rallat to take away

1- UX is totally subjective to the author - first error.

2- OTA mandatory is not true in almost all android phones

3- Android market is getting better apps and the top devs make apps for both platforms iOS and Android

Totally stupid things from an Apple fanboy or maybe a designer

mnmal:

A fantastic post by Justin Lowery. It’ll be here for 24 hs, then it’s gone. Read it and agree with me on something I’ve been saying for a couple of years now.

The main point regarding Google & Android is one that’s been made ad-nauseum on the web: they simply do not care about users or user experience at all. They consist of a group of very nerdy, engineering-driven programmers who simply cannot relate with normal people. Their products reflect that in their complexity, ugliness, inconsistent design, and very rough, stuttery interfaces. Sure, you can hyper-configurate your Droid to do X when at GPS coordinates Y & Z during hours A & B, but how’s the everyday experience? Awful. Miserable. Pathetic.

A quick look at most of the Android theming forums will show you exactly why Apple locks things down the way they do. To quote someone from a long time ago — “No one every lost money underestimating the intelligence or taste of the American people.”

Nearly all the Android modifications and themes make the phone less stable, more buggy, and in most cases, a downright hideous sight to behold. The same could be said of Jailbroken iPhones. The people really haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. Why should Apple (or Google for that matter) give license to a bunch of clueless 12 year old amateurs, while removing it from a carefully constructed team of world-class designers and developers? It makes no sense.

In all fairness and reality, every Android handset maker out there blocks rooting and modding to the best of their ability, and in most cases does a better job than Apple at discouraging and/or preventing it.

Android is not any more “open” than iOS is. For example, look at the hardware chip in the Droid X that checks the ROM for modifications before boot-up, or the fact that all their Android devices have “mandatory OTA updates” that are forced down their users throats, which destroy all rooting or modding work done once they install themselves in the background, without the user’s permission! Apple would never conceive of such a thing as a “mandatory update.” It took weeks for the modding community to bypass that. Apple has no such precautions in place, and it typically takes less than 24 hours to root the latest iOS releases.

I suppose you could say that it’s a taste thing. However, I do believe (and could list countless articles from all over the web that vouch for this) that if you set Android and iOS in front of a board of industry experts in the fields of UI/UX and iA, and asked them to give an honest analysis of the two systems, that iOS would come out firmly on top. Google simply does not care about their users. They’re in exactly the same position Microsoft has been in for years with desktop Windows. You aren’t their customer. Verizon and Motorola are. You’re merely an inconvenient side-effect to them. In Apple’s view, you as the customer, and your experience while using their products are everything. That’s something that emanates from everything they do.

The rat-infested flea market that the Android Marketplace has become is a subject for another post, one which I hope to write soon.