can android avoid the linux desktop failure
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Can Android's openness and freedom survive the closed freedom Microsoft and Apple provide?TRANSCRIPT
Can Android avoid the Linux Desktop failure?
Jürgen Coetsiers, CTOtcs digital world
@jcoetsie
The IT Pendulum
Innovation/Renovation
Adoption/User Experience
standardization
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE USER EXPERIENCE
Your average PC user
• He knows how to surf the web.• He knows how to watch videos with his computer.• He does his budgets in Excel.• Write letters to his family using Word.• Send and receive e-mail, using Outlook Express.• Watch videos/DVDs and play music/MP3s.• Play the games included in WinXP
• Never customized windows. Not even changed the default resolution.
• Never touched the control panel.• Never used the command line.
Wants freedom
• In choosing his pc• In choosing his supplier
But
• Does not like freedom when it comes to the apps he uses
CALCULATOR, CALCULATOR, CALCULATOR, MY KINGDOM FOR A CALCULATOR
• Windows users:– Start – Programs – Accessories – Calculator
• Linux users:– Multiple applications, different by distro– Confusion?
• Text edit– Windows users: textedit– Linux users: Kate, VIM, Emacs, Kjots, Knotes, Pico, Joe, …
An average user does not understand this
CHOICE IMPLIES COMPLEXITY
Conclusion?
• Users don’t want to have to consult the manual to use his mail program.
• He doesn’t want to feel stupid when he opens his mail client.
• He simply wants to be able to turn his computer on, log on to the Internet, write that mail, visit that website, write his letters, play his videos, listen to his music.
• He doesn’t care if his software is perfect - after all, he has been using Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, Word.
• He has also been infected by all sorts of spyware, trojans, worms and viruses.
• He has a less average pc buddy to assist
WHAT ABOUT THE HANDHELD PC WORLD = SMARTPHONES
Your average smartphone user
• Calls (99%)• SMS (83%)• Take pictures (47%)• Install Apps (39%)• Browse web (29%)• Store and play music (28%)• Email (22%)• Social Media (21%)
The firm's My Mobile Lifestyle 2010 survey
THE SIMPLE FACTOR
APPLE IOSIs this freedom?
iOS
WINDOWS PHONE 7Is this freedom?
Windows 7 Phone
GOOGLE ANDROIDIs this freedom?
Android
CONCLUSION