I already hated Android 12 for overhauling the aesthetic for the worse: making volume sliders obscenely wide, making the notification shade just an over-enlarged mess, and the half-assed implementation of Material You. On my Pixel 3 that I used at the time, this change alone made me root a phone for the first time just to fix all of it.
Two updates later and once again Google fucks up something that was perfectly fine before and turns me off from their operating system yet again. While I’m nowhere close to using an iPhone, I may just use GrapheneOS if I have to switch to a phone that comes with Android 14+ out of the box.
An update in the last year added a “feature” where, when I search something, if my query is even vaguely close to the name of an app on my phone, Android will open that app instead of doing my search. I, for the life of me, haven’t been able to figure out how to disable it. That alone made me hate Android.
I’m still on 11 for this exact reason I keep getting the popup every so often on my pixel and I’m like “nah you can get fucked”
It’s like they think everyone has the eyes of a 70 year old and everything needs to be massive. So much wasted screen space. Like hey here’s a high resolution 120hz screen with everything scaled up 400 percent. It just stinks of useless, clueless, talentless design employees looking for a promotion, desperate to change stuff that doesn’t need changed - I mean look at that ugly shit they clearly aren’t even fucking good at design.
It sounds dumb but it fucking infuriates me because I use and rely on my device for so much now I don’t understand why I get zero choice in how it looks and how I interact with it.
You used to be able to flash mods and change up elements, colours, themes and add UI tweaks and now we have nothing but what they give you.
They’re a fucking cunt of a company and the only other options are limited and just as shit and locked down.
The early days of custom android roms showed the power and creativity of community development and it sucks this is what we have now.
The mobile space desperately needs a new OS more than ever or we’re fucked forever.
I get that Pinephone is trying and it’s massively expensive to get good hardware to market but a 1.1ghz A64 processor and 3GB ram, 720 screen and 5mp camera is technology from more than a decade ago and isn’t enticing in the slightest. They’re pissing away time, talent and money and will never grow at the rate they need to if they want to get into the market in any way that makes a dent if this is their best offering.
Absolutely agree, I use to get excited for new updates to anything, cuz like “yay new things” or “old things but less buggy”
But recently I’ve been absolutely sulking over the modern software updating paradigm of shipping perfectly fine updates with completely useless UI changes that absolutely nobody wanted so tech companies can justify having an in-house UI team
Like my phone, on Android 11 I set the custom color to a really nice red color, i matched it to my wallpaper and everything, I loved it
And then Android 12 hits, and that lovely red gets replaced with some bologna enthusiast’s spamcore aesthetic
I’m sorry, Material “You”?. Nah this is Material Somebody Else fr
And I can’t do anything to change the colors of my own phone
I hate being a slave to UI teams, let me change the colors atleast, damnit
I already hated Android 12 for overhauling the aesthetic for the worse: making volume sliders obscenely wide, making the notification shade just an over-enlarged mess, and the half-assed implementation of Material You. On my Pixel 3 that I used at the time, this change alone made me root a phone for the first time just to fix all of it.
Two updates later and once again Google fucks up something that was perfectly fine before and turns me off from their operating system yet again. While I’m nowhere close to using an iPhone, I may just use GrapheneOS if I have to switch to a phone that comes with Android 14+ out of the box.
An update in the last year added a “feature” where, when I search something, if my query is even vaguely close to the name of an app on my phone, Android will open that app instead of doing my search. I, for the life of me, haven’t been able to figure out how to disable it. That alone made me hate Android.
I’m still on 11 for this exact reason I keep getting the popup every so often on my pixel and I’m like “nah you can get fucked”
It’s like they think everyone has the eyes of a 70 year old and everything needs to be massive. So much wasted screen space. Like hey here’s a high resolution 120hz screen with everything scaled up 400 percent. It just stinks of useless, clueless, talentless design employees looking for a promotion, desperate to change stuff that doesn’t need changed - I mean look at that ugly shit they clearly aren’t even fucking good at design.
It sounds dumb but it fucking infuriates me because I use and rely on my device for so much now I don’t understand why I get zero choice in how it looks and how I interact with it.
You used to be able to flash mods and change up elements, colours, themes and add UI tweaks and now we have nothing but what they give you.
They’re a fucking cunt of a company and the only other options are limited and just as shit and locked down.
The early days of custom android roms showed the power and creativity of community development and it sucks this is what we have now.
The mobile space desperately needs a new OS more than ever or we’re fucked forever.
I get that Pinephone is trying and it’s massively expensive to get good hardware to market but a 1.1ghz A64 processor and 3GB ram, 720 screen and 5mp camera is technology from more than a decade ago and isn’t enticing in the slightest. They’re pissing away time, talent and money and will never grow at the rate they need to if they want to get into the market in any way that makes a dent if this is their best offering.
Absolutely agree, I use to get excited for new updates to anything, cuz like “yay new things” or “old things but less buggy”
But recently I’ve been absolutely sulking over the modern software updating paradigm of shipping perfectly fine updates with completely useless UI changes that absolutely nobody wanted so tech companies can justify having an in-house UI team
Like my phone, on Android 11 I set the custom color to a really nice red color, i matched it to my wallpaper and everything, I loved it
And then Android 12 hits, and that lovely red gets replaced with some bologna enthusiast’s spamcore aesthetic
I’m sorry, Material “You”?. Nah this is Material Somebody Else fr
And I can’t do anything to change the colors of my own phone
I hate being a slave to UI teams, let me change the colors atleast, damnit
I am so close to just rooting my phone ngl