{"id":3554,"date":"2011-08-05T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2014-03-13T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:27:01","slug":"android-development-pulls-hot-chicks-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"Android development pulls hot chicks.  Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3554\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Android development pulls hot chicks.  Who knew?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-sex","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}