Android 16 is here
Android 16 is here
Features:
- Some small back-incompatibilities to irritate devs.
- Moving menues around to irritate users.
- More logs to spy on users.
- More lags and freezes to stimulate upgrades.
- Some evil shit for the sake of evil.
- New wallpapers.
- Some AI shit nobody asked for.
- ... More shit...
- Even more shit...
Nothing really useful. What I would like to see is better battery life and truly Open Source Android which can be easily degoogled and customized and works on many different devices. An entire ecosystem of Android mods, like me have for Linux. Yeah, that would be nice.
Small updates are fine but I find it a bit deceptive to increase the version number from 15 to 16 just for this
New OS versions feel like threats.
Poor Seang Chau. They wrote this blog post in a total of three paragraphs, but Google was still like "WOULD YOU LIKE AN AI SUMMARY?" at the top.
Literally took me about 45 seconds to read all of the features, but Google is over here burning down another rainforest to process an AI summary of a three paragraph blog post with three pictures.
Three whole paragraphs?! tl;dr
These are all app features, not OS features.
The emoji thing is built into the keyboard, but it doesn't do like on-device generation or anything. They just have a list of pre-made(maybe AI generated) combos. I'm guessing they are AI generating them, then having humans approve it, before including it in the keyboard emoji list. It's kinda neat, in that it expands the options, but really not much. Overall the OS really feels the same. I haven't looked forward to an Android update in many years.
Also, as someone who doesn't use Google's launcher or keyboard, yeah, I get almost none of these features.
Mhh, the System Update page for 16 on my Pixel is dedicated to AI bullshit, nothing actually useful... Nice
They really need to take more time with major updates, what good is releasing a new version every year when it's just new AI slop?
Would you like to kill Son Goku?
That is the duty of bacon. I do like birds though.
At least it doesn't have super distracting glass effects everywhere.
Now to wait 10 months for samsung to update.
You people are getting updates?
I really hate that I cannot just do everything with the pocket computer I own that is running a supposedly free operating system.
Desktop mode finally? Anything meaningful?
And here i am with my phone still stuck on 14... I know it was a short time between 15 and 16, but still, catch up a little bit! Honestly, my only complaint about Android. I am not a fan of the pixel series either.
Edit: Never mind! I decided to check for an update and found it was ready as of early May, but for some reason, my phone didn't check. Installing now. Now to wait another 8 months for 16.
I so don’t regret saying fuck Google this year and getting an iPhone.
Same thing in blue.
