Matt Burns Declares Motorola Screwed Up
/The original Droid started the Android revolution. It was the anti-iPhone: an open OS, sliding QWERTY keyboard, available on Verizon and featured a removable battery and expandable memory. Now many of those advantages are moot points. Android is no longer viewed as open, most people are sold on virtual keyboards, the iPhone is available everywhere, and now, thanks to Motorola, the Droid 4 features a built-in battery. Sorry, power users.
Matt makes the argument that power users what a user-replaceable battery. I can only take this to mean that no power user anywhere uses any Apple product made in the last 4 years or so. I use my iPhone extensively, all day long, and I have no problems. Once my phone was down to 7% when I plugged it in before bed.
Matt goes on to add:
You see, Motorola, like every other phone maker is racing to produce the thinnest phone possible. Apparently they feel thinner phones will result in more sales and/or street cred. I don’t know. But it’s silly.
Yeah, it's Motorola's user-replaceable battery that has made it so popular:
(Image via Horace Dediu)