Apparently Android sucks

Cellular-news has this story from the Dow Jones Newswire, in which a number of developers bitch about the quality of Android.

Complaints about new software aren't unusual, but a sizeable number of developers - the very people that Google hopes will add the bells and whistles to its mobile phone software - are complaining that the tool kit is riddled with coding errors, some of them shockingly basic. Even worse, they said, is that Google has been largely unresponsive to their feedback and some observers suggested the very credibility of Google's mobile phone initiative is on the line.

Google has emphasized that what we currently have is a first-look, not a finished product. In true Google fashion, the SDK is beta.

On the other hand, the first round of the Developer challenge is coming up, and we've been led to believe that we'll have the first Android handsets released in, oh, about six months' time. If the complaints in the above article are valid, and if Google wants a quality release when this sucker goes live, perhaps they need to step up, respond to the developers, and fix the issue.

But is there really any substance here? The article states that the number of developers that are complaining is "sizeable", a term that at worst meaningless and at best ambiguous.

Complainers are always gonna be complainers. Had a dude at work like that; "This sucks, that sucks." One day he just stopped coming to work. All they found was his left thumb.