I think most people will agree a good part of corporate phone making is catching up with blackberry.
Not that their phones don't suck (they do), but Blackberry have known what corporations wanted and have been implementing it for a long time. They only forgot about the users. Oops, bad mistake. And off they go.
- Excellent, easy to use GUI.
- No Command line shit required to do stuff.
- Easy customization.
Actually, you got your assumptions wrong. Android has GREAT command line support. You can do pretty much anything, including send SMS and initiate phone calls using the command line. It is one of the things I love about it: I can do whatever the hell I want.
Also, regarding customization, that is only true in theory. Phone manufacturers (I'm looking at you, Motorola) go out of their way to stop people from customizing. So, unless you are hacking the hell out of your phone, customization is very limited.
The fact there are so many different GUIs out there, with any manufacturer using a different one - or even multiple ones - also doesn't fit your model.
The reason Android is taking such a huge chunk of global market is mostly commercial. It is easy for manufacturers to use, and relatively cheap. There are great apps out there, and it is well supported by developing houses. It has a very usable interface (GUI). It is not exactly easy but, as far as smartphones go, nothing is really easy - we are just so used to it we don't even notice.
Lets face it, Android was in the right place at the right time, and (most specially) with the right mentality. iOS is apple only, and you are SOL if you are someone else. Windows mobile was a piece of crap, the phone would lock down all the time, and you had to go anything through Microsoft. Either you had to do your own development (like Nokia did), or you were out of the market. Along come Google with Android. In the beginning, not such a great solution, but a much better option.
Me ? I'm just happy for it. I own 2 Android phone, my wife has one, my daughter another
Fairly stupid, but then again Amazon has free shipping with a $25 order which is about what the world's small violin costs.
No, you are wrong.
It is actually only $9.98
There should be NO default.
Show a dialog with no default option, and force the use to choose. No "Next->Next->Finish".
Seriously ? I would cast Dushku without blinking for that role. Or if we go outside the usual suspects, Jessica Alba.
Glau is another one that would work great either as Empire or Bounty Hunter.
I really don't see NPH as Luke. But you know, Fran Kranz might work.
Could have Alexis Denisof as Obi Wan Kenobi
NPH should be someone from the empire.
Knowing the cast is easy
Felicia Day as
Alexis Denisof as
Summer Glau as
Eliza Dushku as
Fran Kranz as
No, Joss Whedon is the same as George Lucas: they both work well with supervision. Compare the Firefly comics with the series, so many things are just out of character and wrong in the comics, because Joss was unsupervised.
I will have to dispute that, and submit Dr. Horrible and Much Ado as evidence. Joss Whedon was 100% unsupervised when doing those.
You know, if Joss Whedon takes over writing AND directing, it might actually work.
'Included in "etc"' ? Seriously ?
So what you mean it "Different operating systems have different things".
It is an interesting argument, in light of the fact that most barriers have NOTHING to do with the operating system(s). Ask anyone who worked with TMN, inter device communication etc. Heck, even people who work with things as simple as EDIs will tell you that is nonsense.
Everything has different APIs, but in most case those are artificial barriers. Mostly due to lack of (public) documentation. Other times, because of stupid patents.
If you mean different ABIs then yes, that is true, but that's just part of the game. It is like saying different processors have different microcodes.
You make a very compelling argument. Thank you. It is nice seeing intelligent posts here. All to rare, unfortunately.
Don't waste your time replying to him, he is nothing but a stupid troll.
And yes, that is exactly what I meant. Not only that, but I believe in a few decades (if not sooner) China will be known as the creative and technological country, where the good products come from.
As I said, Japanese products were considered crappy knockoffs, with extremely low quality. Then, after a couple decades, they were the producers of great products and technologies. "Made in Japan" started meaning high quality. Even today, there are already some very good products coming from China, created and developed there.
And I have a problem with your stupidity, if you really think I was making a race related comment, instead of a historical one totally unrelated to race, relating only to technological copying, learning and innovation.
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
