Android development pulls hot chicks.  Who knew?
<p>There I was, within earshot of the smoker&#8217;s bench outside the front entrance of the hotel hosting the World Boardgaming Championships, when I overheard the word &#8220;Android&#8221; from the three college students sitting on and around it, who I mentally tagged the Guy, the Gamer-Girl, and the Hottie.  I moved a bit closer, to polite conversational distance for a stranger, and when they noticed me asked if they were talking about smartphones.</p>
<p>One of them (I think Gamer-Girl) said &#8220;Yes&#8221; and within about ten seconds I learned that they all had Androids and were huge fans, and had been discussing apps and fun things to do with the device. I smiled and told them I&#8217;d written some of the code in their phones.</p>
<p>The Hottie, a slender but pleasantly curved redhead in a tight black dress and fishnets, sat up a bit straighter and asked me what parts I&#8217;d written. I settled as usual for explaining that I wrote significant pieces of the code Android uses to throw image bits on its display. The hottie did a silent &#8220;Oooh!&#8221; and gave me dilated pupils and a flash of rather nice cleavage.</p>
<p>So yes, geeky guys, Android development <em>can</em> pull hot chicks.  Well, it was either that or my rugged masculine charm; you get to choose your theory.</p>
<p>I had to run off to lunch, but I did learn one other interesting thing during this interlude.  When I said that I was pleased that Android is attracting such loyalty from people who aren&#8217;t techies, they assured me that all their friends either have Androids or are planning to get them.</p>
<p>This being WBC, my sample was probably a bit above average in IQ and likely to lean towards early adoption.  Still, it makes me suspect the iPhone is losing its grip on one of its core markets.</p>
