Android. Version 11 was peak android and every update is a downgrade. Updating from 11 to 12 brought:
No performance upgrades
Apps no longer closing, just minimizing
Battery drains faster
Dumb UI tweaks (springing swipe etc.)
Removed options for notifications, vibration, share etc.
Weather widget stopped respecting dark theme to show some idiotic animations
and more
Version 13 only doubled down on these changes.
Constant nagging to update which you cannot disable, only postpone.
And of course you can’t go back. Would love reimage it with some custom rom but I’m afraid some apps can stop working (banking, pay, who knows what else). Fucking infuriating.
As someone who uses both, I’m always fascinated by the things that Android “takes” from Apple. It’s usually the worst of iOS and then made even more unbearable.
Like apps just minimizing. Yeah, that’s fine for iOS where the apps themselves aren’t technically running while they’re not in focus. You can have 2 iOS apps open or 60 and you still have the same effect on battery life. There’s no need for this on Android.
The nags for updates are one of the things I hate most about iOS. I get why it’s done; increased version adoption and greater cohesion across the larger scale of the OS. It’s still nonsense, though.
I was pretty down on swipe navigation, but now I’ve gotten used to it and like that I can navigate without having to reach to the bottom of my screen. I’m also very happy about Bluetooth LE but I don’t have an audio device that takes advantage of the codec yet. Anything that improves Bluetooth is great in my eyes.
Android. Version 11 was peak android and every update is a downgrade. Updating from 11 to 12 brought:
Version 13 only doubled down on these changes.
Constant nagging to update which you cannot disable, only postpone.
And of course you can’t go back. Would love reimage it with some custom rom but I’m afraid some apps can stop working (banking, pay, who knows what else). Fucking infuriating.
As someone who uses both, I’m always fascinated by the things that Android “takes” from Apple. It’s usually the worst of iOS and then made even more unbearable.
Like apps just minimizing. Yeah, that’s fine for iOS where the apps themselves aren’t technically running while they’re not in focus. You can have 2 iOS apps open or 60 and you still have the same effect on battery life. There’s no need for this on Android.
The nags for updates are one of the things I hate most about iOS. I get why it’s done; increased version adoption and greater cohesion across the larger scale of the OS. It’s still nonsense, though.
I was pretty down on swipe navigation, but now I’ve gotten used to it and like that I can navigate without having to reach to the bottom of my screen. I’m also very happy about Bluetooth LE but I don’t have an audio device that takes advantage of the codec yet. Anything that improves Bluetooth is great in my eyes.
My phone is on Android 8 and I could swear there was a dark mode option before that got removed in some update.