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On The Verge 001 clip: Android design chief Matias Duarte plays "Rate the skin" On The Verge

2011-11-15
so we talked about the kindle fire I we were just talking about a you and I discussed it before it came out and you said you liked the fire because it had a really different skin and you liked the fact that it had been reskinned let's just get a look at this again obviously this doesn't look anything like the android that you guys how much you're shutting down again they put this button in the worst place okay I don't like that part but you don't like that part but you like the fact that this doesn't look like Android yes I mean I like the fact that they are taking Android and they're trying to do something right really different with it right I always got the impression that you weren't crazy about skinning but i want to i want to bring out a couple of different tablets and devices here and get your opinion on what you think of the skins for these phones so here's one this is HTC Sense right you want to go ahead and yeah yeah what's your opinion on this yeah this these guys you know they've got that 3d bling going on you know we talk about sexy moments when we're designing software we always kind of make fun of you know where's the sex appeal saxy moment for you right now not for me personally huh but but these guys these guys are paying attention and they're trying to do something you know a little bit less you like this i think i Signori you get in it I'm not gonna give it out you don't score design what are you talking about you out no guess you'd ever read The Verge how about this one hotly contested TouchWiz seems somewhat reminiscent of other phone os's woody what do you make of TouchWiz look at that now now what I like the TouchWiz was the the tablet version where you can drag up and get your way without doc yet do you feel that this is there you know Apple and Samsung you're in heated battle right now you know about this do you feel like it's is a derivative of objection overruled I'm sorry you can't talk you actually hockey yeah so then you do think it's riveted interesting Oh you guys heard it here first so this is a this is a really crazy one this is the grid 10 this is made by fusion garage I got us just signed to unlock here that work have you ever used this before I haven't I haven't we just got one of these but I haven't actually and what do you think of this I think it's really cool that they're doing something totally different i mean amazon went one way but it still has a metaphor that people recognize these guys are really taking risks of this is it possible that you like the ones that are really crazy because they look less like the stuff that you do we want it you want a havoc if nobody's willing to take risks then everything will be derivative hmmm that's a good place to end it I think Matthias thank you so much for coming really appreciate it
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