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However to be fair, has nothing to do with Widgets at all which is what I was demonstrating by screen shot and description to people who never saw them.
In fact I am suggesting with a nice set of Widgets, and architecture to allow then in iOS 6.1 or 7.0 more of the 'influential' types who make decisions could enjoy iOS devices with all the comforts they are used to. The 'dead clock' on iOS 6 is pretty embarrassing for anyone who has seen widgets EVER.
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Agreed the fact that a fragmented Android hardware base leads to some nasty bugs - same thing on WinTel hardware. Though some of the 'crown jewels' (screens, cameras, useful hard buttons) on such HW results in sales when people are picking phone at store. Much less fragmentation on Mac and iOS Hardware. Much less so.
Write once, debug everywhere. Widgets are not the source of bugs. Lots of hardware and minor revisions and a very frequent OS update cycle that carriers are ALLOWED to 'fork' and turn off updates is the issue. Of course later Android releases squash a ton of bugs, but if a carrier can turn off/lock out updates well the customer is _______ without dinner, movie and lube.
I have had reliable AND buggy Android phones and I think underpowered Androids and Androids that are 'locked' into older OS versions by stupid carriers certainly hurt the Android rep, as do really buggy 'dialer/contact shells' some carriers offer. Users have a tolerance for such things, as WinTel has shown particularly when they are cheaper and easier to get and replace and on the surface offer better specs (better screens and cameras). If users did not tolerate such things MS and Windows would have miniscule market share and Android would have a tiny market share.
What Apple and iOS proves is that if you provide a much more bug free, speedy no compromise experience many will pay MUCH higher prices and trust will be higher when things do go wrong, and loyalty high. And this 'halo effect' will spread to encourage purchases at all levels (nano, iPod Touches, iPad, Macs) when people can afford them. Brand loyalty/fanaticism is higher when you get smoothness/very few bugs/speedy/elegant right, but still corporate purchasers and HW vendors due consider 'features' significant and even Apple cannot ignore that. If they could, iOS would have no Outlook support, it does because features matter. And when people do finally switch from Android to iOS and encounter less bugs and less tech support incidents they stay. But when people get their first Apple phones and ask me where is ____ and where is ____ I hate telling them its not there yet because they don't always like that answer. Some even keep 2 phones for that reason.
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Ryan Waldon <ryan@iamthereforeipad.com> wrote:I came to the iPhone from an HTC EVO. 4G, and was quite happy to leave the chaotic widget infested buggy user-interface of Android behind.Just my twopence worth…
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