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…just this one little thing.

When I grew up, there were generally three available sizes at stores: a 6 to 10oz bottle, which were rare, 12 ounce cans, and 2 liter bottles. This was good.

Then sometime during the late 80s/early 90s I recall the first time I saw a 16oz version in a plastic bottle. 4 more ounces, in a pretty plastic container.

From there, they decided we needed 20oz plastic bottles, 8oz cans, which I suppose would have a purpose on an airplane for a smaller size drink – and then – I have recently spotted 14 oz bottles being sold a few cents cheaper than their 20oz companions. 1 liter bottles have cropped up more, and more recently, too (here’s an idea, guys, that’s about 1/5th gallon).

How many different sizes do you need, and really, how damn thirsty can you be? Shouldn’t the idea of fountain drinks be able to quench the thirst enough?

Evidently not. I just found a 1.5 liter bottle introduced by Pepsi.

From WikiPedia:

While CEO of PepsiCo in 2008, Indra Nooyi earned a total compensation of $14,917,701, which included a base salary of $1,300,000, a cash bonus of $2,600,000, stocks granted of $6,428,538, and options granted of $4,382,569.

Where can I sign up to get a cool 15 mil (or heck, I’d settle for 20% as a conceptual person) for promoting the concept of “My own cola’, where you use a vending device to choose just how much you want, and a nice little option to personalize your overpriced sugar water’s label on an option from 4oz to a full gallon of sugar?

After a few months now on a Droid system, I can tell you this: It sucks.

I’m not a huge Apple fanboy, and in fact, rather detested several things about my old iPhone 3GS, but it was still AEONS ahead of this Android 2.2.1 based Sanyo Zio.

Both suck at virtual keyboards, dictionaries, and recognition, but:

Battery Charge on Standby:

Apple:
About 17 hours (new)
Droid:
Lasted 2.2 days before got the ‘plug me in before I die’ notice. Oddly, the battery and wattage was virtually indistinguishable from the 3GS, so I consider this a valid test.

Applications:

Apple:
A ton.
Droid:
A ton, and tons more, even if many of them are worthless, redundant, and/or crashy. (This is most of them)

Stop background applications:

Apple:
Hold down button (3GS+), wait for stuff to rattle, pick off stuff you want to stop.
Droid:
No easy/native way to kill off background tasks, and all third party tools do a shit job unless you root it. Even then, lord knows what’s going on until you go System->Process List, and kill off things.

Application downloads:

Apple:
Get it from Apple Store.
Droid:
Get it from any number of Market/Amazon (if not AT&T), or other sources.

Application crash report:

Apple:
Send Crash Report
Droid:
Click Close/Wait/ForceQuit, or click ‘Report’, fill out report on post, and get browser loading after report sent since it evidently uses same API.

Text Entry:
Apple:
Not too bad, but still needs work.
Droid:
Ability to use Google Voice recognition w/o prior training is amazing. It sucks, but is better than the damn virtual keyboard.