Android version upgrades haven't felt meaningful to me for a long time. I'm surprised people still get so excited about them (and angry when their manufacturer is slow to push the upgrade out).
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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Am not excited at the slightest. I've learned my lessons.
Google is doing most of the feature development behind closed doors and very specific to google products. Even then, most of their own apps mess up every update. For someone who doesn't use any google specific apps, It's scary to update early and then have app incompatibility bugs/issues ruin the experience. I'll give it a few more months before I even think of updating.
Doh.
It's like Microsoft office trying for the 36285th time to sell some new shit feature in office.
Meanwhile office online still is so horribly bad that it's more comedy than word processor. I'm currently cursed with having to write documents in there and it's kist not possible. Just writing a text document without it crashing every 5 minutes (and with each crash also half way corrupting my save files) is too much to ask
Just stop it with these big releases, just make a well working base line and then slowly weekly add some small new feat until it's complete and then you only do security upgrades. Not everything needs a new library from scratch, thank you very much
It's understandable though. Just like they explain at the end of the article. Phones are established products with established paradigms at this point. We expect them to work just like they do work.
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I don't subscribe to that idea. The Jedi stuff was cool, Material 3 Expressive is cool, adding Monet to Wear OS is cool, the thermometer is cool, the AI that Apple's added to Apple Health is cool. There's a tonne of room for growth, it's just Sundar Pichai lacks imagination.
Alright, then great. You have stuff to look forward to, as do I. I agree with all that you said.
But saying "I want the cool stuff NOW!" reminds me of my kids who can't wait to eat candy until after the proper meal. Not every update will be exciting.
I'm not saying I want it now, I'm just saying there's room to evolve. The idea that operating systems are mature and so aren't exciting is what I'm taking umbrage with. It's just when you have a small minded conservative at the helm that chases trends and stockholder dividends, innovation is suppressed.
Alright then.
What I was going by was this:
To call Android 16 underwhelming is an understatement.
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I took that as you expecting Android 16 to have the features that are coming in just a few months. My mistake.
That's fair. I would like to see the current model in Silicon Valley come to end so teams are allowed to iterate and polish and there's room for genuine innovation rather than chasing numbers. Even this release of Android 16 was only put out to appease shareholders before the release of the Pixel 10 rather than to ship anything.