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You're a hacker purist. Most consumers are not. Many actually like the features that Touchwiz brings. It's actually interesting in that "pure, unadulterated" A
by huggyface 15y ago
You're a hacker purist. Most consumers are not. Many actually like the features that Touchwiz brings.
It's actually interesting in that "pure, unadulterated" Android has very heavily borrowed from Sense UI, TouchWiz, and Motoblur. Those custom skins were what really helped move the platform forward.
- commandar 15y agoI don't know. As somebody that was a day-one G1 customer, I think the influence of Mattias Duarte coming on board has had far more impact on the platform than any of these OEM skins. You can see the influence of Duarte's previous work at Palm all over ICS, far more so than any of the custom skins. What I have certainly seen is manufacturers breaking baked-in functionality on Android trying to differentiate themselves. Moto managed to break both manual Exchange configuration and Facebook sync on my Droid 4, for example. It's not like those are obscure functions nobody uses.
- estel 15y agoI'm not sure in which update you're referring to Facebook sync being "broken", but this was purposefully removed from stock by Google in Android 2.3.3.
- fpgeek 15y agoIn fact, that argument is laid out in more detail here: http://androidandme.com/2012/02/news/why-androids-custom-uis-are-important-to-the-future-of-the-platform/ http://androidandme.com/2012/02/news/why-androids-custom-uis...