Android 16 review: Post-hype
Android 16 review: Post-hype
arstechnica.com
Android 16 review: Post-hype
To call Android 16 underwhelming is an understatement.
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Doh.
It's like Microsoft office trying for the 36285th time to sell some new shit feature in office.
Meanwhile office online still is so horribly bad that it's more comedy than word processor. I'm currently cursed with having to write documents in there and it's kist not possible. Just writing a text document without it crashing every 5 minutes (and with each crash also half way corrupting my save files) is too much to ask
Just stop it with these big releases, just make a well working base line and then slowly weekly add some small new feat until it's complete and then you only do security upgrades. Not everything needs a new library from scratch, thank you very much
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It's understandable though. Just like they explain at the end of the article. Phones are established products with established paradigms at this point. We expect them to work just like they do work.
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I don't subscribe to that idea. The Jedi stuff was cool, Material 3 Expressive is cool, adding Monet to Wear OS is cool, the thermometer is cool, the AI that Apple's added to Apple Health is cool. There's a tonne of room for growth, it's just Sundar Pichai lacks imagination.
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Android version upgrades haven't felt meaningful to me for a long time. I'm surprised people still get so excited about them (and angry when their manufacturer is slow to push the upgrade out).
Am not excited at the slightest. I've learned my lessons.
Google is doing most of the feature development behind closed doors and very specific to google products. Even then, most of their own apps mess up every update. For someone who doesn't use any google specific apps, It's scary to update early and then have app incompatibility bugs/issues ruin the experience. I'll give it a few more months before I even think of updating.