Comment on Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division.

Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Obelix@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don’t want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I’m fine.

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  • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree with you except I really want lidar, making 3d scans of things is fun and cool. I got really into photogrammetry a few years ago and Lidar is the one iPhone feature I’m jealous of.

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    • Obelix@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a really cool thing, but if we are honest: That is nothing for the general population. I’m not really sure what Apple is doing with that feature, but there is no way that Grandma Smith will 3d scan things and send them to her grandchildren for 3d printing

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      • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        True, I suppose I’m fairly niche in that regard. I mostly made scans of environments using photogrammetry. Basically just documenting a space in time. Like my room, or house, or place I work. It’s cool having a 3d environment, it hits different than a photo. I will be able to explore my old spaces I use to be in everyday in the future if I want to reminisce.

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      • Grappling7155@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Seems to be gaining popularity with real estate and construction to help visualize spaces as they’re being built and/or sold

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• Atmoro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Correction:

  Other than their obsession with using ai to surveillance & use that to control everyone in different ways

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    remember that android core app, that used to spy on people. nothing very useful.

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …good.

  The reason people use Pixels has always been utility. The Ai garbage was like putting jelly on a biscuit.

  I don’t mind the jelly, personally, but I came for the biscuit, and its still there.

  You can still root them, still unlock them, still use custom Roms, kernels, operating systems in some cases. They’re still what they’ve always been.

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    people used pixels and nexus phones largely because the other oems were terrible at the time and riddled with carrier bloatware but that’s not really the case anymore. especially once samsung did away with touchwiz and went to the modern oneui.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Samsung still is terrible. You can’t disable their store or utilities. They always pop right back up and start themselves. One might argue that’s hardly a problem when phones have 6GB+ of Ram now and better battery optimization, but on budget phones that some people get “free” from carriers, it makes them lag-ridden slogs to use.

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their cameras and image processing tech were innovative at the beginning right? They were beating out most other phone manufacturers until they caught up. Also their folding phones seemed pretty innovative in regards to their form factor. Idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    pixel has better camera than some other androids, but thats about it. theres very little difference between androids relatively speaking.

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    • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not true security wise. Only stock. Graphene can run on Pixels only.

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• ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

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