of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Um... HTC was THE REASON upgrades were such a pain in the first place!!!
If they would just ship stock Android, none of this stuff would be happen.
Congrats HTC for realizing what a pesky annoyance your software team has been to millions of users.
@Wesscoast
surely its the mobile operators to blame for slapping on their custom UI as opposed to stock android?
@Wesscoast +1
@mayhem121 The thing is that there was actually no need for them to bake it into the OS - the Sense launcher (and widgets) can sit on top of the default OS (and be turn-off-and-on-able).
The only thing they had to bake in were OS-level feature changes - and for some reason they hobbled the Bluetooth stack in doing this.
@mayhem121
Come on.. Google told people at the outset, "you can skin it however you want, so it won't just be a commodity android phone" ... HTC really believes that if they shipped stock, people wouldn't want their phones, and just go for a moto, etc... that's why Sense exists!
Sadly, that differentiation is just.. a huge nuisance when it means you have to wait an extra 60-90 days to get software updates. that should be a deal breaker right there.
HTC... your hardware is beautiful. don't worry. If you ship stock Froyo (as you're finally doing in China) the phones will fly off the shelves. Just keep putting big dollars into sick hardware. Get the software people to develop sweet Android apps and sell them in the store.
@Wesscoast
fair enough, cheers for clearing that up for me, i was misguided! :)
@Wesscoast I don't know about that... I'm sure Sense plays a role in at 'least *some* of the dev time for an OS update, but carrier validation probably accounts for the biggest chunk block of time before said update is released. Look at other phones running plain Android, like the Moment or the myTouch 3G... 2.1 took just as long to get to those phones as it took to get to the Hero.
I do agree certain parts of Sense don't need to be as deeply entrenched as they are, but a lot of people also underestimate many of the Sense tweaks and improvements. Those "share" shortcuts all over the place (browser, gallery, etc.) are super handy for instance.
@Wesscoast
That's just naive. Have you used Sense? If I had bought stock Android rather than a phone running sense I would have missed out on USB tethering out of the box, the FM radio (which I use a lot but isn't a big deal for others) the tight integration of the social networks I use (again not a huge deal for some but useful to many) pinch to zoom in places where Google themselves initially were reluctant to implement it (yes HTC were the first to ship working pinch to zoom) and a host of features that meant HTC phone were already a head of the curve. I'm running 2.2 on my HTC Desire now and because of the great work HTC has done I was pretty much up to date feature-wise back on 2.1 making this update not the huge leap it could have been.
So far only Flash availability and built in apps to SD are the standout additions. It was already plenty fast and none of the other "issues" have been show stoppers.
Having good looking hard ware is not going to be enough when making a purchasing decision. We're talking multi-million dollar corporations. Be realistic.
@Wesscoast
did you forget about required carrier customizations?