ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow. Impressive rant. I love the UI, and the emerging app ecosystem that 
comes with it. Keep up the great work!!!

Mitchell

On Monday, 1 June 2015 5:01:54 PM AEST, Marcin GTriderXC.tk wrote:
> I'm actually only a translator and not even big smartphones 
> fan. I bought an Aquaris for test purposes only and as far as I 
> find the system itself working perfectly, in comparison to 
> Android devices my bq as an useless brick that I'd rather 
> changed to my old Nokia5500. Why? It's really not all about me. 
> What I'm writing here about is an attitude of a normal user to 
> ubuntu-phone. "Is there a skype, navigation, what's app, 
> facebook, endomondo/strava/etc.?". 
>
>
> By writing this I only want to ask if it wouldn't be a better 
> idea to build something like Wine in Ubuntu that could let run 
> Android apps on ubuntu-phone? I do not think Ubuntu-phone will 
> ever be even comparable to Android, because here we have a 
> problem that doesn't exist in a desktop\laptop world: the 
> devices manufacturers decide if a system will become mainsream 
> or not. On my laptop my OS is my own decision, on smartphone 
> not. By this I only want to show that for a Ubuntu-pc there are 
> already problems in finding alternatives for a Windows program. 
> And it is not that I miss skype or Instagram so much cause I 
> hardly use them both. It's about the rest of the world that will 
> not suddenly switch to Telegram or from skype to somewhere else. 
> You will not build another facebook and You will not overtake 
> Android because of no apps. Now about apps. With full respect to 
> all developers, some of the apps that we find in ubuntu-shop 
> today are not only poorely built
>  but what worse poorely described. And that what drives people 
> up the wall! A user will not be angry by reading that an 
> endomondo app is only another www interface that has nothing to 
> do with an android app and probably will never have. I'm not a 
> hater, I'm just sharing my own experiences. I wouldn't be as 
> disappointed with this system if the rules were clearer. Today 
> thete is a huge mess that only unnecesarely nerves. Not only a 
> mess is what needs an attention. It is the user interface itself 
> that is pretty MS-Dos alike. Again why? I'd love to send You 
> some pictures of my bq screen, a big screen that displays me 
> information in a left upper corner like a command line with some 
> tiny letters that to often... Make sentences of words that go 
> out from the display. Should I search them on the right side 
> next to my phone? Is is so hard to brake the line and use a 
> whole screen? And it happens on every step:
>
> Gesendet über Yahoo Mail für Android
>
> Yes, I sent this message from a Nexus cause using a web browser 
> or an Yahoo "app" as some people want to call it, cause I'd 
> rather call it an another GUI for displaying me a web site and 
> what worse (cause that's what apps are made for) in a same 
> poorely way that a web browser does it.if we are about browser 
> that is so poor that what everyone does is a search for 
> alternatives: what to hell is an "Airfox browser"?! That what I 
> called mess and driving people up the wall a few lines above. 
> That how the system looks like: messy and immature is the worst 
> problem for me personally not some lack of apps. Apps that will 
> never be developed in an amount and quality which we see on 
> Android devices. Is it impossible to built a wine for an Android 
> apps for people who would like to use ubuntu-phone? I don't 
> think a Microsoft developers will ever think about Ubuntu 
> seriously enough to build a Skype version for Ubuntu-phone what 
> we already see on desktops: ubuntu skype
>  users are second category skype users.
>
> Best regards
>
> GTriderXC from Ubuntu Polish Translators


--
Sent using Dekko from my Ubuntu device