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... there’s nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the
by MrScruff 16y ago
... there’s nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the handset makers, testing the hypothesis that these things are central to Apple’s success.
Which is to say, it would be sort of surprising, but not that much, if this time next year, dirt-cheap iPhones were competing against Androids that push the user-experience lever farther than Apple or anyone else ever has.
I keep hearing this argument that Google simply has to assemble a crack team of UI experts and they'll inevitably match or surpass Apple's offerings.
Presumably Apple will equally at some point assemble a search rock-star team and push the search level farther than Google or anyone else ever has.
- trotsky 16y agoI agree, there are obviously elements of the iPhone OS user experience that no other high tech company has a chance of ever matching.
- ergo98 16y ago>I keep hearing this argument that Google simply has to assemble a crack team of UI experts and they'll inevitably match or surpass Apple's offerings. Android is already matching iOS in many areas, exceeding it in some (a superior, and more functional, notification system, and a much better messaging system, though that is subjective). With each iteration it keeps improving and improving, not by changing actual function but mostly just by decorating in a manner that iPhone users are more accustomed.