Thread: Maemo Advocacy
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#233
Ragnar-
In general, Company A wants to control the entire experience of using service A, promote the features of service A in exactly the manner they wish to promote them. With a unified UI there is always a compromise: they cannot have all the buttons in exactly the places where they want them to be, there needs to be some kind of balance between all the services. So there is a rather strong logic. Considering the overall user experience of the device it's perhaps an unfortunate logic, if you choose to see it that way.
Surely that doesn't prevent them from using the same database at least? If the schema doesn't suit exactly, that seems like a simple change for Nokia to make, especially of they want to see that 3rd party app on there, while still enforcing some kind of standard.