we didn’t know it at the time, bot upon the release of android 7.1, nougat, we had reached the pinnacle of the technology. everything since then has either been deck chair re-arranging or the slow removal of features we once liked only to have them re-introduced 1-3 years later as a new feature. the most insulting is how completely useless google assistant became in 2020 only to now have features we had in 2014 sold to us as innovation and proof that gemini isn’t a total waste of ram.
i can’t speak on when iphone users hit this pinnacle, i never could figure ios out. completely unintuitive os tbh, despite what its adherents will tell you. it’s mostly only intuitive if you have prior experience with apple products
my initial plan was to say the smartphone peaked much earlier, but i decided to say the last good release was as late as i could, in good conscience. i wanted avoid any potential sensationalism in my already somewhat sensationalist thesis (one that i do actually believe it, but i know i could come across sensational)
so i threw myself, a tech-y, but somewhat unprincipled until 2023 about specifics, person. when was the last time i found my phone useful and not burdensome? 2019. when was the last time i remember feeling like my phone was improving? 2017
everything since then has either been deck chair re-arranging or the slow removal of features we once liked only to have them re-introduced 1-3 years later
Perfectly succinct. I cannot put into words how much I hate this, at this point I am entirely fed-up with Android because of this shit.
Nothing more infuriating than reading what changed on a new version and realizing all they did was move a bunch of shit around and introduce useless “”" features"“” meanwhile actually useful features for the rest of us who want to use our phones as more than a toy languish on and on (Floating Windows? Multitasking that doesn’t suck ass? Desktop mode?)
Reading the update log on new Android versions has been giving me brain damage since Android 9
The problem isn’t the modern smartphone, it’s the way we’re forced to use it.
we didn’t know it at the time, bot upon the release of android 7.1, nougat, we had reached the pinnacle of the technology. everything since then has either been deck chair re-arranging or the slow removal of features we once liked only to have them re-introduced 1-3 years later as a new feature. the most insulting is how completely useless google assistant became in 2020 only to now have features we had in 2014 sold to us as innovation and proof that gemini isn’t a total waste of ram.
i can’t speak on when iphone users hit this pinnacle, i never could figure ios out. completely unintuitive os tbh, despite what its adherents will tell you. it’s mostly only intuitive if you have prior experience with apple products
I think you’re wrong. They stopped innovating with Kitkat (4.4). And btw, the whole mobile GUI evolution is stolen from custom ROMs.
my initial plan was to say the smartphone peaked much earlier, but i decided to say the last good release was as late as i could, in good conscience. i wanted avoid any potential sensationalism in my already somewhat sensationalist thesis (one that i do actually believe it, but i know i could come across sensational)
so i threw myself, a tech-y, but somewhat unprincipled until 2023 about specifics, person. when was the last time i found my phone useful and not burdensome? 2019. when was the last time i remember feeling like my phone was improving? 2017
Perfectly succinct. I cannot put into words how much I hate this, at this point I am entirely fed-up with Android because of this shit.
Nothing more infuriating than reading what changed on a new version and realizing all they did was move a bunch of shit around and introduce useless “”" features"“” meanwhile actually useful features for the rest of us who want to use our phones as more than a toy languish on and on (Floating Windows? Multitasking that doesn’t suck ass? Desktop mode?)
Reading the update log on new Android versions has been giving me brain damage since Android 9
I did that on my Galaxy S3 back then.
Yeah Samsung is the only OEM currently implementing shit I care about, I lost hope for Stock Android
Nah, it was Xposed hacks. Samsung preferred to make boot animations proprietary instead, so you had to buy their tool.
The good days were you could root and Xposed and Custom ROM to your hearts content without having to worry about that PlayIntegrity shit…