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Dec 09, 09 - 01:42 pm Comment from: M

Uh oh--Bloodbath!

Dec 09, 09 - 01:43 pm Comment from: Ray

Man can you imagine how much money Mot must of spent to get the Droid on the top of this list? How many droids have they sold?

Just my$0.02

Dec 09, 09 - 01:46 pm Comment from: Macdoc

So who's Time's Man of the Year? Hillary Clinton...

Time still out of touch as ever...

I trust TIME to provide literate, objective analysis of technology matters almost as much as I trust their coverage of political issues, which is to say not at all. The only more useless "news" rag may be Newsweek, but it's a real horse-race to the bottom.

Dec 09, 09 - 01:48 pm Comment from: HMCIV

So to summarize the accolades that got it to first place:

- Touchscreen
- Good Enough Keyboard
- Verizon
- Possible to compare to iPhone

Talk about raising the bar!

1st? Familiarity sounds right on. Time ranked the 3Gs at #4 yet they also have a list of Top Ten iPhone Apps. Huh?

From my cold, dead hand.

Dec 09, 09 - 01:51 pm Comment from: madgunde

I'd posit that the Droid the the gadget of the year in TIME's eyes because it's the phone released in 2009 that has the best chance at offering the iPhone any kind of competition, no matter how weak that competition ends up being. In their view, the cell industry desperately needs to start putting up some kind of fight.

I'd probably agree with that, but I'm perfectly happy letting Apple juggernaut it's way to first place in the cell industry first.

an overpriced stylish fan beats the iphone?

These clueless asswipes will name Hussien, the maker of world peace, man of the year.

Dec 09, 09 - 01:54 pm Comment from: Beowulf

If it's the first credible challenge to the iPhone how can it be ranked #1 over the iPhone??

Dec 09, 09 - 01:55 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Times up....

Its like Newsweek's college rankings. They have a different winner every year to create interest.

Dec 09, 09 - 01:56 pm Comment from: TowerTone

...for them to ever regain credibility, but they continue to prove it.

Whomever writes these MDN Takes is rapier smart.

MDN sliced TIME apart with ease.

Makes you wonder how the Droid overshadows the iPhone...... just try using one and its a laughable comparison.

Dec 09, 09 - 02:12 pm Comment from: breeze

If time had any credibility left it's all gone after this one

Dec 09, 09 - 02:18 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

How is the Droid better then the iPhone beyond the smut Application?

George Orwell had it absolutely and undeniably right: Doublethink rules.

A politician with absolutely NO international governmental experience or record of accomplishments wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And then that same politician sends 30,000+ soldiers into a distant battlefield where a great number of them will be killed and maimed . . . and an even greater number of their foes will be dispatched unto Paradise without a second thought.

And now a communication device with absolutely no record of user adoption or in-the-field usability is given top honors by a political rag, ostensibly just to stir things up a bit.

Marketing is truly everything: Be slick. Be shiny. Promise the right things, even if there's no way you can deliver on any of them.

Alas, Babylon!

Dec 09, 09 - 02:34 pm Comment from: m159

I hope Time editors enjoy their free test phones and all-expense paid Motorola "conference" in Bali.

Check and see how many times Time has put Obama on their cover... go back to when he started running for election.
`nuff said.

@Uther: with reasoning like, you must work for Time

The trouble with top ten lists is that a lot of them are based on who will spend the most $ in advertising over the next year with the company presenting the top ten. TIME lost their credibility long ago.

Dec 09, 09 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Jim W

Well, Time has one thing right, and it is the reason I STILL don't have an I phone. Get the darn thing on Verizon! AT&T;truly stinks where Iive in Hawaii, and Verizon has much better coverage where I travel on the mainland. AT&T;unlimited seems to be going away. Isn't it about time to open this device up to the largest carrier in the USA (and others)? Or do we have to wait for the FCC to do it? There is silicon available to operate on both standards, or an iPhone just for Verizon. Apple would certainly sell enough to justify one. Until this happens I'll just stick to my basic $39 Verizon "phone only". Help!

Dec 09, 09 - 02:49 pm Comment from: Regular Reader

Why is nobody commenting on #576 on their list, the Zune HD?

Droid might be the top new "draft" prospect for 2010, but it still might be a bust for the users and telcos that decide to pick it.

The narrow screen of the DROID makes it extraordinarily difficult to type in portrait mode on the software keyboard... unfortunately this is necessary for interactive applications and most everything on the WEB. The DROID is an epic design fail because on paper it looks good, but it is really hard to use in real life. The iPhone is a much simpler phone to use and much more practical than the droid.

I left Verizon the day iPhone came out and just two weeks ago I upgraded (my entire family 5 iphones) to the 3GS and I am kicking myself for not doing it sooner. It is smoking fast compared to the 1st gen. I played with a Droid the other day and unless you are a serious propeller head I do not see the allure. The thing was counter-intuitive and a PITA. It was wholly unimpressive.

Dec 09, 09 - 03:13 pm Comment from: Predrag

iPhone seems to permeate other top ten lists as well. In "Top ten magazine covers", NewYorker takes no. 2 specifically because the artist, Jorge Colombo, painted his work on an iPhone application Brushes. They point out the iPhone app as an amazing fact, since NewYorker has extremely high standards for their cover art.

Dec 09, 09 - 03:15 pm Comment from: John E

Time knows they'll have to give the Apple Tablet top honors next year, so this year it just had to be anybody else.

I had subscribed toTime for 15 years but recently dropped them. It was getting thinner and thinner with stupid things like this top 10. If you are starving for money, you lose your integrity apparently.

Dec 09, 09 - 03:33 pm Comment from: Jubei

@Regular Reader

Because the Zune HD will be #1 next year on TIME Magazines list.

Well Time likes Obummer and the Droid.... both are lame duds

Dec 09, 09 - 03:52 pm Comment from: toby

I love the iPhone BUT, with two years without an exterior update...

It's starting to lose some cool points...sorry, but it's a fact of life.

Dec 09, 09 - 03:58 pm Comment from: Deus Ex Technica

Time magazine (and others) will feature Apple prominently next year when the new Apple tablet breathes fresh life into the periodical publishing industry.

Then, in a year or so, once their collective asses are saved, the same industry will begin to deride Apple, as they begin to understand just how much control Apple will have over the new publishing paradigm.

It happened in music, it's going to happen with film & video entertainment, and it will happen with publishing.

Don't doubt me - iCal me.

Dec 09, 09 - 04:11 pm Comment from: Amazin1

"Everybody likes Android, Google's open-source smartphone operating system." WTF, I must be a nobody!! Hyperbole again from the media and it is absolute outrageous bullshit! Who are these everybody's? The entire bathroom cleaning staff at Time?

Dec 09, 09 - 04:26 pm Comment from: cartoonasaur

"best of all, the Droid is on Verizon's best-of-breed 3G network."

Best of breed? WTF? Their tech is older and slower than AT&T;'s. Time, put down the crack pipe NOW and stop shilling for Verizon, please!

Hahahahahahah. Wow. That just might be the most brutally obvious advertisement I've ever seen. "Everybody likes Android", "Kick-ass smartphone", "best of breed 3G network".

Straight from Motorola's marketing department to the pages of TIME. I wonder how much they paid for it? I'm betting it cost a pretty penny, and I'm also betting that if they're willing to sink this low, Motorola must be desperate from flatlining Droid sales.

You just don't pay TIME to give your product a blowjob because it's doing well.

MW: never. As in never ever.

Dec 09, 09 - 04:45 pm Comment from: NCIceman

The droid is new, the 3GS is just a new model of iPhone. I bet that is their reasoning. Side by side the iPhone is clearly the better device.

I found it interesting that the Nook was #2 and the Kindle was nowhere to be seen.

Dec 09, 09 - 04:50 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

A certain tech magazine from India had a shootout between the iPhone 3GS and the Motorola Droid and the Droid won hands down. No, I won't give them hits by including a URL.

Since the iPhone 3GS isn't sold in India yet, AFAIK, and neither is the Droid, I'm sure that they just compared tech specs. Oh and 10,000 Android apps equalled 100,000 iPhone Apps once the fart Apps were eliminated. You know, the usual BS.

But still, it was one win for the Droid.

Admit it, Apple needs the competition. It will only make the iPhone better. The Droid has some great features, and it's NOT WinCE or Windows Blowbil. So, more power to them. You listening Apple?

I don't know what #9 is but it sounds like a wanker's best friend...

Dec 09, 09 - 05:19 pm Comment from: Deus Ex Technica

@dbcoyle

Apple has the unique ability to continue making their products better and better, whether there is competition or not.

Who was Apple competing with when they created the iPod? The iPhone? Apple wasn't the first to bring these to market, but the product they did bring could in no way be defined by the products that existed before. And even as Apple continues to improve the iPod, the competition was spending all their effort to catch up.

So, while Apple has openly welcomed competition, they have demonstrated over and over that they will continue to innovate and exceed everyone's expectations without it.

Heh, Motorola made another top ten list here:
The Ten Brands That Will Disappear In 2010
http://247wallst.com/2009/12/02/the-ten-brands-that-will-disappear-in-2010/

Time also picked our awful president so go figure! UnF'ingbelievable!!! THE DROID?!! Come on!!!

Time has never been very tech orientated — this article proves it!

Or Motorola paid a good deal that position!

Dec 09, 09 - 06:49 pm Comment from: It's About Time

At this rate, I expect Time to announce next week the PPC G3 as the "processor of the year"

The powers that be have alot of money to waste

I guess this list is based on tv commercials , friggin idiots, the droid is a dud, everyone knows it, and putting it at the top of your list won't change what it is

Dec 09, 09 - 08:49 pm Comment from: Geo B

@Jim W:

Still think it's unlikely that Apple makes an iPhone just for Verizon. Not enough return on investment to make a separate phone for one US provider when the phone they are making now works for their existing US provider and pretty mush any other worldwide provider that wants it.

Could happen, but doubt it. Yes there is silicon that does both but why bother?

Dec 09, 09 - 09:31 pm Comment from: jjjj

Harsh review of The Nook - "dual-screen mess"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091209/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_nook

Dec 10, 09 - 12:15 am Comment from: tbsteph

The Nook #2 gadget for 2009? This alone makes their list a major joke.