Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Even without the custom ROMs, the whole Android ecosystem is a colossal fucking mess.
I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more. It’s not even compatible with itself.
People give Windows a load of shit, and deservedly so for some of it, but it’s a million times more usable than Android when you want shit to “just work”.
How we all wish there was a third option, I would genuinely take less functionality in favour of privacy and performance. I don’t need AI and fancy image processing. I want to use my phone to pay the old way, like when samsung copied the magnetic strip info, not like now where google gets a copy of my receipts.
Sucks iOS is the alternative, nearly gave in last week but the price was just too much for what I was getting.
I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.
That’s true for every operating system. Old apps aren’t updated to use new system APIs and such and they eventually stop working.
Yet I can compile applications that work on Windows XP, and they still work under Windows 11.
It’s not as if Android is some svelte slimline OS where every byte matters. There’s plenty of room there for keeping compatibility with older apps.
Dude there’s millions of lines of code and thousands of hours per year that keep old windows shit running. It’s a nightmare to support that. Microsoft has made that a priority and you can easily argue it shouldn’t be, but you seem convinced that’s the only valid path. It’s not.
Software that is 10 years old and unmaintained is likely unsafe to use and therefore shouldn’t work. Windows has a lot of issues specifically because it’s backward compatible with ancient software, actually. Security and a path forward should matter more than clinging to old software that must stop working someday regardless of how hard you try to delay it. Emulation/VMs are and should be a way to work around that on desktop and it would actually be nice if mobile OSes had that too. That way at least the ancient software can be sandboxed and not a security weakpoint. The right approach though is not to do this horrible patchwork of APIs like windows which creates a security nightmare
I’ve got old apps that won’t work any more.
People give Windows a load of shit… but it’s a million times more usable than Android
Where do you run your old Windows Phone apps nowadays? What about new Windows Phone apps?
Can’t tell if that’s a horrible wallpaper or a totally fucked up screen
It’s a photo from a disused quarry that my granddad used to work in
Ah, memories.
FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m actually for this. The bar to entry for the Play Store is too low with too many low quality and unmaintained apps. I’m all for booting insecure and super old apps. They cheapen the ecosystem.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well that’s all very well, but I’ve got a bathroom speaker I can no longer access.
So how about instead of Daddy Google deciding what’s best for everyone, they let things run and give you a warning?
Hell, I’ve even got games I’ve paid for that are now gone. Honestly, fuck them for even thinking that’s acceptable.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is not what’s happening. It takes tons of work to maintain backward compatibility but you’re framing it as though it doesn’t and they’re just being a holes on purpose.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The problem is allowing the APIs it uses to exist at all in the OS is a huge security hole.
Gingernate@programming.dev 2 months ago
Why can’t you connect to the speaker with Bluetooth?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It doesn’t allow direct connection. You have to dick about with a stupid app to put it in “speaker mode” first.