Last week, Robert “I love FriendFeed” Scoble (otherwise known as @Scobleizer on Twitter) bought a Motorola DROID. I caught one of his tweets on one of my twitter streams followed by this one.

My first thoughts? “OMG @Scobleizer went Android!”

I was about to throw a “Welcome to the Android Movement Robert Scoble” Party until I read this – his full initial recount of what was good about the DROID and lots of things that were NOT good about the DROID.

During the next few days I followed his DROID experience on Twitter and quickly came to realize that Scoble did not go Android. He was merely curious and wanted to test the phone out. *sigh*

Just recently he entered into a discussion (argument) with Michael Arrington (@Arrington) and it went something like this … “iPhone vs. DROID” – ’nuff said.

Am I discouraged by this? Hell no! This gives manufacturer’s the opportunity to come up with a better product for people like @Scobleizer. Who wants to take up this challenge?

One thing I must point out and share is the fact that what I love most are the comments. Not just on Scoble’s post but in all the posts I’ve been reading on the worldwideweb. What I’ve found is the surprising number of people (Android Supporters, naturally) that put in their two cents worth. Some comments are easily worth more than two cents, while others are just, two cents. It’s from these “more than two cents” comments that one can really learn and get a more deeper understanding of the Android Platform and its relationship to other platforms and products too.

One comment on Scoble’s post was from Mike Bracco.

Scoble – another thing to note: just as you mention Arrington’s need for integration with Google Voice, I have just as much need as a heavy Mac user to have all of my Mac world sync up with my iPhone world. I use MobileMe to sync my contacts/calendar in the cloud. I also sync all of my media I buy or rent in iTunes. Most importantly, I use various Mac apps which sync to companion iPhone apps (most notably OmniFocus and 1Password – both of which have Mac/iPhone apps that sync). Although Mac users are smaller than their Windows counterparts, I don’t really see how a Mac user beyond a novice who just uses it to check email perhaps, would use any other phone. If you want rock solid integration with your Mac and the apps you use, I don’t see there ever being another option.

I completely agree with Mike. Being a former MacAddict (Now turned Closet Mac), this is so true. If you’ve never had an Apple Product then I wouldn’t expect you to relate to this experience and even if you have two Apple Products, unless you are a hard-core Apple User, the seamless integration and experience you get from Apple products talking to one another is simply “Awesome”. But, not everyone is a hard-core Mac User. Not everyone can even afford a Mac (even with their prices being slashed) and not everyone wants a Mac. Let’s face it, there are hard-core meat eaters, people that don’t eat red-meat only, people that don’t eat meat but only seafood, poultry etc … lacto-ovo vegetarians, vegetarians and vegans.

Let the techy, tech bloggers, geeky, gadget lovers talk about platforms and devices, apps and UI’s, for that’s what they love to do. But for the mainstream masses that just want to live not-so-geeky-techy lives and who want devices that not only make the
communication with their friends, family and the world a whole lot easier, but who also just want gadgets that they think are cool and that speaks to their individualities, not to mention, affordable – everything that is out there is just a paradise of experience.

iPhone, Nokia, LG, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android … whatever – there’s a cool smart phone for everyone, there’s a platform for everyone and there’s a UI for everyone.

I personally think that there will be more devices out there that will run the Android OS (think Windows .. sort of). Why? Simple. Because Android is Open Source.

And, I really do think that the platform will get better, the UI’s will also get better and everything that Robert Scoble said he did not like about the DROID (as a product), there will be another product that will come out (Android based) that will blow his mind. I won’t hold my breath but I will believe. I will believe because I have faith in man’s need for challenge, and in the evolution of “think outside the box” communities that can be found within a movement of developers that, when given an Open Source Platform … may very well, just change the world to a better place. Will Android bring world Peace? Maybe, I’d like to think so, indirectly. But Android can definitely bring about a different kind of “in your hand” user-experience. An individualized user-experience that celebrates … well, our differences.