> I definitely would not hold up Google's intent design UI in Android as some sort UI panacea. Yeah, I completely agree with this. Both Google and the hardware

> I definitely would not hold up Google's intent design UI in Android as some sort UI panacea. Yeah, I completely agree with this. Both Google and the hardware vendors have tried many different ways to both select and change the default. They are all terrible, just in different ways. I had a Samsung phone (T-989) that would open a popup after you selected a default app informing you of how to change the default later. It would do this every single time, so picking a default always took at least three taps. It was by far the worst implementation that I have seen. The AOSP behavior in Kit Kat is still the best so far, IMO, but it still isn't friendly at all to non-technical users. It's a hard problem. If it wasn't someone would have solved it already.