Where’s the peanut butter?!

From the Linux Keyboard and console HOWTO:

People often complain `my backspace key does not work’, as if this key had a built-in function `delete previous character’.

Can you imagine? What idiot n00b would make such a ridiculous assumption! These are probably the same people who assume that the button labeled “start” will make their microwave leap into action in some prescribed fashion when all it does is send a waveform through some copper wires and maybe a PCB. Obviously you’ve got to wade through a bunch of arcane config files to make that happen. I mean, duh!

So I got a G1 almost a month ago and I’m basically very happy with it, but I have a couple key gripes:

• The Market - the market is this awesome integrated software distribution system. I’m pretty sure this is like the iPhone store or something, but Windows Mobile didn’t have anything like this and BlackBerry didn’t really, either. Actually, there was basically no interesting software for blackberry, which was one of its biggest drawbacks. Anyway - the market is great. Except the rating system. Geez louise is this a disaster. Users have the ability to rate applications 1-5 stars and add comments. Every single application that shows up now has, as its first ~10 ratings, various lam3rs claiming “first” and putting in some default 1-5 star rating. This completely throws off the weighting of the reviews of any software in the market and makes the review functionality in the market basically useless. IMO, Google should immediately block any client who ever posts a review “first” in the first 10 messages from ever contributing feedback to the store again. That may seem heavy handed but they’re ruining the market.
• A2DP - this is just a gripe. The G1 doesn’t have a standard headphone jack and T-Mobile is allegedly now shipping the phone with a 3.5mm adapter so you can use regular headphones. I figured I wouldn’t care about this because I’d just use my bluetooth headphones and hook them up via A2DP but I was wrong because the G1 bluetooth stack doesn’t support A2DP right now. Huh? Please fix this, Google. I’m assuming this is fixable. I’m going to be very, very sad if I find that the hardware can’t support A2DP.
• GPS - this works splendidly but the google maps application really should be better. It doesn’t track you (which is just stupid) so if you’re using it to navigate, you need to scroll the screen as you go, and it doesn’t work along the route to give you turn-by-turn directions. I’m guessing something in the market will do this but there are a gajillion alpha-quality mapping applications that do the same thing and I haven’t bothered trying to sift through them to find something really useful (that content issue is another problem with the market…)

Otherwise it’s pretty much roses!

From unicode 9731

kool aid man says “oh yeah!”