Introducing Android 9 Pie • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by ax__ » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

johnsea wrote: post #40

Great, system navigation looks like Palm webOS...

praise duarte

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by ythn » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

tjungblut wrote: post #8

abhiminator wrote: post #5

Surprised with the naming, did Google just miss a great opportunity for collaborating with candy manufacturers like they did with Nestle for Android 4.4 'KitKat'?

me too, but what would be a world-renowned candy that starts with 'P'?

Payday

Peanut Brittle

Popcorn

Popsicle

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by pgeorgi » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #55

Android Oreo, one year later in spite of Treble, 12.1%

Treble (which launched with Oreo) requires a different partition layout, a rather significant change to do on a running system.

If anything, Oreo would see lower uptake due to Treble, although that's mitigated by not making Treble a requirement for Oreo upgrades (ie. even if your device was upgraded to Oreo from something < 8.0, Treble still won't help you)

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by craftyguy » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #20

haldean wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also looks like the back button is gone... how is that supposed to work?

That might not be a bad thing. I've used Android for a while, but I'm not always clear if/when the back button will do in-app navigation vs. return me to the phone's home screen.

I've always regarded the back button as a completely random thing.

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

Surprised not to see mention of the cutout stuff yet. It seems pretty dumb to me that Google is jumping on board with this ridiculous feature. Maybe this'll be one of those Dropbox-style HN comments which in hindsight looks misled, but I honestly can't find any redeeming factors to the cutout idea.

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by TeMPOraL » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

dingo_bat wrote: post #57

Reading through the list of improvements leaves me quite underwhelmed. I thought the Oreo upgrade was basically useless, but this is literally a service pack style update. Also amusing to see "battery improvements" in every release without anything to show for it.

> Also amusing to see "battery improvements" in every release without anything to show for it.

Whatever improvements are made are most likely quickly eaten by the cruft accumulating both in the system and in applications. The latter update frequently, which means you have a steady stream of bloat coming in...

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by ythn » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

But can we get scheduled SMS yet? Samsung has had this feature for ages...

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by pgeorgi » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:43 PM UTC

stephengillie wrote: post #3

What happened to the "3rd party brand" naming convention? No payday for PayDay?

KitKat and Oreo were brands with international reach. On the other hand, what's "PayDay"?

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by TeMPOraL » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

ythn wrote: post #72

tjungblut wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

me too, but what would be a world-renowned candy that starts with 'P'?

Payday Peanut Brittle Popcorn Popsicle

> Popsicle

Wait what, did someone trademark this name?

Re: Introducing Android 9 Pie

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Post by yoz-y » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

NSAID wrote: post #43

tjungblut wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

me too, but what would be a world-renowned candy that starts with 'P'?

I was pulling for (unbranded) Petit four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_four

I've been living in France for 16 years and eaten a lot of petits fours. Today I learned that they can be sweet? I've never seen somebody use the term for sweet foot.