U.S. Cellular To Get uiOne Makeover
Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm hating this "custom UI" business. Smacks of control more than it does under the guise of "ease of use" for the simplest of consumers.
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You obviously do not know what you’re talking about. uiOne gives the end user the capability to skin their phone to your preference, not the carriers. Go to
- http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/about/ui one.html
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Wow, feck off, dude.
I'm not talking about skinning and slapping on a pretty aqua face; how utterly freaking useless of you. I'm talking about uniformly making the underlying UI for the carrier, DISCOURAGING MANUFACTURERS FROM MAKING INTEGRATED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS IN THE FUTURE.
You seem to not know of the implications or of what we're talking about. I'm not talking about a freaking WinAmp style skin that keeps the functionality but changes the ****ING COLOUR.
Only a moron would call me out while not knowing the difference between a skin and the OS. Weak.
And your URL doesn't work without some tweaking. Good job at "failing t3h intarnet".
I'm not talking about skinning and slapping on a pretty aqua face; how utterly freaking useless of you. I'm talking about uniformly making the underlying UI for the carrier, DISCOURAGING MANUFACTURERS FROM MAKING INTEGRATED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS IN THE FUTURE.
You seem to not know of the implications or of what we're talking about. I'm not talking about a freaking WinAmp style skin that keeps the functionality but changes the ****ING COLOUR.
Only a moron would call me out while not knowing the difference between a skin and the OS. Weak.
And your URL doesn't work without some tweaking. Good job at "failing t3h intarnet".
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How can this change "smack of [the provider's] control" when the point is to give users more control over the appearance of their interfaces? Users have no choice over operating system now, so a provider forcing a user to use a different operating system is not any more control than the provider already has; providing a solution that allows users to chose the appearance, however, does give users more control than they currently have. I entertain little hope that you will understand, after seeing your previous response.
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The appearance is and should be irrelevant in the advancement of developing advanced and usable technologies for the phone, and yes, we do have a choice over different technologies and orientations and even the UIs by selecting different models of phone, from different manufacturers.
When you take control of the software, you get a dominating Microsoft-esque control scheme where the manufacturers are no longer driven to innovate their software and their R & D divisions that deal with human interface are wasted and useless, or hindered by the carrier's design.
There's more at stake here than changing a colour here or there, or rearranging where the icon for a phonebook goes. I'm talking about the manufacturer's features being blocked ou...
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When you take control of the software, you get a dominating Microsoft-esque control scheme where the manufacturers are no longer driven to innovate their software and their R & D divisions that deal with human interface are wasted and useless, or hindered by the carrier's design.
There's more at stake here than changing a colour here or there, or rearranging where the icon for a phonebook goes. I'm talking about the manufacturer's features being blocked ou...
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sounds like verizon.i for one when i buy a motorola i want a motorola not some thing a carrier came out with. 👿
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Word.
I just realized that I was trying to argue with shills.
I mean, shoot guys. I work alongside you under the same company, but I'm not allowed to critique this questionable position? Because it is questionable on if it's actually the right choice for consumers. I feel the uniform carrier based OS' simplicity for troubleshooting grandma doesn't outweigh the cons of discouraging innovations in GUI development.
I just realized that I was trying to argue with shills.
I mean, shoot guys. I work alongside you under the same company, but I'm not allowed to critique this questionable position? Because it is questionable on if it's actually the right choice for consumers. I feel the uniform carrier based OS' simplicity for troubleshooting grandma doesn't outweigh the cons of discouraging innovations in GUI development.
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