Re:Android Becomes Top Mobile OS In The US
by ergo98 on Thursday August 05, 2010 @08:41AM
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>2.2 is nice, but it's very telling that most people immediately go and download LauncherPro
Most is quite an exaggeration.
>But it reminds me heavily of the differences between Windows and OS X; Windows is functional but not enjoyable, OS X is both.
Windows 7 is thoroughly enjoyable. I'm hardly a Microsoft booster.
It's interesting that several of the apps you mentioned, highlighting the strength of the iOS platform, to me demonstrate the weakness of it: They're chrome and gloss and not much more. If I want a conversion app, the last thing I want is a giant graphical wheel, but that seems to be the way many iOS, and OSX for that matter, apps go: Take some trivial, trivial task and provide a minimal solution, but coating it with just enough chrome that people will call it "polish", while they hoard the spit-and-rub apps that they'll never actually use.
I pray that that sort of interface hubris never migrates to Android, and if it leaves some people complaining about the lack of supposed polish, so be it.
Most is quite an exaggeration.
>But it reminds me heavily of the differences between Windows and OS X; Windows is functional but not enjoyable, OS X is both.
Windows 7 is thoroughly enjoyable. I'm hardly a Microsoft booster.
It's interesting that several of the apps you mentioned, highlighting the strength of the iOS platform, to me demonstrate the weakness of it: They're chrome and gloss and not much more. If I want a conversion app, the last thing I want is a giant graphical wheel, but that seems to be the way many iOS, and OSX for that matter, apps go: Take some trivial, trivial task and provide a minimal solution, but coating it with just enough chrome that people will call it "polish", while they hoard the spit-and-rub apps that they'll never actually use.
I pray that that sort of interface hubris never migrates to Android, and if it leaves some people complaining about the lack of supposed polish, so be it.