Android 10 Announced as Google Drops Dessert-Inspired Names

[realtuner]

You suffer from tunnel vision and and an inability to understand abstractions. Apple and Google are BOTH using surveillance for marketing purposes. Google's primary product is targeted advertising. Apple's is its hardware and services. In BOTH examples, YOU are the target and the data serves the same purpose.

You still don’t realize all your points are logical fallacies.

 

[heov]

"consistent with iOS". Clearly the author of this post is trying to bring out the fanboys and have people claim Android copied iOS by using numbers lol. Jesus.

 

[vegetassj4]

Damn, I was looking forward to Android Galaktoboureko

 

[retta283]

MacOS would probably be wise to consider doing the same. Naming every year is unnecessary. MacOS should just catch up to iOS number wise.

iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS 13. Maybe watchOS too

That's how it was even in the early OS X days. The cat names were just used internally until Jaguar, I believe.

 

[AtikCzaTok]

Android's naming scheme is now consistent with iOS.

Apple is just crushing it lately!

 

[1098474]

I don't even think Android people would care about this.

No, we do not care about this at all ☺️

 

[adamjackson]

I took these in 2009. RIP.

 

[StoneJack]

So now it looks less like a trash can

 

[brinary001]

Google has been getting onto that with project Treble. That separates out the low level hardware layer from the OS. This allows for much faster updates as the hardware vendors do not have to update code to work with newer OS.
It been ongoing but in theory it should speed up update speeds and 2 make it a lot easier for manufactures to get out updates. I would not be surprised to see Google find a way longer term to get it to happen even faster with at least smaller releases.

Do the carriers still act as gate keepers of sorts for the Android updates? Wasn't that a thing back in the day?

 

[Unity451]

Oh I gotcha. Sorry, usually on this site when anyone mentions the word gimmicky they mean it as a criticism.

That's fair. I'm pretty sure I've also used that word as criticism here before, so...

 

[brinary001]

That's fair. I'm pretty sure I've also used that word as criticism here before, so...

Oh no doubt I have as well haha. We all tend to toss it around carelessly in these forums, hence my immediate assumption that it was bad

Oh well. You know the old saying about assuming things

 

[techwhiz]

It doesn't matter anyways. With Android, if you want the latest version, you have to buy the newest phones. Updates? Fuhgeddaboudit. Or install a custom ROM like any power users worth his salt would. Android give you unprecedented freedom, but at a cost. You need to watch your own back. It's as FDR said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

I like android phones, especially since I've got a custom ROM installed that's pure Android without any of the manufacturer's bloatware/spyware. And with it being rooted/jail broken, I have a firewall so some misbehaving app can't drain my data plan and I can block advertisements.

This is blatantly not true.
There are several manufacturers that continuously update devices; OnePlus, Essential and Google to start.
I had an Essential and now have a OnePlus 7 Pro, both receive months patches, etc.

I never run custom ROMs and have the latest security patches and OS.

 

[techwhiz]

Do the carriers still act as gate keepers of sorts for the Android updates? Wasn't that a thing back in the day?

Yes if you have a carrier branded phone, the carrier controls updates.
The moral is.... Don't buy carrier phones and buy an unlocked device from a vendor that is know to update the OS.
Stop rewarding companies like Samsung and LG that leave customers stranded on an old release so they can sell a new device. That is also excabforated by locked boot loaders; so even if here is an AOSP port you can't use it.

I refuse to by android devices that are locked to carriers and have locked bootloaders.
With a locked bootloader the manufacturer decides when your device is obsolete. Even Apple does this.

 

[Macs4u]

The thing that every Apple fanboy forgets is, something that us normal people already, automatically know...

You don't need to update the phone every year. You don't need a new shiny OS every year. Companies do it to get new sales, especially Apple. I have a Galaxy S10+ and if this had this years OS on it for the next 5 years , you know what , it will still be amazing to use, still have faaaaaaar more flexibility than iOS and still, ya know , make a phone call.

Fanboys are funny people but Apple fanboys really are blinkered. Most just regurgitate the same rubbish day in day out and are so far up Apples backside, they don't even know if they agree with what they are saying LOL
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Yes if you have a carrier branded phone, the carrier controls updates.
The moral is.... Don't buy carrier phones and buy an unlocked device from a vendor that is know to update the OS.
Stop rewarding companies like Samsung and LG that leave customers stranded on an old release so they can sell a new device. That is also excabforated by locked boot loaders; so even if here is an AOSP port you can't use it.

I refuse to by android devices that are locked to carriers and have locked bootloaders.
With a locked bootloader the manufacturer decides when your device is obsolete. Even Apple does this.

Not true. At least not for O2 in the UK. My S10+ is running the latest OS.

 

[jerryk]

I took these in 2009. RIP.

The garden is still there and bigger at the Plex. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attract...id_Lawn_Statues-Mountain_View_California.html

Hit that and the Facebook sign on you next trip to the Valley. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/50881
Just be cool and wait your turn in line at the sign. Every time I go by there is a line, even on weekends and nights.

 

[Defthand]

You still don’t realize all your points are logical fallacies.

Have you not lived long enough to realize that reality doesn't adhere to debate club rules?

 

[ausparkapp]

Notice how the Android promo used so much blue after aqua, Samsung makes some gifs making fun on iMessage blue just the other day. Typically one hand not talking to the other.
https://giphy.com/samsungmobileusa

 

[unplugme71]

OS X, Windows 10, Android 10. Wtf

 

[Emanuel Rodriguez]

Well that's boring. The Desserts and statues were fun.

Wouldn't touch an Android with a 10 foot pole (at least with the intent of purchasing it), but I agree. I like food, and desserts are just plain yummy.

 

[rafark]

MacOS would probably be wise to consider doing the same. Naming every year is unnecessary. MacOS should just catch up to iOS number wise.

iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS 13. Maybe watchOS too

It already does that. OS X 10.0, 10.13, 10.14, etc.

 

[Ghost31]

Oh gosh, these jokes are as old as a dessert based OS naming scheme.... Yes it’s 100% true that vast majority of android devices never get a major update (basically just the google phones and a few flagships). Oh well. The people who buy the phones don’t really seem to care, and if you buy a new phone every 2-3 years (which most people do) then it really doesn’t matter. For majority of products through majority of history, they don’t really “improve” over time. You buy a device (phone, washing machine, car, lawn mower, whatever) and that’s exactly what you get. If you want new features later, you buy a newer device. Apple is the exception here, which I truly appreciate, however that also opens themselves up for other issues (“Apple is intentionally slowing down my phone!”) which isn’t worth the trade off for most android manufacturers. Heck there are even some iPhone users that never update for this very reason.

Well the people who “don’t really care” should. Because it’s not just new features. It’s security patches and updates to keep your phone from being exploited by a slew of bad people

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

That’s good. They would run out of names and letters eventually. Still, it would have been nice if they had completed one run through the alphabet. Though that “Z” might have been problematic.

 

[brianvictor7]

That took a lot of elements from Apple's iOS 7 reveal in 2013.

 

[realtuner]

iOS and Android target different markets so neither is more correct than the other. Android is more versatile as a computer replacement while iOS is more simple since it does less. So, while single ecosystem fanboys dwell only on updates which is only a small subset of the overall picture, Android is further advance in features, has better apps compatibility with older Android versions (minimum target recently changed from Android 5 to 6 while current is 9), still support 32-bit apps vs a lot of 32-bit iOS apps lost that haven't been updated, several system updates delivered through Google Play Store, hardware specs more feature proof, etc. so Android devices have longer usable life. Personally, I like the versatility of Android over my iOS devices but recommend iOS to retirees I help out so there's room for both.

Thanks for the laugh. You think all those Android Fisher Price Apps allow you to do more than iOS?

Let me know when Android gets full blown Photoshop. Or any of the numerous other high-end Apps that simply have no equivalent on Android, thanks to the fact Android is useless on tablets.

 

[mrex]

Google? Privacy? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Apple privacy hero here? The company who let devs to store and sell your information freely and making tons of money and still they can do it if they dont get caught and when they do they only maybe banned from appstore.

Haha...... ..... ..... ha!