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Android 12
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Re: Android 12
#12Anyone else just stopped keeping track of what version of Android their phone is on? I used to know this stuff, but these days couldn't care less.
For real.
For me smartphones are just good enough.
They all take nice pictures, they're all fast enough, they all have a nice screen, nice touch controls and nice UI.
It just doesn't matter as much anymore.
The only thing on here that made me go "oh cool" is the extra dim mode, my 4a really likes scorching my retinas at night.
Re: Android 12
#13Anyone else just stopped keeping track of what version of Android their phone is on? I used to know this stuff, but these days couldn't care less.
I would like to. But the usability and quality of life improvements on each new version of Android are pretty tangible.
I went back to my trusty old OP3 running Android 9 I think, for a bit, and the overall experience took a hit. Everything felt kinda clunky now coming from Android 11, even though I always loved the clean Android implementation of the OP3.
Re: Android 12
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The names were not only dessert-based, but also alphabetical. The last one to be named in this fashion was Pie. They probably couldn't find a good dessert name starting with Q, so they discontinued the practice. OS X names used to be big cats too until they ran out of good ones. Now it's locations in California. Who knows what it will be next.
What a lost opportunity to have an Android Quindim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindim
Or Qottab. It's not that there are no desserts with Q, but there are none that are as well-known and widely-used in the anglosphere as pies and marshmallows.
Re: Android 12
#15did they stop giving these cutesy dessert-related nicknames for some reason?
> Going with a new naming scheme for the 10th version of Android makes a bit of sense; it’s a landmark release. Still, given how difficult it is to put a common dessert to the letter Q, I noted to Google’s Sameer Samat, VP of product management for Android, that it was awfully convenient that Google picked this release to switch up the naming scheme. “We’re going to deal with that skepticism,” he says. Google’s actual reason for switching the naming, he says, isn’t that Q is hard, but rather that desserts aren’t very inclusive. “We have some good names, but in each and every case they leave a part of the world out,” he argues. Android is a global brand, used by more people in India and Brazil than in the US, so going with an English word for the dessert leaves some regions out. Pie isn’t always a dessert, “lollipop” can be hard to pronounce in some regions, and “marshmallows aren’t really a thing in a lot of places,” Samat says. Numbers, at least, are universal.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/22/20827231/android-10-q-goo...
Re: Android 12
#16Anyone else just stopped keeping track of what version of Android their phone is on? I used to know this stuff, but these days couldn't care less.
Since 6.0 there were no real changes in android. It will be better if they just concentrate on fixing bugs instead of claiming something was done.
Re: Android 12
#17How many things will I have to fix for this release?
It's better if you don't know.
Re: Android 12
#18I love Android, at least on my TV set top box. I haven't used it on my phone since the Samsung GS3, almost a decade now. I like it and as a Windows user would love the additional integration but I need a "mini" phone and I want someone to match Apple's longterm support. People (don't know they) want Microsoft's foldable device and a phone like my 12 mini, but on Android. If Microsoft or Amazon ever decides to fit the void, I'd be back in. I enjoy the heck out of my FireTV devices, and have ever since I moved off of my AppleTV gen2 box, which was the last one I know of that could be easily jailbroken.
Re: Android 12
#19did they stop giving these cutesy dessert-related nicknames for some reason?
The names were not only dessert-based, but also alphabetical. The last one to be named in this fashion was Pie. They probably couldn't find a good dessert name starting with Q, so they discontinued the practice. OS X names used to be big cats too until they ran out of good ones. Now it's locations in California. Who knows what it will be next.
Quiche could've worked
Re: Android 12
#20Looks like grandparent mode is enabled by default with all the whitespace and even lower information density. What's the endgame? In 20 years only a single letter at a time on the screen?
>Any information processed in Private Compute Core requires explicit user action before it can be shared with Google (...)
If they know everything about the data going in and coming out it's still useless.
Also what important APIs did they axe now?