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Originally Posted by jethro_static

I know it is opensource. By theory. Try to modify Googles android and call it ur own then sell it. See how much lawsuit U get.
That is why they give U firmware updates. To secure the OS from vulnerabilities.

That's just it. You can do that. It's under an open source license. Google released the code. Google doesn't even control the development of Android anymore. They released all of the code (save for the SDK) under opensource license. The Open Handset Alliance now develops Android (which of course Google is a member of).

There is however no benefit of developing Android and building your own release, unless you are cooking up custom ROMs. With such a huge industry supporting the Open Handset Alliance, anyone trying to develop their own release of android is pissing into a 50mph wind.

On the Android part. I'm taking programming classes right now, and maybe i will learn to appreciate the OS more (not like i don't now tho), after I can get deeper into it. As of now tho, I kinda got bored of how simple the UI is... Simple, productive and easy to use? Sure! No bashing there.

The concept of "widgets" have been around for a while now with phones. WebOS open the doors to more creative thinking. They took what they saw in our own winmo "visual task switcher" and the Xperia X1 "Panels"(which IMO doooggged the phone down bad), implemented a similar idea with their "Cards" and hit the ground running.

Why do I have a feeling that Sense UI will become standard for all HTC-Manufactured Android phones? Atleast until something better comes along... And didn't I read somewhere that its called "HTC Sense UI" and not "Android Sense UI"

Keep digging into it, if you like total control of your OS, then you will love it, especially when you learn to harness that power.

WebOS has a pretty interface.... but I'm not sure I follow you when you say it opened the door to more creative thinking if the basis of their UI was around already. Really the current crop of UI's aren't all that innovative, they have existed for quite a few years , Finger Swipe navigation, customize Panels/Screens, add your own widgets. These days the implementations just get prettier and prettier.

I think you misunderstood when I said Sense UI is part of the OS. Android gives you access to all of the core processes to Telephony (making calls, sending messages, etc etc), and the other hardware functions. As a developer you can choose to implement whatever interface you want to use those capabilities. Compiled and cooked right into the OS. With Windows phones, it has always been that Windows Mobile boots up, the windows UI comes up, and then whatever UI (SPB, Touch Flo, Titanium, etc) is added on top starts.

Sense UI is the interface, not a pretty package on top of one; when the phone Starts, you are in Sense UI. Linux is great like that, it gives developers and users the power to define their own UI. HTC just happened to develop this one. It's just like defining GNOME, KDE, etc as your GUI for a PC based Linux Distro. It's part of the OS... not software running on top of the stock UI. Much more efficient.