3 ms·

I am actually against this. Regardless of how nice this is, this goes against the OS nature of Android. HTC is treating android as a free (beer) operating syste

I am actually against this. Regardless of how nice this is, this goes against the OS nature of Android. HTC is treating android as a free (beer) operating system (bla bla bla microsoft/apple). But when they realize that their phones are not top notch, they still want to proceed like MS did, with vendor-lock-in. The point of Android is that its open. If you feel its missing 4g, send your impl to the team and it will be open sourced with everything else, if you feel it's missing stylus support, send that too. Etc. This way any phone supporting the hardware reqs will be able to take advantage of it. Instead HTC is taking many many months to port their POS software to the new Android version. In the end their software sucks and any benefit it has is diluted in the shit. However they could have easily contributed any benefits to the main project and just helped out which is the goal of OS.

mrich 15y ago
Why would they help out the other, competing Android manufacturers by giving their pretty good UI for free to them?
darklajid 15y ago
I totally agree. Not only is Sense trying to create a different Android environment (visually), it's also not really useful most of the time. I heard that this improved a lot in the last versions (my last Sense phone was a HTC Hero and no, I'll certainly won't buy from them again). My brother is satisfied. Still - this adds to the fragmentation. Trying to make it available (in a poor form imo, with these code drops) is just a try to strengthen the self-made split in the Android UI world. "Please use this SDK to support our branding". What?
2muchcoffeeman 15y ago
The point of Android is to pursue a different product strategy to Apple/MS that will also make loads of money.