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jonbwfc

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	l3v1ck wrote: I've no idea what the bog standard Android release actually looks like.

'Vanilla' android? The 'app management system' (how you start apps) is a lot like iOS, the basic GUI reminds me of a good Linux window manager - like maybe a slightly old version of Gnome. The basic icon designs are better than iOS, IMO.
At the end of the day, there's only so many ways you can do 'arrange icons on a screen so you can touch them to start things' and 'have a window that displays data covering a larger area than is visible on the screen'. Unless you do something like windows 7 and the rotating tile effect, which TBH I just thought was being different for the sake of it, or possibly only to avoid being sued.

I prefer Android's notification system to iOS's too. But then I'd prefer just about anything to iOS's notification system, which is [LIFTED].

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Wed May 11, 2011 8:51 am

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Re: Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'

I think I've mentioned before that my choice of handset was because I prefered HTC Sense to anything on the market at that time. iOS, vanilla Android and TouchWiz dont do it for me.

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	veato wrote: I think I've mentioned before that my choice of handset was because I preferred HTC Sense to anything on the market at that time. iOS, vanilla Android and TouchWiz dont do it for me.

I think I have to agree with that.

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	Linux_User wrote: It's purely anecdotal, but there are three main reasons people I know have Android phones and not iPhones, in no particular order, they are: - They hate Apple and its business model - They prefer the open nature of Android - They like the Google name/brand

I would have thought that the costs of the phone and contract would rank pretty high as well.

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Wed May 11, 2011 3:41 pm

jonbwfc

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Re: Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'

Interesting reading

Journalist goes through the entire submissions & evidence (750 pages) of the Google vs SkyHook case, finds some eyebrow-raising things....

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	jonbwfc wrote: Interesting reading Journalist goes through the entire submissions & evidence (750 pages) of the Google vs SkyHook case, finds some eyebrow-raising things.... Jon

The plot thickens.

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Fri May 13, 2011 6:04 am

MrStevenRogers

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Re: Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'

im using a HTC legend which is using android 2.2 and it works for me ...

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Fri May 13, 2011 10:00 am

rustybucket

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Re: Android 'club' makes phone makers 'do what we want'

big_D wrote:

rustybucket wrote:


	forquare1 wrote: I don't consider Android to be open. If Google accepted participation from the community I'd be more willing to say it was open. I think all of these stories show that Google just want to label it as open for the marketing factor.

Community participation and Open-source are two completely separate things. Open-source means that as well as providing binaries you also allow customers to read, modify and redistribute the source code.

One can be open-source without being a community project.

Yes, but they don't allow that, show me a repository, where you can download Honeycomb? Google haven't released the code...

Indeed.

What I was commenting on was that Open-source has nothing whatsoever to do with Community participation.

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