dancing-bass
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Re: What's your opinion about touchwiz ?
Keep in mind, I have little "hands on" time with TouchWiz, most of what follows is mostly based of what I have read rather then personal experience.
There are a number of people who hate TouchWiz, simply because that's what it appears is "cool". Kinda like it's "cool" to hate Apple. (I'll get back to this point later)
TouchWiz visuals DO need an update, I don't think anyone would argue if they updated the look of it to match the Holo (Ice Cream Sandwich and JellyBean) or KitKat look. I agree it's kinda ugly, but personally I'll take function over form. Sure I like things to look nice but they gotta work. If it doesn't work properly I don't care how good it looks! TouchWiz also tends to be really heavy on the phone's resources - high CPU and RAM usage. Part of this is understandable, but at the same time I'm curious. If you look at all the features available on TouchWiz, especially if you consider the Note 3 and all the S-Pen features - it's easy to see why the CPU has to work so hard, but at the same time Samsung is a HUGE company, and they've done really well with the Galaxy series and the Note series. With all the money they make I would think they could figure out how to re-write the code for TouchWiz in order to make it less "hungry" for lack of a better term. Are all those features needed or wanted? No, most people seem to try them out and turn them off... until they want to show off the "cool stuff" their phone can do. Some of them are useful, sure, but not nearly all of them. Many of them are pretty creative solutions to problems that aren't that big a deal - and it seems that even those creative solutions don't work consistently, which is another reason people like to hate on TouchWiz, If all the features worked 100% of the time, I think there'd be less people mocking TouchWiz.
So far, it seems the 3 biggest ones I read about are:
1) Ugly (agreed, but I'd rather drive an ugly car that is amazingly reliable then a beautiful shiny new one that needs constant repairs or maintainence)
2) Hungry (again, I agree. I don't know anyone who would rather have a bloated skin that sucks CPU and battery instead of one that's efficiant -- all features and everything else being equal)
3) Reliability (cool features that only work sometimes aren't that cool - and probably more annoying to try to use then ones that are simpler but work every time)
Lastly, a lot of people buy stuff because other people think it's cool. Or they avoid buying something because other people say it's not cool or it sucks or whatever. Nothing to do with appearance, functionality, reliability, or usefulness to the individual - but rather based off what people on the interwebz say is "cool" or "not cool". Going back to my first thought on Apple.
See, iOS is pretty awesome in and of itself. Its smooth, fast, reliable, and pretty dang efficient. The hardware (the phone) and the software (iOS) are designed to work together - instead of taking the base OS, slapping a skin and features on it, then building a phone that can hopefully keep up to it, which is what Samsung does with Android. But, a lot of Android fans seem to hate on iOS because it's cool to do - nothing to do with how good iOS is. Same thing has been happening with TouchWiz for the last year or so. It has become cool to hate on TouchWiz (and Samsung to a degree as well) simply because it's "cool" to do so. Nothing to do with the creativity in all the features, or anything else but simply because it's "cool"
Now, I will say Samsung could do a lot with it. They could update the look, re-code it for efficiency, and realize that consumers would rather have fewer features that work consistently then MORE features that work 68% of the time. Doing that would get a lot more people back onto Samsung's side - but the fact remains that people will always side with one product or service and "hate" another, simply because at that time product A is cooler then product B. Nothing to do with usefulness or features or reliability, but simply because by general consensus product A is cooler then product B. Look at clothing - a t-shirt is a t-shirt, yet if it has the label from Brand A rather then Brand B, somehow it's "cooler" - even if both t-shirts come out of the same factory!
Anyway - I've rambled on this far more then I thought I would. And just so you know where I stand, my current phone is a Galaxy Nexus - and I'm seriously considering a Samsung (with Touchwiz) as my next device. (Of course it depends on what's available and the reviews of any new devices). I've enjoyed the simplicity of a Nexus, but at the same time there's a lot of functionality that I've been missing that personally I think should have been part of the base OS.
Keep in mind, I have little "hands on" time with TouchWiz, most of what follows is mostly based of what I have read rather then personal experience.
There are a number of people who hate TouchWiz, simply because that's what it appears is "cool". Kinda like it's "cool" to hate Apple. (I'll get back to this point later)
TouchWiz visuals DO need an update, I don't think anyone would argue if they updated the look of it to match the Holo (Ice Cream Sandwich and JellyBean) or KitKat look. I agree it's kinda ugly, but personally I'll take function over form. Sure I like things to look nice but they gotta work. If it doesn't work properly I don't care how good it looks! TouchWiz also tends to be really heavy on the phone's resources - high CPU and RAM usage. Part of this is understandable, but at the same time I'm curious. If you look at all the features available on TouchWiz, especially if you consider the Note 3 and all the S-Pen features - it's easy to see why the CPU has to work so hard, but at the same time Samsung is a HUGE company, and they've done really well with the Galaxy series and the Note series. With all the money they make I would think they could figure out how to re-write the code for TouchWiz in order to make it less "hungry" for lack of a better term. Are all those features needed or wanted? No, most people seem to try them out and turn them off... until they want to show off the "cool stuff" their phone can do. Some of them are useful, sure, but not nearly all of them. Many of them are pretty creative solutions to problems that aren't that big a deal - and it seems that even those creative solutions don't work consistently, which is another reason people like to hate on TouchWiz, If all the features worked 100% of the time, I think there'd be less people mocking TouchWiz.
So far, it seems the 3 biggest ones I read about are:
1) Ugly (agreed, but I'd rather drive an ugly car that is amazingly reliable then a beautiful shiny new one that needs constant repairs or maintainence)
2) Hungry (again, I agree. I don't know anyone who would rather have a bloated skin that sucks CPU and battery instead of one that's efficiant -- all features and everything else being equal)
3) Reliability (cool features that only work sometimes aren't that cool - and probably more annoying to try to use then ones that are simpler but work every time)
Lastly, a lot of people buy stuff because other people think it's cool. Or they avoid buying something because other people say it's not cool or it sucks or whatever. Nothing to do with appearance, functionality, reliability, or usefulness to the individual - but rather based off what people on the interwebz say is "cool" or "not cool". Going back to my first thought on Apple.
See, iOS is pretty awesome in and of itself. Its smooth, fast, reliable, and pretty dang efficient. The hardware (the phone) and the software (iOS) are designed to work together - instead of taking the base OS, slapping a skin and features on it, then building a phone that can hopefully keep up to it, which is what Samsung does with Android. But, a lot of Android fans seem to hate on iOS because it's cool to do - nothing to do with how good iOS is. Same thing has been happening with TouchWiz for the last year or so. It has become cool to hate on TouchWiz (and Samsung to a degree as well) simply because it's "cool" to do so. Nothing to do with the creativity in all the features, or anything else but simply because it's "cool"
Now, I will say Samsung could do a lot with it. They could update the look, re-code it for efficiency, and realize that consumers would rather have fewer features that work consistently then MORE features that work 68% of the time. Doing that would get a lot more people back onto Samsung's side - but the fact remains that people will always side with one product or service and "hate" another, simply because at that time product A is cooler then product B. Nothing to do with usefulness or features or reliability, but simply because by general consensus product A is cooler then product B. Look at clothing - a t-shirt is a t-shirt, yet if it has the label from Brand A rather then Brand B, somehow it's "cooler" - even if both t-shirts come out of the same factory!
Anyway - I've rambled on this far more then I thought I would. And just so you know where I stand, my current phone is a Galaxy Nexus - and I'm seriously considering a Samsung (with Touchwiz) as my next device. (Of course it depends on what's available and the reviews of any new devices). I've enjoyed the simplicity of a Nexus, but at the same time there's a lot of functionality that I've been missing that personally I think should have been part of the base OS.
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