Over the past year, Android is the mobile phone industry has been a hot topic, on the Android coverage, so dizzying, every few days can see a new mobile phone manufacturers or operators to join the ranks Android.
In China, the three major operators have the Android as its own operating system, in which both China Mobile and China Unicom, the introduction of Android, and its secondary development, making the shell with its own mobile phone operating system, and China Telecomclaims directly with Android.
Abroad, the biggest names in the first class enterprise with Android is a well-known Motorola, with its later, Sony also announced it has joined Android camp.Just recently, the United States there are three operators also announced the Android camp to join, the Android camp is growing stronger.
According to statistics, currently, Android phone models has reached 12, in 26 countries around the world 32 mobile operators.The face of these circumstances, Google CEO Eric Schmidt touched his favorite side of the Android, side proudly claimed: "All conditions have been met, Android will show explosive growth."
However, the industry for the Android user experience in the evaluation, it is much criticism, praising the voice and almost none is more important is the actual market share of Android can be said to almost zero.
Android poor user experience because of this fatal flaw, will make at this stage in the development of Android in walks with difficulty.Android is facing two major problems, one is bound to encounter a new product maturity and the other open source software is a common problem - efficiency.
Lackluster operating system
Android can be said is a mediocre phone operating system, it is only based on the Linux kernel of a countless operating systems in itself is not superior to others, Android is so favorable to business by phone, the most importantThe reason is because it is a truly free cell phone operating system, itself, there is no major systemic defects.So, for those who are eager to have a "own" operating system for mobile phone magnate, Android to come out, no doubt timely help, they just beginning to take shape Android by the second development to be able to ownOne belongs to "own" the mobile phone operating system.
In this way, can free themselves from the kinds of situation.Because it is its own operating system, so the owners can be arbitrary in its transformation to better meet its overall strategy, such as in accordance with their own position, to give the user some exceptional user experience, or from a competitive point of view, can be easily achieved with the opponent's strategy of differentiation or homogenization.
There is also a very important factor is that mobile operating system as the most basic software, mobile terminals can be used as a valuable strategic platform for use by the carrying capacity of the strongest operating system platform, the other can be easilyapplication be extended, for example: an application pre-installed operating system software, such as a particular brand of browser, it can be said that the promotion of the best browser because of almost every manufacturers are eager to get such a generalization,to achieve value-added products, therefore, are seeking an "own" marketing platform also granted.
It was in this context, the major mobile phone giant have joined the Android unknowingly into camp, and as to promote their own competitive products.
Unfortunately, in reality, being, Android is not, as in the promotion process of the imagination so well.
Open Source gene
Because Android is a new product, while the other on this basis the second developed products, but also are freshly new stuff.From the process point of view, any new product there will always be a process of defects, and process of the accumulation of defects can only rely on time to be able to be resolved, poor user experience, this fatal flaw, it becameAndroid on the road to the development of a stumbling block.
This situation for two reasons: First, Android high cost of secondary development, and if not, then the secondary development of Android, Android itself is far too simple, almost can not be said to be a commercial-grade operating system.To Motorola, for example, focused on the dozens of elite forces, spent more than 1 year of time before the Motorola version of the Android development is completed.
Therefore, as a new product available soon, Android in the near future want to have good performance a little unreasonable; contrary, from the short-term point of view, Android user experience, whether from exercise or from the stability of the system speaking,all with existing mature operating systems there is a considerable distance, although these issues are not insurmountable problems, but the means to overcome these problems is only one, that is, the accumulation of experience through time, There is no other.
Found only in the constant problems, the problem is in the hands of the feedback to the developers to resolve the problem, there are now no better address the process issues a better way.That will take time, but also need time to solve the problem, with the money to buy time, does not apply here.
On the other hand, for all open source software, they are, without exception, there is a question of efficiency is to improve the efficiency of open source software, open source is not always better than proprietary software, large companies are much lower, resulting in thisThe main reason the case is: open source software users who are not open source, this feature, open source software determines the user's technical achievements can not be shared.The same question, and perhaps all of the open source software will let users who repeatedly use different methods to overcome it again, and open source software, the owner is unable to obtain extensions of the software used and the experience gained and lessons learned.
Android as an open source software, naturally no exception, as now all the Android users in both the fragmented nature of the secondary development of Android, and its results can not be shared, this is a big problem, such asMotorola, China Mobile will not be able to enjoy the fruits, so that makes it costly, whether it is cost or time cost on the economy is true.
Android is also in the technical level there will be a fault, when these companies use the Android-based problems are identified, the first to distinguish where the problem is to upgrade a part of it in their own, or belong to the kernel itself Androidproblem.If the former, of course, the Android user can solve the problem themselves, but if a problem appears in the Android kernel level, then the problem will become quite complex, after all, users of Android Android kernel can not be improved, but onlycan issue to the owner of Google Android to be addressed, and Google need to address the problem is, when it was to solve, but also on Google's overall strategy.
In addition, Google, Android itself is not of its own customers, for the issue itself does not get a direct feel, therefore, its solution may not be able to effectively meet the needs.The Android is either from the efficiency point of view or from the accumulated, there are serious systemic flaws.
So many big names already have a level supporters Android, although it will have a bright future, but its success with the glory of the road is bumpy but it will bear, it must first address the user experience, many problems that exist, andthese problems can be worked non-overnight success, it must be the accumulation of experience through a long process, but this lengthy process is also slow because of open source software, so it will be more lengthy.
Cycle
Of course, not to say poor at present Android user experience, which will become the future bleak, from a technical point of view, the operating system itself is a very mature technology, from the user experience is concerned, the technology does not existobstacles, all problems can be resolved by identifying the problem.In other words In other words, as long as over time, Android is now facing the biggest problem - poor user experience, can be solved.
That it is very simple, but really doing it, we should solve the problem out, is a very simple matter.The so-called Rome was not built in a day, as a very complex operating system software, which is itself a very complicated system, involving a very broad, unpredictable place very much, not designers and engineers takeair-conditioned room in the office, pat his head to be able to problem solve.It must be a lot of practice before we can identify problems before they can gradually be solved and improved.
Therefore, using the Android operating system in the series of large-scale commercial mobile phone before the ills of poor user experience will go hand in hand along with the Android, but poor user experience, in turn promote the formation of Android in the biggest obstacle in the process, who do notwould be willing to improve in the system before the massive shot, otherwise the event of a serious problem, the situation will become unmanageable.