转贴：是谁把Android搞砸了？『英文全文，华文略写』

JunJun04035

如题：是谁把Android搞砸了？
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Break out your tinfoil hats and stock up on tinned food, because we've uncovered a conspiracy that makes a Dan Brown novel look like a big load of badly written crap.

It's global in scale, affects millions of people and involves some of the world's most famous firms.
We're talking, of course, about the conspiracy to bring down Google's Android OS.

Google's enemies aren't the people or organisations that you might expect. They're not the Apples and Microsofts of the world or their supporters, and they're not anti-competition regulators.

They're Google's partners, the very firms who make, market, sell and support Android devices. Between them, they're doing their very best to ruin Google's mobile OS.

When Google announced its Nexus One phone, it threw away the rulebook. Instead of selling phones with contracts attached, it would sell them directly to us.

Instead of letting manufacturers decide what features to include, Google would control the experience.

Instead of letting networks stuff the phones with proprietary software, Google would keep it clean.

Unfortunately it seems that the manufacturers and networks promptly found the rulebook and beat Google around the head with it, because the Nexus One is no more and Google's partners are doing their very best to do what they've always done - that is, make mobile phones as confusing and as closed as possible.

Let's take the manufacturers first. Some, like Dell, happily ship brand new devices with ancient versions of Android; others believe that what the world really needs is yet another proprietary Android interface, so we've got Motorola's Blur, HTC's Sense, Samsung's TouchWiz and others.

The selection of interfaces has become so confusing that Google has already said that with Android 3, aka Gingerbread, it will kill off third-party interface skins.



DATED: Dell's Streak - a brand new gadget with a not remotely brand new version of Android

But that's nothing compared to what the networks are up to. Around the world they're holding on to system updates, stuffing smartphones with unwanted apps and even replacing key services.

To take just a few recent examples, many UK users are still waiting on the Froyo (Android 2.2) update that Google released way back in May; O2 tried an update earlier this month but recalled it after it froze some customers' phones.

Networks add software that's difficult or impossible to remove, and they're messing with the Android Market, too: US operator Verizon is preparing its own Apple-style App Store, which you can be sure will be more prominent than the Android one.



ANDROID 2.2: Froyo, has been out for months - but many UK users are still waiting for it

Verizon is attracting particular criticism: in addition to the issues mentioned above it's done the unthinkable and dropped what many people might see as core Android services. If you buy Samsung's Fascinate, the Verizon version of its Galaxy S, Google search is replaced by Bing search and the navigation app is the proprietary, $10 per month VZ Navigator. According to The Droid Guy, the same policy will apply to future Android devices on the network.

Verizon has also signed an exclusive deal with Skype: if you want to run it on an Android phone in the US, you need to be with Verizon.

The result is something like James Kendrick describes: "The hardware partners are putting their own spin on the interface to make the phones stand out. Then you have carriers also involved who are quick to change the features on a given phone to fit their own purpose."
He also describes the problem of updates that are delayed by carriers or blocked altogether. Is he writing about Android? Nope. Windows Mobile.
Things got so confusing that Microsoft has effectively had to bin Windows Mobile and start again with a new platform and a new name, Windows Phone.


ALL NEW: Windows Mobile became so fragmented and confusing that Microsoft has started again with Windows Phone

Android has been one of the main beneficiaries of Microsoft's mobile mis-steps, but it doesn't appear to have learnt any lessons from it; while it's been gaining market share at Microsoft's expense it seems to be making the very same mistakes that got Microsoft into such a mess in the first place.

The problem that faced Windows Mobile, and the problem that is starting to face Android today, is fragmentation: the more different interfaces and version numbers and restrictions there are, the more confused consumers become.

When you buy a phone expecting to run Skype but find it blocked, or to get over the air updates but your network won't provide it, it may permanently dent your faith in the platform.

Will Android suffer the same fate as Windows Mobile? Perhaps not - the decision to kill off third party interfaces in Android 3.0 is a good sign - and definitely not in the short term, because (with the exception of Apple) Android's rivals are so far behind in the smartphone space that Google would have to do something truly awful to stop Android eating their lunch.

But sooner or later they'll get their act together, and when they do Google may come to regret losing control over its mobile OS.

Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/are-google-s-partners-ruining-android--718473?src=rss&attr=all#ixzz10HWlMBHn

JunJun04035

是谁搞砸了android呢？谷歌的第人们？答案是：都不是，而是使用Android为OS的各大厂商们。


当谷歌推出N1时，为了展示『开源』这个概念，他都没把标准给制定出来，听起来很棒，实际用起来一点也不。


谷歌控制的是概念，而不是功能；谷歌画的是框框，让其他人去填颜色。


例子1：戴尔最近的Android产品：Streak，搭载的竟然是1.6版本。


例子2：与其在硬件上下功夫，厂商们都越俎代庖，跑去玩软件，导致UI市场面临战国状态：我们有Sense，Blur，TouchWiz，Timescape等等
『逼使到谷歌放话说姜面包将统一UI』


例子3：各Telco做的调整
如：英国大部分的Android使用者仍然等待其产品的2.2升级，即使2.2早在5月推出
又如：Verizon正准备一个类似apple store的Android market。 此外，Verizon还拿掉了一些貌似Android核心功能软件，如以bing替代google search，加入自家付费导航（goole nav是免费的）以及skype绑定合约（要skype就verizon）


结果？


我们的软件大亨的手提独生子：WinMo的结果，被winphone取代。


专家指出：谷歌在电讯业的崛起，可谓多的微软的错误。而这次，很明显的是谷歌踏上了微软的错误。


而谷歌的统一UI将会是一件好事。

ong_alien69

這文章不錯。。。支持下

JunJun04035

回复 3# ong_alien69

感谢未来斑竹

lopiumy

有同感，如果可以像apple酱都统一就好。

gradient

好，统一了android用户们就不需要自己打自己人了，就比如现在很多欲望人跑去不断批评银河人那样，可以减少这些情况出现。。。

ong_alien69

回复  ong_alien69

感谢未来斑竹
JunJun04035 发表于 23-9-2010 02:47 AM

這個。。。不一定吧。。。

k3nlow0830

好，统一了android用户们就不需要自己打自己人了，就比如现在很多欲望人跑去不断批评银河人那样，可以减少这 ...
gradient 发表于 23-9-2010 10:53 AM

    酱就要看看姜包咯。。。 毕竟两架都是不错的。。。 可以免去口舌之争。。。

JunJun04035

有同感，如果可以像apple酱都统一就好。
lopiumy 发表于 23-9-2010 10:43

好，统一了android用户们就不需要自己打自己人了，就比如现在很多欲望人跑去不断批评银河人那样，可以减少这 ...
gradient 发表于 23-9-2010 10:53

酱就要看看姜包咯。。。 毕竟两架都是不错的。。。 可以免去口舌之争。。。
k3nlow0830 发表于 23-9-2010 12:07

个人依然觉得互相比较才是健康的，因为有比较才知道有什么不好，这样才可以期望更好的
『糟糕，说道有点像绕口令去』


而现在针对的是软件上的差别，也就是OS，UI，功能等等必须一致化，达到统一，或者一个标准

那各位觉得各厂商之间该如何区分自己的产品呢？


还有想听看各位要一致的软件，还是标准化的软件？

dnlelc

硬件的话,就像AMD可以装windows,intel同样可以装windows,品牌的话就像东芝,dell,sony等等,都一样可以装windows, 升级的时候,大家都可以升级,part1可以升级part2,xp可以升级vista
,但继续的话比如windows7,可能就要更强的硬件,统一大概就是这样而已,硬件还是首要的,不必想太多.

tenchi

如果像iphone的话那厂家要赚什么? 统一和多样化很难舍弃咯.老实讲统一的话我只想到就是消费者到最后只能听该 ...
实与虚 发表于 23-9-2010 01:41 PM

    顶你。。。但是不用回两次的

云川

如果统一了。。
那些山寨 android pad 就可以更完美了 XD

云川

如果像iphone的话那厂家要赚什么? 统一和多样化很难舍弃咯.老实讲统一的话我只想到就是消费者到最后只能听该 ...
实与虚 发表于 23-9-2010 01:41 PM

有point，+1

JunJun04035

如果像iphone的话那厂家要赚什么? 统一和多样化很难舍弃咯.老实讲统一的话我只想到就是消费者到最后只能听该 ...
实与虚 发表于 23-9-2010 13:41

『统一』可以是很多东西，这就要看统一的是什么了基本上Android不会走上iOS那样，因为Android相对的比较开源（虽然在各厂商的UI覆盖下变得限制多多）
在同样不破解之下，iOS比Android的限制更多得多。


再来就是Market的功能，App Store只能说是个feature，但对Android而言，Market可谓Specs
但是被Apple控制的App Store的app的实用性，多样性乃至品质都比Android更高。


或许厂商应该放弃对UI的overlay，转向开发更多姿多彩的App？

JunJun04035

回复 17# 实与虚

解决办法就是仿效winphone咯，我给你OS，你跟着我的RnR走

也就是我们说『统一』了


倒转来说，这样对产商利润更好，不是吗？
在怎么算，开发app的成本绝对比开发ui低吧？

gatih

我赞成统一~~酱就不用烦要买哪一家的电话了

stevenloke

可是，统一了就很难想买自己喜欢的收集了

UnitedDream

其实，与其硬硬塞不同的UI进去android里面，不如ship一个pure original 的android，酱得话update就容易和快多多声。
至于要凸显自己（厂家）和其他人的不同的话，android market上面放一个自己的UI（比如sense/motoblur）的installation （with hardware requirement），如果是这个厂商某个款式的话就可以免费install，其他的如果hardware 配合的话也可以付费下载使用。

酱得话多好，大家不用被绑死在一个UI（除非刷rom），要original就original，用Original android UI的还可以快速的推出update给他们，那些喜欢用厂家UI的就要等等（好过全部一起傻傻等），另外还可以拿自家的UI来赚多点￥￥(其他厂家的用户看上的话）