11.09.2010 12:51, blindfold пишет:
A marketing or engineering department that can't accept limitations is an
organization that will never ship a product.
Samsung somehow managed to ship the Galaxy S. And this phone has
Google's logo on the back, so it's certified.
I'll only support one camera! Okay.
Not OK! If one wants to compete on the market one has to look at
competitors that already sport two cameras, such as a front-facing
camera. Think many Nokia phones, and Apple's iPhone 4G. (I added
second camera support to my own Nokia Java MIDlet app back in 2006.)
Do you want every Android phone manufacturer to invent and develop
their own proprietary Android API extensions even to just keep up with
existing functionality elsewhere? You encourage fragmentation!
3G networks (at least GSM/UMTS ones) support video calls. Without a
front-facing camera, those are impossible. I'm not sure whether Android
supports video calls, though.
I can imagine interesting niche applications if there was an API for the
front-facing camera.
(And you don't note all of the complexity that comes from going from 1 to 2
-- how is this reflecting in the UI? How does the user decide where they
want their stuff to go? How about telling them how much space is where?
And now you've got to let them move stuff around. I can make a good
argument that multiple SD cards is just intrinsically a crummy user
experience and should be avoided. Heck even one SD card significantly
complicates the UX.)
There are two locaitons already: internal phone memory and the (usually
external) memory card. This is reflected in the UI, starting at least
with 1.5 (Settings -> Memory).
It already creates UI complexity (the "move to sd card" option), and
usability complexity (where did my home screen widgets go?).
What about desktop computers supporting multiple physical disk drives
and logical partitions?
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Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com
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