I haven’t given my NexusOne as much of a chance as Justin did, but sounds like I would have reached a very similar conclusion.
FWIW every time I’ve declined to sign an NDA in this context the company/person in question has told me their Super Secret Plans anyway.
“All of these things are vying for attention and evangelism. Some of them are great, some of them are stupid, but they’re all clubbed together under this vague banner of ‘The Open Web’. It sets expectations and demands from developers, who are all the while being wowed by the efficiency and quality of proprietary application frameworks like Flash and Cocoa.”
With an onslaught of new devices running Android 2.0 in the pipeline from numerous carriers worldwide, development within the Android community is growing at breakneck speeds. Mobile analytics firm Flurry released stats recently showing just how much developers are jumping on the Android bandwagon.