Posts about Android (RSS, JSON)

9AM — Brian X. Chen, New York Times:

For more than a decade, smartphone users everywhere have faced a major problem in how we communicate: the “green versus blue bubble” disparity.

No Brian, not everywhere. Green bubble shaming is an entirely American thing. I’ve never met anyone in Europe who takes issue with the background colour of the text messages they’re receiving.

5PM — Gruber makes a great point about why design is important even if you can’t measure “good design” like you can count app downloads, active users or time spent in the app.