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When i first moved here, the first 2 years were spent 16 hours a day, 7 days a week porting an OS to a new computer architecture. In reality it took us 8 months, but then we had to fix bugs, QA and refine it. It was a blast. I got to work with some amazing people. Then I left the computer industry for 2 years, and joined an entrepreneurial carrier to learn about wireless data. I did learn a lot, but I soon realized that carriers are pretty dumb, but they think they are smart. I got back into the computer industry with a startup, and it went public a few years later. It paid off quite a bit, and I was happy. Then I got unhappy, and joined some friends in a startup that built a world class Java mobile OS. Unfortunately when we got big money, they brought incompetent management in, and it failed. Then I started my own company with some of the folks from that Java OS company, and we had a blast. Then i hired a business guy who basically just wanted to position us to cash out for himself. Never again. Then I joined my current place. 5 years I have been there, trying very hard to change the way they did things, to make them better. I had some successes, only to have other people take credit for them. I now run product management and have defined, I think, a really cool experience that I will not talk about here. I know it is cool, because when the dev team built a demo of it, people all around the company and some key customers started drooling. Because of that, the land grab is starting to happen, just like it did before. This basically sucks. 

So many people I have worked with have benefitted by my hard work, and I get pushed aside and marginalized. NO MORE.

It is time to take control of my life, and tell those who keep trying to benefit from my hard work to fuck off. Now I know how Howard Armstrong felt when RCA and DeForrest fucked him out of his ideas and his spoils. The world is a bad place. But I wake every morning and look in the mirror and can live with myself, because, I do not stoop to the low life practices of some of the people I have worked for.

So, it is time for me to do my own thing, and reap my own rewards. And I will never allow anyone to join if their attitude is to get rich quick.

My first interview question is going to be: 

         Will you work for free? Will you work for equity? If the answer is no, they do not join. Simple.

Second interview question:

         Do you like to use Windows or a Mac? if the answer is Windows, they do not join ;)

Third Interview Question:

         Do you want to join for the money, or for the adventure. I think you can figure out that answer.

The one thing I have going for me is the majority of people I have managed or have been indirects to me, love how I have the passion, the drive and the inclusiveness of other's ideas when building great products. Those who have been loyal, join the cause, work hard will be rewarded. It will be a fun place to work. It just will not be lip service, or an empty suit talking. It will be the real thing. My former business partner, Dave, will tell you, when we started the last venture, we had a blast. Then we hired the money soak, and it did not stay fun.

Stay tuned, the fun will begin.

Ciao

I was once a member of SavaJe Technologies, so I cannot be totally objective in this observation, because damn it, we did some stuff way better than Andy and his crew.

First off, the Nexus One (from now on, referred to as the N.O.), is packaged simply and beautifully. Unfortunately, it is much bigger packaging than iPhone, but even though it is larger, it is still nicely done.

The N.O. came with a charge, so I popped my SIM taken from my TMO myTouch into the phone. Phone powered right up, and sent me through the setup wizard, which was quite easy. Having used an Android phone, getting used to this phone was easy, and a much needed improvement over the myTouch. The screen is absolutely beautiful.

And it is fast. It actually makes Android look like a decent OS. The keyboard is actually responsive, for a software keyboard. However, the keyclicks, when turned on, are annoying as hell. Reminds me of a bad Selectric.

I loaded the usual apps I would use on it. Seesmic, being the only Twitter client that has any goodness to it on Android, worked flawlessly. Facebook, (I am on the Beta for Rhapsody, go to http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/01/droidapp.html, if you want to get in on it), , Foursquare, etc. All apps work great. The N.O. is a really awesome phone. I love Google Voice integration. Since I use GV alot, it is nice to have that.

Now, let me get to the negatives. Battery life. Horrible. Moving Wallpaper, see battery life. Keyboard feedback, meh. But, that is really the only "negatives" I could see. This is not an iPhone, so interfacing with Android is a bit of a learning curve, but nothing impossible. It is just different. One of the things the iPhone beats this in, is in the fonts. I think the iPhone has better fonts. Put an OLED on the iPhone, it would win, hands down.

Voice sound is quite good, due to the audio processor in the phone. Using a differential mic setup, it does a really good job canceling noise.

Multitasking: I understand why iPhone doesn't allow 3rd parties to do multitasking (though Apple's own apps, like iPod, App Store, etc can). 3RD party apps, done wrong, can simply burn the battery down. However, having said that, I enjoy the multitasking features of the Nexus One. 

Media Management. Yay, they have a better player than the piece of shit in the myTouch. I know who wrote the thing, and I will not mention their name here. It plays well. I sync music to the device using Salling Media Sync (http://www.sallingsoftware.com/). It does a great job. However, some of my music is in Apple Lossless format, which the Nexus One does not support. Sigh....

The only hardware glitch I can report is plugging it into the front USB port on my MacPro (Early 2008). It somehow kills the Apple Keyboard and its internal hub when I do. I have to unplug the N.O. and replug in the keyboard to get it to respond. I do not know if you have seen this, but it is annoying.

Summary:

If I was to not be biased about iPhone, I would definitely have the Nexus One as my phone. But I will use it as a backup and demo phone for the software we are writing for Android.