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I actually don't understand this. Those are all features — good features — but that doesn't mean it has a good user experience. Android, when I use it, has lots of completely strange and unintuitive choices: a third of the OS in green/black, another third in orange/gray, and the last third in black/orange is the most obvious, but there are others: an unlock mechanism that acts before you lift your finger (unlike the rest of the OS); scrollbars in most apps that seem to "inchworm" along; over-used and confusingly-placed drop shadows in the Gmail app; gray, thin titlebars and thick "action bars" in other places; orange glows around the icons in the launcher but an orange, square backdrop in the home screen; unintuitive "glow" effect at the end of lists (after modeling physical motion for the list above, abruptly stopping is disconcerting: it feels like the list has not reached it's natural end, but smashed into something).

There's more, but while Android does have a lot of really awesome features, the interface and UX don't appear like anyone bothered to even try and design them.



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