Comments on: Android yearns to become more usable, lovable, iPhone-like

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:29:08 +0000

I think it’s about a company that hires someone that really gets UI design who tells that company, time to shape up! And the company actually takes heed of that person’s advice and reacts accordingly.

Matias Duarte is to Google what Jonathan Ive is to apple.

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:18:59 +0000

uh. . . some of that came from webOS, not MS. MS copied much from webOS ;)

just and fyi

By: David H. Deans

David H. Deans — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:51:07 +0000

Can anyone who has received a review sample of the Galaxy Nexus please comment on the Google+ integration? In particular, are there any value-add features for ‘Hangouts’ usage?

If it’s available via Verizon Wireless, then I’d welcome the opportunity to review it myself — and highlight my own Hangouts application scenarios.

By: Ryan Kim

Ryan Kim — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:45:15 +0000

If you read the story, it’s more about Android looking to incorporate more of the emotional connection and general usability of iOS, not picking off specific ideas. You’re right that ICS actually pulls from WebOS and I’d say WP7 too. But I think it’s in pursuit of the feeling and experience that iOS provides users.

By: Andre Goulet

Andre Goulet — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:25:42 +0000

Just because you don’t like the fact that iOS is currently the one to beat doesn’t mean that you have to be harsh to the author of this article. Facts are the facts, and the iPhone IS the number one selling handset. That makes it the benchmark to beat. If you have blinders on about that, fine, but being so insulting just makes you look like a 13-year old, and one with no common sense either.

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:55:01 +0000

If anything, Android is moving further away from the limitations of iOS. ICS is taking several ideas from WebOS, but I wouldn’t expect a ‘tech journalist’ to have a clue on what’s going on outside the Apple reality distortion field.

By: tim jones

tim jones — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:05:02 +0000

Android does not yearn to become more overhyped, non-multitasking, crappy notifications, voice-interface late, small- screen, iPhone-like trinket

By: Furli

Furli — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:33:45 +0000

Flat square widgets really aren’t that remarkable, calling them “tiles” is though.

Android has got about 1/2 dozen launchers that replicate Metro damn near perfect.

By: Fjord Prefect

Fjord Prefect — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:35:28 +0000

I think they want to be Microsoft.

By: Al. G.

Al. G. — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:32:27 +0000

Alex is right – everybody copies good ideas. Both Microsoft and Google ( I don’t even talk about BlackBerry’s QNX) copied the webOS UI card metaphora. In ICS, there is more from webOS than from any other platform. People app – copy of Synergy. Android beam – webOS Touch-to-share. Multitasking realisation – almost same as in webOS. Mathias Duarte tryied to give Android UI some of webOS’s elegance.