It seems like regressing or breaking typical functionality is simply a tactic so companies can bring it back in 5 years and call it innovation.
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Peffse@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI will never understand why they removed the bluetooth tap to toggle, and replaced it with an open to a separate screen. That’s what long-press was for!
AnabolicSpudsman07@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
My Pixel dis/enables it on a press. Long press for devices.
Zorque@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Works that way on my Samsung as well, you just have to hit the circle button instead of the larger bluetooth button that encompasses it.
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
The mobile companies are slowly hiding all radio controls to guarantee the user is too inconvenienced to keep turning them off. Guarantees more enriched telemetry gathering.
Happens at the app level too, although it may be less malicious and more crappy coding. Watch Duty on Android, for example, is really a pain of an app in that regard. You can disable android’s WiFi/Bluetooth scanning, but their app uses that Google service specifically instead of raw GPS, so you lose the ability to get location-based wildfire alerts. If you don’t consent to Google stalking.
What a trade-off, if you don’t give away your location Metadata, you can’t be kept safe from fires?