Article: Steve Jobs taking shots at competition

[Gadzair]

My latest blog post talking about Steve Job's criticism of the Galaxy Tab and his surprisingly accurate depiction of developers like me:

Steve Jobs taking shots at Samsung

Makani

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

I think he is starting to feel a little bit of heat in the area of competition. LOL

 

[goliath602]

Android>apple

 

[sniffs]

Steve's correct tho.. all these companies are going to do is splinter and ruin Android as an experience..

 

[dtboos]

Steve's correct tho.. all these companies are going to do is splinter and ruin Android as an experience..

Thats like saying PC's are ruining the Windows experience. They aren't. It just means you have choice of different machines, different price ranges, different hardware ect. The software will remain mostly the same; and if Gingerbread overhauls the UI, very much the same.

You can run most Windows programs on any Windows machine, but yes if you want to run a new graphic heavy game you may need a more powerful hardware package. Thats always available if you desire it.

 

[Prof-KOS]

Gingerbread overhauling the UI won't help. Do you think the only reason that manufacturers have their own UI's is because they don't like the Android one? It's to differentiate themselves. Unless Google is willing to force manufacturers to use Vanilla Android, those devices will be few and far between.

 

[sniffs]

Thats like saying PC's are ruining the Windows experience. They aren't. It just means you have choice of different machines, different price ranges, different hardware ect. The software will remain mostly the same; and if Gingerbread overhauls the UI, very much the same.

You can run most Windows programs on any Windows machine, but yes if you want to run a new graphic heavy game you may need a more powerful hardware package. Thats always available if you desire it.

Thing is though.. you don't have manufacturers putting their own UI overtop of the OS, or them leaving out features..

Imagine getting a Dell with a custom UI overtop of Windows 7..and then imagine Microsoft putting out Sp2 but then you having to wait 6-9 months for Dell to make sure their UI works with Sp2... <- This is exactly what is happening with Android.

And by leaving out features, what happened to threaded calling in FroYo on my DroidX? it's nowhere to be found.

I agree with Steve that the underlying user experience of Android should remain the same.. Give us the OPTION to run a carrier UI.. the carriers are taking Android down a slippery slope of locking down features/hardware that you own.

It's not Google that is ruining things for users/developers.. it's the carriers! and unless something is done, it's just going to get worse.

 

[Prof-KOS]

Thing is though.. you don't have manufacturers putting their own UI overtop of the OS, or them leaving out features..

Imagine getting a Dell with a custom UI overtop of Windows 7..and then imagine Microsoft putting out Sp2 but then you having to wait 6-9 months for Dell to make sure their UI works with Sp2... <- This is exactly what is happening with Android.

And by leaving out features, what happened to threaded calling in FroYo on my DroidX? it's nowhere to be found.

I agree with Steve that the underlying user experience of Android should remain the same.. Give us the OPTION to run a carrier UI.. the carriers are taking Android down a slippery slope of locking down features/hardware that you own.

It's not Google that is ruining things for users/developers.. it's the carriers! and unless something is done, it's just going to get worse.

I agree wholeheartedly, but I've made my spiel in two different threads in this forum. Most recently yesterday. This is Google's responsibility as the brand owner.

 

[dtboos]

I think if google creates a nice enough UI overhaul, then hardware manufacturers will have to differentiate on hardware and limit their "UI overlays" to small applications / effects which can be turned off. But I am an optomist. The fact that these overlays are causing updates to be delayed so long is definitely an issue for the consumer (why I still have my N1).

I really do hope they all at the very least give you the option of running Vanilla Android.