On Jan 27, 3:40 am, Zero <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah, flamewar time ! ... > it's ok if you prefer the way apple designs things over everything else, i do > not. > so please, don't question valid design decisions made on other platforms > simply because they are not to the liking of the apple fan boys.
I'm not interested in a flamewar, and please don't attribute things to me that I didn't say. I don't believe that everyone must do things exactly the way Apple does (after all, I chose to buy a Nexus One rather than an iPhone), but I also believe we can all learn by looking at the solutions other people have found to common problems. I don't believe that more buttons or fewer buttons is inherently better, but I do believe that designs can be rationally compared and, when one design is objectively better than another one, we should use it. For example, is it better to have a physical Menu button, or to use an on-screen Menu button? Either one could be implemented well or implemented badly, but Android's implementation is objectively inferior to Apple's implementation in a very important way: users have no way to know when a menu is available, and that significantly harms the usability of Android devices. I also believe there are ways of improving the implementation to eliminate this problem, and I made some specific suggestions for ways to do it. Peter -- 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.
