Don't lose sight of newer users and scare them off with an overly complicated phone os, with a ridiculous amount of buried settings and no beginning instructions of any kind.
New users really don't want to have to spend hours on the internet reading forums just to use their phones. And contrary to popular belief, people aren't born knowing how to fluently use Android. My wife, father, mother, and MANY other family members, friends, and co-workers avoid Android because it's too complicated with no information given on how to use it when you purchase a new Android phone. I highly suspect that's one of the (many) reasons feature phones are making a comeback.
I build and sell PC's as a hobby, and after owning multiple versions of Android on different phones over the last few years, I still find it irritating that the phone often requires way more of my valuable time than I really want to give to it to keep it working well and doing what I need it to do.
Not to mention all the times I'm asked to help somebody else out.
I think making Android more intuitive and easier to navigate and understand for the basic user (not just power users), would make it much less intimidating, and get Android into more new users hands. And that includes users switching from other brands like iPhones.
New users really don't want to have to spend hours on the internet reading forums just to use their phones. And contrary to popular belief, people aren't born knowing how to fluently use Android. My wife, father, mother, and MANY other family members, friends, and co-workers avoid Android because it's too complicated with no information given on how to use it when you purchase a new Android phone. I highly suspect that's one of the (many) reasons feature phones are making a comeback.
I build and sell PC's as a hobby, and after owning multiple versions of Android on different phones over the last few years, I still find it irritating that the phone often requires way more of my valuable time than I really want to give to it to keep it working well and doing what I need it to do.
Not to mention all the times I'm asked to help somebody else out.
I think making Android more intuitive and easier to navigate and understand for the basic user (not just power users), would make it much less intimidating, and get Android into more new users hands. And that includes users switching from other brands like iPhones.
It seems like an eternity since I started this thread. Unfortunately I was never aware anyone responded to it originally... I would have liked to discuss it a little more with them. I do have to say that with Android 12 I think Google was listening... 12 imo is the most user friendly version of Android yet.
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