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Like the author says, Google isn't a startup any more. Android is a huge ecosystem, and releasing something with these many problems, is not really up to standa
by yourad_io 12y ago
Like the author says, Google isn't a startup any more. Android is a huge ecosystem, and releasing something with these many problems, is not really up to standard. "Google started it", if you will, when they offered me this update OTA. Now my experience is severely downgraded.[1]
I've been intending to do my own bugs&annoyances writeup - my overall experience with 5.0 and 5.0.1 has been bad enough that I'm dumping L for cyanogenmod 4.4. I tried to do it yesterday, in fact, but adb backup with the -shared option seems to hang forever with 5.0.1 :/
[1] I kinda see that I may be coming off as a whiny, change-resistant douche here, but I don't think that is the case: I was actually very excited about the 5.0 release - both for the material design update (i felt it looked great on paper) and for the new runtime. I was prepared for UI/X changes, obviously. I was prepared to forgive bugs as well, but not at this level. ("How excited?" - "Manually-checking-for-updates-several-times-a-day-for-weeks excited. Plenty")
- javajosh 12y agoHeh, apparently the tone of my post wasn't clear - I don't normally use the word "unsporting", or smileys, in my post. :) I'm a big fan of complaining, actually. It's a good cost/benefit potential, the only downside is when the target becomes alienated. The upside to psychopathy is that criticism is just data, and not alienating. I hope that, if and when I release some software into the world, I will be able to treat complaint as data. Cheers.
- jnamaya 12y agoI converted my HTC One M7 to GPE to get the upgrade to Lollipop sooner. I only used Lollipop for a couple of days, and went back to stock again, I just couldn't handle it. too inconsistent, and it really felt like a downgrade from the stock HTC experience.