So I’ve been reading and watching a whole bunch of stuff recently about the User Interface (UI) of Android versus iOS. How in typical Google fashion, Android is following the general Google method of doing things. Ship fast, ship early, iterate as many times as you can.

Typically the people that are making these comments are at their hearts Mac geeks. Not in a bad way, they’ve just decided many many years ago (way before I decided to make the switch) that the Apple and Mac philosophy is the one for them. For the most part I actually agree with them.

However that isn’t to say that there isn’t an alternative. And the DIFFERENCE here is actually in people. Probably the smartest move that Google could have done is bringing Matius Duarte into the fold.

Honeycomb being the first thing that can actually be said to be his own contribution to the whole system shows a unification. Is it perfect? Hardly, but it’s MILES infront of where it used to be and it will continue in that vein as the Googlers have really started to brainwash their employees and you can see it.

My cousin went on a Google conference in Jordan (apparently a hub for creating software in the Middle East, I didn’t know that) and when he came back, honestly the stories that he was telling me and the obsession they were talking about was interesting for me. They really believe.

I agree with Gruubs about not getting the effable, it’s something you can’t describe. Be it the animation between pages, be it the screen or be it the industrial design. Is there scope for addition? Sure, but that’s the Apple way. Build a foundation and then add to it incrementally once you’ve understood exactly how to solve a problem elegantly.

From my point of view, I’m just really excited to see what the two operating systems will do in the future, and how they’ll move forward, feeding hopefully of each other’s good parts. Honeycomb is probably the first real version which you could start to consider being something unified, but hey it’s only 6 short months before the next version of iOS is out and you KNOW that it’ll push the envelope further by about 8 months for Google to catch up.

Every once in a while someone talks about WebOS (formerly Palm, now HP),