Android Eclair - yet another dessert named OS by Android
Anand Rajaram, an OfficeDrop co-founder and our chief product officer, just wrote a piece for Techrepublic called “10 Things I Hate About Android.” Of course, not to be totally negative on Android, the subtitle is “and some work arounds that help.”
OfficeDrop has now released a series of mobile apps on different platforms – our iPhone PDF app, iPad App, Android Scanner App, and the PaperPort Anywhere iOS and Android apps. Anand has led the charge on all of these mobile applications. It was a lot of work! And he also has gotten a pretty deep view into the development and marketing side of these different mobile platforms.
Android is now the leading smartphone mobile application, selling more units than RIM or Apple. But it’s still got a long way to go before it’s an app developers paradise. There are some great signs that Google is taking the problems with the platform seriously, such as getting handset makers and carriers to agree to more frequent OS updates. And Google is pouring resources into the operating system as well.
But there are significant issues with Android. Anand goes into his top 10 in this article. This includes things that are nightmares for developers and QA people, like the software and hardware fragmentation, security issues, and the problem of getting found in Google Android marketplace (fyi, here is OfficeDrop’s Android app in the Google Android Marketplace! Now you can find it!)
Gregory Huang, a well known reporter for Xconomy Boston, sat down with OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni recently to discuss OfficeDrop’s recent growth, partnership with Nuance and our plans for the rest of the year. He has just published a good piece on the conversation called 
OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, recently had a piece published on TechCrunch called “
