And your been overly vague with your criticisms in a desperate attempt to prove... well I have no idea what your trying to prove really, and I'm not sure that you do.
So again.
Why don't you post what you think an active notification app does in your own words. Don't go all coy.
You're missing it completely. Active notifications and active display are entirely new and you do only get them on Motorola's phones.
It is essentially a 'smart' notification system. It knows when the phone is in your pocket, knows when its sitting on your desk, and knows when you're driving. Depending on what you are doing, the phone behaves differently.
"And Moto X is pretty smart about it, showing the clock when you take the phone out of your pocket, or by picking it up if it's left face-down. Need to see what time it is, or if you have a notification waiting? Just look at the phone. Don't press the power button.
It's handy as hell. And it's good on battery life. (That's something to remember before you start yelling for a certain editor to show his screen-on time. Less is better, by design.)"
http://www.androidcafe.net/inside-the-moto-x-active-display-androidcafe-72040.html
"Active Display is a great addition to the Moto X. It's easy to overthink Active Display on the Moto X. It's also easy to underestimate its impact. What we've got here is a quick and easy way to get information onto your display without having to hit the power button and firing up the whole screen. From there you can decide whether the notification is important enough to act on Oh, no! Timmy's stuck in a well! or or whether it can wait till later Yes, I'll take out the trash. Later.
Think about that for a minute. How many times a day do you pull your phone out of your pocket to check the time? Or to check for a notification? Each time you're hitting the power button. On LCD displays, that's what you're stuck with. AMOLED displays let you fire up individual pixels, and that's what Motorola's doing here. And it's done it pretty well."
The active voice is also incredibly useful. Phones have had voice recognition for a long time, but i like most have never found much use for it.
An example, if you are driving and need directions, you can say 'Ok Google' at any time, the phone beeps, and you can then say 'Navigate to ...' and it will navigate to your requested destination.
Other android phones cannot do this without physical interaction. They do not listen all the time. That's a unique feature enabled by Motorola's new X8 computing platform.
There is more, but the point is this is not like any other android phone I have seen (I've got a Droid Maxx, but the software / functionality is the same as the Moto X).
Worth noting, it does all of this and yet under use the android experience is very near 'stock'.
So what we have is some close integration with Google Now, a sophisticated active notification system that no other device has, and yet a very pure Android experience. You can really see Google's philosophy and direction in the Motorola phones.
