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Anyone else feel like Google's handling of Android is genuinely incompetent at times? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by randromeda@lemmy.ml to c/askandroid
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This isn't an iOS vs. Android thread, although I'm aware this might come off that way to some. I've been using Android phones since the Galaxy S4 and at the time it felt like Android was far and ahead the best smartphone OS at the time. It was objectively better than iOS in 2010 in just about every metric apart from UI fluidity.

I'm not so sure about that any more. I still do prefer Android - the UI, the customizability, the ability to sideload apps, etc. That said, why is it that every single time Android gets a feature that truly makes the phone more usable, Google goes ahead and guts that functionality, only for Apple to actually give a shit about that feature a few years later and do it way better.

Just off the top of my head, I can't believe Google screwed up:

  • Android Beam
  • Google Now on Tap (not to mention all the things it did that Google Assistant can't)
  • Hangouts (not necessarily Android but it could have easily been better than iMessage)
  • Nearby Notifications
  • Android @ Home
  • Bump!

I get that Google as a company is out to make money, but do they really have to shut down any functionality that isn't directly generating revenue?

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[–] Sendbeer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So many Google things get half assed and then never get updated. I used an iPad today and it was kind of crazy having the autofill service just work. On Android I always need to click between user and password several times, do a long hold to select autofill and have THAT do nothing. Do a long sigh, open up Bitwarden and copy the password and return to the app only to find the autofill popup offering to fill in the password now. It's been that bad since day 1 and is pathetic they have never updated what would be such a nice feature.

So yeah, I'd agree sometimes they are pretty incompetent.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I'm fairly sure they only tested the Autofill feature for their own Google Password Manager, and even that one only works 75% of the time in Firefox

[–] MLSC87@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I love my Fold 4, but as a life time iphone user, this is one of my many frustrations with Android.

[–] Resolved3874 3 points 1 year ago

The thing I like most about the auto fill on iOS is that 9.9 times out of 10 you get the little key icon in the top right of the keyboard to open up your icloud key chain, bitwarden, etc. You don't have to wait for any kind of auto fill to figure itself out you just kinda do it.