As an advocate of those not present (perhaps a euphemism for being argumentative), he has a point but he is not getting the attribution right.
The google competition process has limited the diversity of applications and that does help put fewer differences in front of people, but that same competition has reduced the number of reusable elements spontaneously provided my the community. It is kind of open source with an incentive for fences. I expected the utility of location based ring tones to be on a board somewhere in February. A much enhanced version is now available to customers but it is not open source. Incented competition has folks playing cards close to their vests making it harder to reuse an interface to make a standard UI. Google's widgets are good, but I don't see a google sponsored place for externally written android widgets similar to what they have provided for desktop developers. Good but limited. A part of getting to a good and uniform UI is crossing diversity with use. I think that messy evolutionary process is making the author uncomfortable in comparison to the iPhone that looks more like ID. On Sep 3, 11:39 am, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also his comparison with Linux on the desktop is completely invalid, > since Android does have one, very rich, widget set, with a consistent > look. This won't change, and application developers are encouraged to > use it to have a consistent look and behavior. > > Of course we can't -force- app developers to use the standard widgets, > and there will certainly be ones who want to do their own custom look > for one reason or another. Just like desktop operating systems, both > windows and mac. > > Probably the biggest criticism you could make of Android is how easy > we make it for developers to supply their own custom imagery for the > standard widgets, making it a lot easier for them to do a custom UI > skin if that is what they want. (Though on the plus side, if they do > a custom UI this way, it is only the appearance that changes, because > they are using the standard widgets all of the behavior remains the > same.) > > On Sep 3, 8:57 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:10 AM, jtaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "I love Open Source. It's a great way to develop software. But it has > > > its weaknesses. One of the main weaknesses is consistency. Take a look > > > at these Android apps. When you look at these applications for the > > > Google backed smartphone OS, what you'll see is a complete lack of > > > consistency in the look and feel of applications." > > > This is a bogus argument. The applications that he is pointing to are not > > open-source. And neither is Android (as of yet). If it is inconsistent, it > > has nothing to do with open source. > > > Shane --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
