As an iPhone user at first I thought "yeah, I'm sure I could come up with a similar list, some stuff does bother me as well there". But then I read about those rather mind boggling issues. 'Voice'? Inconsistant UI windows with the same function in the same app? Disappearing status bar? Broken rotation animations?
Who the hell is doing QA at Google?
And that thing about the back button - it seems to me like the interface guideline designer had a good intention that was shown to be not feasible (imagine MS Windows gave application developers control over the behavior of the start menu button (oh yes, I will miss you, love)). Why haven't they changed it to something more reasonable by now? From an implementation standpoint they could just use the back button for in-app purposes only (like the software back button in iOS) and take away its application switcher capabilities. Isn't there a shortcut to recent apps like in iOS?
I agree the major issue of Android is its inconsistency in navigation and multiple minor presentation flaws. Another thing that bothers me is how different apps from Google itself regurarly overlap eachother in functionality and define adhoc-ui guidelines.
Needless to say the functional aspects of the Android OS are quite impressive.
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And that thing about the back button - it seems to me like the interface guideline designer had a good intention that was shown to be not feasible (imagine MS Windows gave application developers control over the behavior of the start menu button (oh yes, I will miss you, love)). Why haven't they changed it to something more reasonable by now? From an implementation standpoint they could just use the back button for in-app purposes only (like the software back button in iOS) and take away its application switcher capabilities. Isn't there a shortcut to recent apps like in iOS?
Needless to say the functional aspects of the Android OS are quite impressive.