Comments on: Is crapware invading Android?

By: There will be a Nexus Two | Another guy named Mike

There will be a Nexus Two | Another guy named Mike — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:01:33 +0000

[...] crapware is invading Android. Carriers are busy trying to prevent owners controlling their own hardware. HTC [...]

By: Oops, dimenticavo/ 22 marzo 2010 - The New Blog Times

Oops, dimenticavo/ 22 marzo 2010 - The New Blog Times — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:02:29 +0000

[...] premesse/promesse sembrano buone.Oops 3 – Android? Un’idea geniale ma, osserva più di qualcuno, ha bisogno di essere più unico: meno frammentazione, troppe versioni in giro in pochi anni. In [...]

By: Cait

Cait — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:06:35 +0000

Well, given that I would never have bought a motorola before if you paid me, I genuinely think the Motoblur service really works, and I like it.

There are things I would update about it, but the general principles and usage are perfect for me.

The real issue here is that the manufacturers and the networks both want to own the customer, obviously. So you'll actually have a competing set of so called 'crapware' vying to be placed on the phones, which may lead to some interesting power struggles.

By: Google Android: It's time to end the fragmentation | The Toybox | ZDNet.com

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:30:19 +0000

[...] as Ian Betteridge puts it at Technovia: Android is beginning its spiral into the world of crapware, software which serves no real purpose [...]

By: Ian Betteridge

Ian Betteridge — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:12:24 +0000

Just to be clear, I personally think that SenseUI is better than the stock Android look. However, that's really not the point: as you rightly say, Android needs a level of uniformity to succeed, but the fact that it's open source actually plays against this ever being achieved.

Think about desktop Linux, for example. While every distribution shares much of the same core UI, there are sufficient differences to make moving from one to the other non-trivial, unless you're a highly-technical user. And Linux doesn't have the kinds of pressure that Android has, where every phone maker and network wants to "differentiate" their products from the rest of the pack.

By: bstr

bstr — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:58 +0000

Not sure I agree with the proposed analogy. I hear more praises for Sense UI than complaints. In fact, I've never heard a user complaint. What I do hear is complaints about 'skinning' from those assessing its fragmenting affect. Personally, I'm against vendors each offering a different user experience to android users. Android needs uniformity to succeed.

I agree about VCast and the like, but I'm not seeing this to nearly the same degree with skins.