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| The Gingerbread MotoBlur launcher (No-one does fragmentation like Motorola) |
Android comes in many flavours. From community builds like
CyanogenMod, AOKP, and MIUI, to corporate flavours like Samsung’s Touchwiz,
HTC’s Sense and Motorola’s MotoBlur, there’s no shortage of variants – ‘pure’
Android is a rare thing to find in the wild, generally restricted to Nexus
devices and low-end handsets. Enthusiasts and power users praise the likes of
CyanogenMod for their plethora of customisation options and hands-off
approaches, while condemning Touchwiz and Sense et al for much the opposite.
This criticism is not restricted to esoteric cliques that trawl XDA-Developers
and Rootzwiki, however, as well-respected reviewers from the more mainstream
side of tech journalism regularly denounce these manufacturer skins as well.
Curious why anyone would defend the likes of Touchwiz and Sense? Read on, after the jump.
