Twitter's new official Android app, announced today, only works on Android phones running 2.1 or newer versions of the Android operating system

I already can't run Twidroid on the MyTouch. The G1 I bought on release day might as well have been a brick by month 7. Now I won't be able to run Twitter's official Android client?

That's two bleeding edge HTC/Google smart phones rendered nearly useless in just 19 months.

Let me get this straight; I'm paying around $85/month taxes in. I've gotten the hottest phone on the network twice, only to find it nearly useless at the end of year one. And to add insult to injury, T-Mobile wants more from me to upgrade to a Nexus One than they do from a walk-in customer -- and my contract expired 8 months ago.

Meanwhile, the iPod Touch I'm using was bought on the very same day as the G1 -- right next door, in fact. There is little -- if anything -- in the current AppStore that iPod Touch won't do.

It doesn't take a Stanford grad to figure out that Android is already the most backwards incompatible and fragmented "open" OS in history, or why it's only really popular with mobile carriers -- rather than mobile customers.

To put it simply; Fail.