As important as fluidity is, there are more aspects thatdefinehow useable a device is, and Windows 8 does not perform well in terms of notifications or visual heirarchy of information. It was designed to be pretty and contemporary before making usability considerations.
A nexus 4 is prriced as mid range and out performs everything at the same price point.
I ave a controversial one that’s more current Android hardware and not the phones
WHY NO REPLACEMENTFORUSB?
It’s such a flimsy connector, and the micro (mini…whatever) USB ports seem to frequently fail.
Apple were lambasted for the lightning connector, and the fact that it’s proprietary is horrendous, but in terms of how solid it feels, it’s really nice.
Android needs to adopt a new standard.
I’m also not going to mention the poor ecosystem of peripherals, and lack of support from indie dev studios.
I think the only reason we complain is that we have no choice. That is what causes frustration.
Your car analogy isn’t great either, as some would prefer a better handling, faster, and more practical car than a ridiculously oversized 4×4, that doesn’t perform the everyday job of getting to where I want to be efficiently and quickly.
Google should just make the notification pane more feature rich, so you can do similar functionality in there. Wouldn’t be so intrusive but as functional.
