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How is that "living in a bubble"? The last two major versions of the software support the feature. It's nearly a year and a half old. Classic finding things to

• tdkl 10y ago
  Because lets not ignore the fact that more then 50% of devices won't ever see this update, which makes it moot to suggest how to work around something that was taken away. That's classic Google "ship it and fuck the rest" mentality bubble.
  • darren_ 10y ago
    Nothing was 'taken away' for pre-M users either, at least Maps-wise. This article (as originally written, they've updated it since) was stating that a privacy feature that never existed had been taken away. There never was a location services toggle for specifically Maps, and pre-M it's not possible to make one that works (at least, not one that someone who doesn't trust maps with their location should be using).
  • pawadu 10y ago
    Where do you get the 50% number from? These GPS changes started in 4.0.4 (or was it 4.1?) which means 98% of devices (96%) include this: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
• HNSucksAss 10y ago
  Android users can't update their devices themselves, so citing the age of any particular OS version is no defense. It's also the reason that Android turned out to be a big fraud.