When did android started going downhill?

11 days ago by Sunshine to c/ask

When they took away the candy names and nerfed multitasking.

BradleyUffner 9 points 11 days ago

When they switched from Nexus to Pixel.

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Sunshine 8 points 11 days ago

I gotta get away from Google and Apple.

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pmk 2 points 11 days ago

What's your plan?

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Sunshine 3 points 11 days ago

I’m going to use graphene in 2028 then Sailfish after the pixel 8 is no longer supported.

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pmk 2 points 11 days ago

Nice! I have a Pixel 6a with grapheneos which will lose support next summer iirc. Meanwhile I got my hands on an old Oneplus Nord for free so I'm trying out /e/os on it. Still undecided what I'll do next summer. I'm curious about how you decided on Sailfish?

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Sunshine 0 points 11 days ago

Sailfish is the most secure mobile linux os and is more independent from android than Graphene. It also has the best mobile UI.

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apfelwoiSchoppen 5 points 11 days ago

I miss the true gestures, like where I could play and pause media by simply drawing a pause symbol with two fingers on the locked screen.

For me it happened whenever that got shitcanned.

Then when they took away the one touch toggle WiFi or Bluetooth from the Quick Settings panel. Ain't quick anymore.

Or when they stopped allowing me to have full control on the color palette of the accent colors.

I hate getting OS major release updates now too because they needlessly shift and futz with so many UI/UX stuff in the OS.

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defaultusername 4 points 11 days ago

I want to say around Android 5, when custom ROMs became much less popular.

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Sunshine 3 points 11 days ago

Google felt less threatened.

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corsicanguppy 3 points 11 days ago

did [...] started

Downhill indeed

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hexagonwin 2 points 11 days ago

kitkat? they blocked direct sdcard access and introduced SAF

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T00l_shed 0 points 11 days ago

About a decade ago they really started

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