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>Google will coerce you into installing updates that irreversibly remove functionality Do you have an example? On Android you're generally free to downgrade a
by koala_man 8y ago
>Google will coerce you into installing updates that irreversibly remove functionality
Do you have an example?
On Android you're generally free to downgrade at any time, as long as the user data partition is cleared in the process.
- khedoros1 8y agoOne that comes to mind for me, with a specific Google app: Google removed SMS from newer versions of their Hangouts app over a year ago. I kept the program at the last version to have SMS. Pop-ups appeared periodically asking me to update the app. After about a year, launching the app starting showing a page "This version of Hangouts is no longer supported. To continue, please update the app." Of course, at that point, I moved to one of their currently-supported apps...but it means that my Hangouts conversations are in a different place than my SMS conversations.