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Applying your argument more broadly, we shouldn't critique any product or changes made to it, and I don't see any reason why that should be true. Caring about
by dvdkon 11mo ago
Applying your argument more broadly, we shouldn't critique any product or changes made to it, and I don't see any reason why that should be true.
Caring about the products you use is pretty standard behaviour, and when the product changes under the user's hands, it's normal to complain. It can resolve the issue faster and less painfully than switching products would.
- izacus 11mo agoNo, my argument is not what you applied here. The fact of the matter is that Android is fully funded and developed by Google and you kinda don't have much standing to control what they do with their project and how - especially if all you can say is that their work is bad. You can be unhappy about it, but it doesn't change that its their work and their money on the line here with very little relationship to you or your wishes. You're not even a paying customer. This doesn't apply to "any product or changes" at large.
- guizadillas 11mo agowym we are not paying customers? every person with an android phone is a paying customer indirectly and can complain about its development
- izacus 11mo agoYou're a paying customer of Samsung et. al. You don't become a paying customer of Linus when you get a Thinkpad with Ubuntu.
- guizadillas 11mo agoIt's not the same lol I become a paying customer of Samsung and Google because Samsung paid for it (you have to pay for your device to be verified and access Google Play Services) and some of the cost is absorbed by me I don't become a PAYING customer of Linus because Thinkpad didn't pay for Ubuntu (and if anything was paid I would become a customer of Canonical)
- ehnto 11mo agoYou said we can be unhappy, which is what the grandparent was being, but you took issue with that anyway. I imagine people in deep enough to care about the downstream release cycle of android are well aware of the power structures at play. Being under the thumb of a massive corporate is not an enviable position but here we are, and here we complain.
- izacus 11mo agoSure, but they also get a full opensource operating system for free in exchange.