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This. User experience is not a real driver for Android, and never has been. It only has to be "good enough". It's open, which I applaud. But you are overly
by alexbell 15y ago
This. User experience is not a real driver for Android, and never has been. It only has to be "good enough". It's open, which I applaud. But you are overly optimistic if you thought publicly traded billion+ dollar carriers and manufacturers weren't eventually going to subvert this.
If I understand correctly, the premiere Google handset is not going to ship with a premiere Google product. In fact, with Google's acquiescence it is going to be actively blocked. Google will bow down to carriers in an effort to maximize their ad dollars.
- georgemcbay 15y agoThe problem isn't that Google is letting carriers (and hardware manufacturers) mess with Android -- they were always free to make Android phones with bloatware and restrictions. What Google (supposedly?) did here that was destructive was let them them mess with a Nexus branded Android phone. No matter how you slice it, marketing value will be lost if this story is true because this will cause the Nexus tag to mean nothing to those who it was originally created to court.
- fpgeek 15y agoI think it really depends on what "this story" is. If the story is that there are local variations on the Galaxy Nexus, well, duh, of course there are! At the very least there will localization differences, regulatory differences (e.g. WiFi channels allowed) and the like, even for a Nexus. To me, the real question is whether or not anything has changed about the defining attributes of a Nexus phone: (a) prompt updates (b) "fastboot oem unlock" Note: I'd add "no bloatware" but given the controversy over the Verizon apps and having come across a developer who considered Gmail bloat (on an Android phone!), I've given up on having a meaningful discussion about it.