That is possible, but if it is made a more open source application to the public then some developers may utilise this in their advantage.
In its current stance as the screenshot below, there are only limited options... ones that can be controlled by the samsung eco system and limit the amount of updates.
New categories would be needed if made more open source. Current affairs, News, weather perhaps...amongst others.
But then how much control does the user have for which news articles or weather providers, they prefer. I.e. can they say they want only bbc news updates, and NOT sky news for example. Maybe prefer Google weather and not weather.com.
It then becomes very competitive between app vendors... to post the news first.. and get an upper hand. The news articles become more frequently added. All of a sudden to manage your now bar becomes harder to manage. Just to get to the sports update that you sre watching keenly... or to the music player bar which takes a lot of scrolling through spammed articles.
If it is made open source then some vendors may wish to push updates to now bar articles many multiple times a day.
So where does the competition for now bar end when it becomes a more open source development tool.
I would suggest that this concept is a good idea that you have and one you should add feedback for. But I also think that with this being a very new ui7 feature that Samsung would want to have the control over these considerations. I am also sure we will see some new options for categories added, as the newest oneui7 becomes more mature. I think as it stands it is just testing the water for it's usefulness. As most would agree... it isnt that useful at this stage... but remember beta is still being completed and the s25u are still on their release software (albeit a minor security update last week).
It will get better i am sure.
Smiley
In its current stance as the screenshot below, there are only limited options... ones that can be controlled by the samsung eco system and limit the amount of updates.
New categories would be needed if made more open source. Current affairs, News, weather perhaps...amongst others.
But then how much control does the user have for which news articles or weather providers, they prefer. I.e. can they say they want only bbc news updates, and NOT sky news for example. Maybe prefer Google weather and not weather.com.
It then becomes very competitive between app vendors... to post the news first.. and get an upper hand. The news articles become more frequently added. All of a sudden to manage your now bar becomes harder to manage. Just to get to the sports update that you sre watching keenly... or to the music player bar which takes a lot of scrolling through spammed articles.
If it is made open source then some vendors may wish to push updates to now bar articles many multiple times a day.
So where does the competition for now bar end when it becomes a more open source development tool.
I would suggest that this concept is a good idea that you have and one you should add feedback for. But I also think that with this being a very new ui7 feature that Samsung would want to have the control over these considerations. I am also sure we will see some new options for categories added, as the newest oneui7 becomes more mature. I think as it stands it is just testing the water for it's usefulness. As most would agree... it isnt that useful at this stage... but remember beta is still being completed and the s25u are still on their release software (albeit a minor security update last week).
It will get better i am sure.
Smiley
