DISQUS

last100: Google demos Android again; it’s full of promise, but we’re still waiting for the real deal

  • Jawad Shuaib · 1 year ago
    The comparison between Android and the iPhone is unfair. The iPhone, with all its glorious UI experience, is a very closed and tightly controlled platform. The promise of Android is not a better user experience but rather an open experience - the sort of stuff that the mobile web really requires at this stage.

    - Jawad Shuaib
  • Steve O'Hear, editor · 1 year ago
    @ Jawad

    That's a fair point, but in terms of UI and the Web browser (WebKit), the two platforms have a lot of common ground, so comparisons are inevitable.

    Let's see how open the iPhone actually feels to end consumers, and what restrictions carriers / handset manufacturers put on so-called Gphones -- they will be free to alter the Android experience as they please, so it could lead to a lot of fragmentation, leading to mixed user experiences and expectations.

    Also, my view differs slightly from Dan's: I think Android is looking pretty nice and, together with Apple, will really get others to raise their UI game (looking at you Nokia), and that's good for us all.