Is there a reason Chinese companies don't like the App drawer?

[Strk]

While I'm not quite ready to pull the trigger on one of these companies, I've noticed that a lot of them (Xiaomi, Meizu and Huawei come to mind) don't seem to like the app drawer? It seems like it is just a way to cause unnecessary clutter by not having it. Maybe because the iphone doesn't have one?

 

[Roland00Address]

I honestly do not know, but maybe because while there language is phonetically with letters and constants it is not written that way. Thus organizing things by A, B, C, etc do not look pleasing to the eye for instead of letters you have symbols?

I honestly do not know.

 

[Commodus]

You got it in the last sentence: lots of Chinese companies want to copy Apple. As much as us techies like to pretend that Apple is old hat, it's seen as an aspirational brand in China and other parts of the world. Heck, it has a disproportionately large share in South Korea, where LG and Samsung have the home turf advantage.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Maybe because the iphone doesn't have one?

Nailed it. All these Chinese companies that crazily skin Android (like MIUI) do it because iOS devices are so expensive in China.

 

[soccerballtux]

copying apple

 

[Strk]

It just seems so silly to remove a feature. Oppo had it originally, but for some reason got rid of it on newer devices. I believe there is just the Oneplus One, but we'll see what happens when they go to a non-Cyanogen version of Android (I believe they are doing their own thing for Lollipop).

Don't get me wrong, Sony has pretty much won me over with the direction they've been heading with their Z line, so it's not as though I was going to buy one of the Chinese brands. I was just snooping around Oppomart and noticed that quite a few of the devices have some pretty awesome specs. A few do look like an iphone clone though, so I suppose I shouldn't have been too surprised by them making the OS more like it.

 

[aranatecharete]

Because Apple is readily available in China but does also has a hefty price tag so as these companies cannot have IOS on their devices but Android, so they choose it with a variation of LIKE IOS to keep it simple and also that they don't favor alphabetical order so just want to stick to their SYMBOLS PREFERRED design where the user arranges the apps as he desires to have them (again like in IOS) and btw Apple is craved in China more than anywhere in the world...