If you put it in the market and users find it doesn't work well it tarnishes your brand and dents user confidence.
I think it's a good think that Google made the call not to make it available on quality grounds, as that can only help Androids overall image. Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 23 Oct 2009, at 20:36, Xaroth wrote: > > That's more than understandable, but what confuses me, is that there's > not an option available (market?) for people who are interested in it, > to download and try it for themselves.. currently it's mentioned on > numerous locations (the donut trailer for one), described as one of > the features of the phone... yet a large part of the consumers won't > be able to use that feature. > > Now don't get me wrong, I know that the common user won't ever use or > need it, but it's a bit annoying as a customer who prefers to use it, > won't have it, and is forced to resort to 'dodgy' methods to enable > it.. while the most simple sollution would be to not install it by > default, yet leave it in the market for those who do want it, so they > can install it (with or without an added warning about it?)... > > Regards, > > Xaroth > > On Oct 23, 8:38 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: >> The problem with voice dialing is that the speech recognition engine >> that it uses only contains a language model for US English, at least >> in the version that was open-sourced by the company that developed >> it. >> Google's tests showed that this model didn't even do a good enough >> job >> at recognizing UK English to justify enabling it in UK (and certainly >> not in the rest of the world). >> >> JBQ >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Xaroth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hiya, >> >>> When I bought my HTC magic, it was advertised as shown on the HTC >>> site, which included some 'missing' features like Voice Search and >>> Voice Dial (probably some others to, but I'm currently only >>> interested >>> in these two).. >>> However, both Voice search and Voice dial appear not to be available >>> for my country (NL), I ringed Vodafone about it and they merely >>> stated >>> that they weren't responsible for it, as it was a 'google >>> experience' >>> phone.. >>> Now I found that these missing apps are for every dutch HTC Magic >>> sold, and from searching on other VF sites,it appears that this is >>> something affecting most european users. >> >>> Now you might have guessed the question here.. Is there any specific >>> reason why it's not enabled, and is there a possibility to have it >>> enabled? .. I prefer to keep my original rom so no, I'm not likely >>> to >>> go switching over to any of the other popular custom roms just for >>> these two features >> >>> Thanks in advance >> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru >> Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google. >> >> Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private >> will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no >> further >> warning. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
