waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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* dsandler has a couple of painters fix some stuff in his house <dsandler> They asked what I did, and I said, “You ever seen…

January 27th, 2004

* dsandler has a couple of painters fix some stuff in his house

<dsandler> They asked what I did, and I said, “You ever seen one of these? Palm handhelds? Palm Pilots?” (holding one up)

<dsandler> “Uh, no, not really.”

<dsandler> So, you know, we still have more potential customers out there.

<dsandler> :)

<Nash> When they finally catch on to it, they’re gonna realize they want a PDA that’s a cell phone … so they don’t have to carry both.

<dsandler> I should have mentioned that.

<dsandler> If I had a smartphone I would definitely have demonstrated it :)

<daveb> When I went back to the back woods of NY, nobody knew what that little computer I had was.

<daveb> The breadbasket of america is still too worried about bread to notice.

<dsandler> Let them eat Palms.

* dsandler . o O ( that was both allegorical and grotesque )

<ctate> hee hee

<ctate> dsadeler

<ctate> (or, less obscurely, the Marquis dsandler)

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