Can’t wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Y’all don’t understand semantic versioning.

    Google does a major release pretty much yearly.

    Major releases are for breaking changes.

  • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    They finally have multiline app names in beta for the pixel… Idk why it’s taking them so long. My old crusty motorola displays long names just fine; its crazy that it took until Android 15 just to get a beta of that.

    • SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      It’s probably something like “why would you want to waste precious resources on something so small” or whatever, which just leads to shitty messes everywhere

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    12 hours ago

    More updates = better, of course!

    Most of the updates seem to be features or UI changes that nobody asked for.

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      10 hours ago

      Some of them have been pretty nice. However, the release’s are more frequent without the changes and improvements. I like all the new APIs and theming but those aren’t something you can do in 3 months.

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      11 hours ago

      Got Android 15 recently. The volume bar is twice as big now! I thought it was just a visual difference but volume is now more finely tuned, as in it goes from 0 to 20 instead of 0 to 10 and steps by 1. (Not sure of the real numbers)

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      11 hours ago

      Last update that had a noticeable GUI change for me was when they switched navigation default from 3-button to gesture. Fortunately they still have the option for 3-button.

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        11 hours ago

        I liked the introduction of gestures, so much screen space was lost to those buttons.

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          I’ve dabbled with them, but I find myself accidentally triggering them, so I’ve always gone back to buttons.

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      10 hours ago

      I can remember updating but it is almost a pointless exercise. (lineage OS requires manual version updates)

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    12 hours ago

    Because if they slow down people won’t upgrade as fast because the manufacturers pledge “X number of versions” updates not years. So if Google slows down manufacturers would have to support longer. Gotta keep that money flowing in because Google gets a cut of sales.

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      11 hours ago

      Wut? The major manufacturers I’ve paid attention to, who’ve made update support promises, have done “X years” not “X versions”

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        10 hours ago

        It’s not true for either one. Both Apple and Android OEMs pledge support for years not versions.

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          9 hours ago

          I never claimed they did, but the fact remains that my iPhone 4S was rendered nearly unusable after the iOS 7 “upgrade,” which had such a massive system load that only one app could run at a time.

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      9 hours ago

      They are hurting themselves in the long run. People get bored of continuous updates and it means that each release gets way less attention. They should do minor version bumps if anything. Do a 14.1, 14.2 and so on

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        6 hours ago

        They are doing a major release every year. . Then they do 2-5 feature releases every year. The they do constant bug fix releases/and security updates.

        Often they change shit just for the sake of changing shit with no apparent rhyme or reason. I tried to figure out how to multi-task on my work iPad. Every release they change it and it’s all hidden commands. I finally just disabled multi-tasking and use my phone as an extra screen.

        It’s seriously much worse than my android phones. On my pixel I install a launcher, set it up how I like it and never see most of the changes between versions.

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        8 hours ago

        Apple releases a new major version every year, usually in September. What has Googles cadence been?

      • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
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        8 hours ago

        I was referring to the marginal changes between consecutive releases replying to:

        Can’t wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12