How is that much different than the last 50 years?
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Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
This makes me think how fucked it is that we really only have 2 choices. Android or ios. And Android isn’t really getting any better. And it shits me it’s owned by Google.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 days ago
DrMartinu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
At least the US government was trying to fix it back then.
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
Now the CEO gets invited to the white house to show off how they exploit your privacy for profit.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Are you sure it’s not getting better? This morning, my Pixel updated to take away all my corners again. It’s been what, 4 years since they last made everything rounded and bubbly? My wifi bar and cellular bar are now different stacks of noodles. Improvements nobody knew they needed.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
iOS just got a fairly major overhaul to its UI too. Liquid Glass, they’re calling it. Screenshots don’t really look great but using it since yesterday, I actually prefer it. Feels a little retro-futuristic. Buttons have clearly defined edges again, everything is now transparent, and it has the same sort of distortion you’d get with those glass blocks that used to be popular in swimming pools and such (at least around here, not sure if that was universal). Probably my favourite look of iOS actually. That might be a super unpopular opinion, I’m not sure. I haven’t kept up on community opinions of iOS in a long time.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Similarly, I fell out of the android/pixel communities when I left reddit. I don’t know what’s popular, either. I’d guess Lemmy generally agrees with me, but we’re not the general population. I just want my piece of informational technology to keep it simple to get information. New functions are cool, power-thirsty UI animations and changes to familiar UI elements every 3 months is not (imo)
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Wait what.
Can you show a picture?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
droid-life.com/…/android-16-teases-secret-ui-upda…
Pixel, specifically. My 7 is what just updated. Blur through drawers. At this point, I can’t remember if my app icons were already circles, but now I’m looking at them now again and still hate them. Sliders now have detached bar indicators. Cartoonish status icons. It’s another step into iPhone styling to, I guess, tackle a market demo that thinks the phone market is Samsung vs iphone.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
The one on the right, yeah? droid-life.com/…/Android-16-New-Volume-Sliders-76…
Weird!