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I wish OS upgrades were actually upgrades and not often downgrades. For example, KitKat handled SD card as a 1st class storage, allowing to reinstall apps on an
by bitL 10y ago
I wish OS upgrades were actually upgrades and not often downgrades. For example, KitKat handled SD card as a 1st class storage, allowing to reinstall apps on an SD card; Lollipop deletes an app from SD card, installs it on the main storage and forces you to manually move it to SD card after each update. I now have >100 pending updates as I am no longer willing to waste time on moving all apps to my 200GB SD card. Now Marshmallow has some silly approach obsoleting internal eMMC with an SD card, of course non-negotiably encrypted with the intent that nobody can extract music, video etc. that might be copyrighted.
Next, Windows Phone 8.1 first removed the option to store HERE Maps on an SD card and 10 removed the app completely, which was about the only appeal to buy a WP device for me before HERE Maps were available on iOS & Android (and the new default map app is an annoying adware).
I am one of those aesthetically unhappy people with flat interfaces - all major OSes shove ugly flatness down my throat. This is a major deal for somebody that has 100% perfect color vision and does professional photography - it's simply unbearable to look at phones these days. The only recluse on Android for me was to install Chinese ULauncher, making Android look like OS X Mavericks, but that phones home way too many things. Not even getting started on Windows 10 nagware which forced me to disable updates completely.
Frankly, I hope Jolla survives (are they backed by HMD now?) and allows me to customize every aspect of my phone instead of accepting more and more restrictions "for my own good". Linux Mint + Sailfish could be a dream combo.
- digi_owl 10y agoKitkat (aka 4.4), first class storage?! Far from it. Since maybe 3.1 Google had clamped down on honest to deity SD access, by changing up the permissions so that the card could only be read by non-system apps. Samsung and other OEMs routinely changed things back to the old behavior until 4.4 shipped, and Google seems to have arm twisted them into no longer doing so.