[General Topics] eaglesteve:
LOL. Very civilised and cool person you are. I can be as civilized as you are in this post

You seem confused as to whether you're evaluating the need for certain characteristics from developers or from users' perspective.

So Android is more of a developer's OS, according to you? That's the reason you like it more? No problem with that. If I'm a developers I might have the same feeling too. But the purpose of this thread is to look at it from the end user perspective. Not developers, not hardware vendor. That's the terms of reference for this thread.

However, it's not to say that I do not like Android. I'm merely pointing out attributes of the phone which although are attractive to developers and would be developers, it is of no interest to the end users.

I did and the answer I got is here, from cyanogen mod forum itself:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?/topic/265-feature-request-volume-button-music-skipping/?

I bet you're lying about :-). If not tell me the name of the tool to prove it. :-)

The answers were given to me by an "Android evengelist" on this forum. It was not mine. I'll go back to him with your answer and see what he says.

You can sound indignant all your want. It is a legitimate user need which many of us using winmo devices really really long for. Here is one of many places where people says the lowest volume is still too loud. If you've been around for as long as I had, you would have known that it is not just me that want finer volume control for their phone.

Your food calary example is a stupid example. A better example would be a jean manufacturer who produces trousers with waist measurements that goes in 6 inches increments rather than say 1 or 2 inches.

When did you suddenly become against users having choices and flexibilities?

Again, this is about users having the choice. Try seeing this from end user's perspective rather than from a lazy developers'. You will understand once you do that. When I was a programmer and analyst (way back in 1982), I was also guilty of seeing and designing system completely from the perspective of cost and effort on my part, and had always been trying to sway users to accept solutions that they do not prefer. I could get away with it because the CIO was supportive of containing development cost. But this is a consumer product, and consumers can express what they want with their wallet. They will buy from whoever that can satisfy all the little little things that make user experience more complete. Developers either have to adapt or have their product left unbought. Yes, we have become rather picky these days, because we can afford to due to competitions. Without competition we have no choice but to take whatever ****s given to us. It's with the same mind set that I ***** about the small screen size of iPhone, and a person could tell me I don't need a 4.3 inch screen of Supersonic. Well, I like to factor that in, although at the end of the day I will have to look at the total picture. I will not be the only person wanting a 4.3 inch screen, and not the only person wanting to play music videos (in addition to having the choice of watching the video) with the screen off. I know because people talked about and said they want to be able to do it. I was'n the first to look for such feature. May be you personally don't think about this, but please don't pretent your requirements are the only legitimate ones. You may be ignorant, but please don't be arrogant as well. So please respect the requirements of another person.

For the sake of giving you some much needed education, let me also tell you that some of us are into world musics. Many songs I like are for example Korean songs which I can only find on YouTube. I don't speak or understand Korean but love many of these songs and want to just listen to the music without looking at the video. The world is not just your little state you know? I've worked in 14 countries so my taste of music may be different from yours.