs High margin/niche market
Just goes to show that while Apple will be slow to bring features to their phones, they at least make sure everything is working properly first.
BTW, if you haven’t seen what flash does on Android, go find an old PII/500 with a DX9 graphics card. It’s really that choptastic.
The phone is in Airplane mode and its wifi is CLEARLY disconnected (look at the status bar and note that its not connected to any network when he pulls up the mobile network settings)
hes not even using stock android so you can’t say for sure that was an android problem or an HTC problem
you dont enter 9-1-1 in the keyboard….you enter it in the phone wtf….
and you can press the 123 button at the bottom of the keyboard to use the numeric keyboard….
it wasnt a side by side conparisin you idiots it was letting you know it can work on apple and android not which works better, or are you all that stupid
Meh… the guy had ‘Airplane Mode’ & WiFi on at the same time, it bugs out Android…