Yawn, more enshittification, is that really what people want? Seriously thinking about a degoogled phone or even free of it.
more enshittification
Where, it’s a UI refresh, not a degradation of services.
is that really what people want?
Google are the outliers. iOS has similar aesthetics. One UI has similar aesthetics. Whatever Xiaomi’s is called has similar aesthetics. By the numbers, yes it is what people want.
Enshittification by bloating with useless stuff. Not what people want but what they’re forced (or blackmailed) into - all for G glorification and money grabbing. Look at Nova (launcher): one time affordable fee and stuff to make your phone useful (handling and aesthetics) you can have an as minimalist or as fancy environment as you want. Just read they’re (Google) are going to use AI now in YouTube to give you ads when you’re most focused on something - it’s unethical imho and also shows how stupid advertisers are because I for one wouldn’t only be peeved with Google but boycott the product or/and advertiser.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
Notice how it doesn’t, by definition, cover making UI changes that a particular user doesn’t like.
Put it in perspective, it’s merely a fresh coat of paint. It’s like calling enshittification because a CSS file doesn’t load.
why is there so much corporate bullshit on lemmy today?
“dingus” is so judgemental.
What about a formal “my good fellow”? Or a friendly “brah”? Perhaps “bean-breath” if you want to push the Lemmy in jokes? Or even “dawg”?
All I see is more CPU/GPU power being given to irrelevant things that does nothing but make older devices run slower from the excess overhead.
For most, except those with the newest devices, this will be a downgrade unless they change settings to reduce the use of animations. Not sure if there will be an option to disable the blur but I hope so.
why would they need to do things that actually matter like privacy and security lol
they got foss chads doing the hard work on that so they can circle jerk rounded edges and square
I don’t think the UI designers are the people who usually with on security features
That was my first thought too. I thought the whole reason Android moved away from animation bloat was to improve performance, but everyone seems to be heading back in the opposite direction now. Samsung’s OneUI 7 also added tons of animations that have no functional benefit.
Is this not just IOS??!??!!
It’s worse that Android 12 and that’s sayin a lot. It feels like beta software that was shoved out the door. You can tell the devs are iOS users.
There are so many things that need refining in the UI department that it’s actually amazing they released it. I do not understand what they thought they had accomplished with this update.
It’s kind of embarrassing, tbh.
