It’s likely now your device does the initial processing of your data (store, categorize, and disseminate) and the aggregate is sent through as telemetry. They save on processing costs and users think it’s privacy friendly.
But it’s Google we’re talking about here and smartphones are more than capable these days.
Developers also need to make money to live and survive. Why do you think you’re entitled to all of their work for free? If it’s such an inconvenience, you should try your hand at coding an alternative and giving all of it for free. We’re waiting.
This can’t be stressed enough.
Your personal preferences are not the problem of the FOSS community. If it’s a problem for you, fork it and do as you please.
I get your point, but I don’t think the ones who protest are the ones vacationing in a luxury island. I assume majority of them are rich or spoilt assholes.
It’s either “China is bad” or “Apple is bad
porque no los dos?
Why do you think they picked the guy as the CEO?
It’s all free market until they can no longer compete. Then it’s time to get down and play dirty.
Now it would be bloody awesome if someone would leak how their data collection in Android works and how much of their privacy policy is actually not just for good PR.
You have no idea how much information and tech-of-the-times were stolen from the rest of the world by the west to make you feel it’s unique to China. But oh so propaganda made you believe, west made all the progress on its own.
Go read some history books or whatever. You do you.
LMAO, they wanted the slave owning states and whites to continue to be racists and the ruling class. If anything you said was true, segregation, a typical for a tyrannical government wouldn’t have endured till 70s. But you do you.
Twisting historical events, my ass.
Wait for a bugfix release after a major release. Then upgrade.
need moar bugs fixed, just to be safe
Hackernews, unironically named to appeal tech circles, but run by venture capital fund y-combinator, mainly to promote companies they invest in.
As such it’s mostly used by techbros (MBA types) and tech companies to show-off, start drama, push their PR, damage control, and occasionally post news.
It’s like linkedin, in reddit format. It’s all about your connections.
“This is good for B̶i̶t̶c̶o̶i̶n̶ AI”
“You send aid, we keep funding the genocide. Deal?”
-Bidet
For what it’s worth, even if nothing happens, at least it shows everyone else who are the genocide enablers.
It’s bigger than Apartheid. It’s Apartheid supported by most of the so called “civilized”, proponents of “human rights” western world.
There’s no consequences to be had with their blessings.
Countries that genocide, stick together on the same side.
There are a lot of war criminals there to keep him company though.
…in a country that houses multiple war criminals, even as presidents.
So, it’s totally on brand.
Those updates are easy when you have to release an system update to update the safari browser. Hell, you could call it a major security fix and fix some security issue on an old phone and every fanboy would be like “OMG iPhone 3s got an update.🤤” whereas Google can just ship browser fixes over the app store.
And version history means jack all when you can just name releases as you please. Google has been doing the same thing last 5-10 years. Emoji mixers, magic cleaner, launcher with google search bar at the bottom, turning a toggle into a big button on nav bar, enabling aren’t major updates. Sure there are underlying changes, but they’re mostly security patches and bugfixes. Android is still a bloated mess that needs ungodly amount of RAM and processing to keep even few apps running reliably in the background.
And guess where did Google learn this deceptive “long term update support” trend from?
The only thing they’ll need is to decouple chrome and require a system update, and they could be providing updates for a decade.