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Google Android Is Already Getting Confusing | Business Insider:

This is an old article, one that I already posted last year. However it is still very current.

The good news for Google’s Android mobile operating system: It’s finally getting a lot of good support from mobile phone manufacturers and carriers.


The bad news: Because so many different companies are involved in the mix, it’s at risk of becoming very confusing and fragmented. That’s already starting to happen.

Now it’s even worse since there are plenty more brands that come with Android and more carriers that want to jump into that wagon. Each brand and each carrier change Android (UI, behavior, apps installed by default, etc) in any way they please. That’s the nature of open. However that same nature produces horrible things, from user confusion to poor and inconsistent behavior.

In most cases the OS is not at fault here, but in some other it is. Regardless, I don’t understand why Google allows this. Heck, why users put up with this…

Simplicity and consistency are, in my opinion, a better way to go - one that on the long run will survive, even if it means it has to be closed.

Note: I originally posted about this and an analysis on the OS’s last year here.

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Technology, design and poetry are the guidelines that have taken to the planning of this floor lamp, having big dimensions, and designed to be an elegant piece of furniture.

That’s what Italian lighting manufacturer Lucente says about their floor lamp Semjase.

The lamp, from the hand of industrial designer Sandro Santantonio, flows from the base to the top in one continuous curve, giving the lamp a fantastic minimalist and futuristic feel.

Tool minimalism!

A repost.

R. Clayton Miller’s 10/GUI. A new way to interact with computers.