Android P

[lowendlinux]

My daughter decided she wanted an iPhone and because she's been best in her class two years in a row we got her a 128GB iPhone 7 which gave me my Pixel back. During the clearing out and restore process I got updated to P. I've never been an ohh ahh guy especially with phone OS upgrades but P seems to have enough changes to make me at least smile a bit. I like the new animations, the new or at least cleaned up fonts, the new activity screen, and the notifications in the drawer.

So those that have been upgraded to P what are your opinions?

 

[tbayrgs]

<Bracing for onslaught of gesture hated....>

Gotta run so I'll offer my $0.02 later today. Short take..I probably like it more than most.

 

[Aneres11]

I like P.
It looks more modern in my opinion. And I like some of the gestures but not all of them.

I still think it has some ways to go, but I don't find it offensive in any way.
Others do though, but it's really cool to bash Google at the minute so as the above says, brace yourself for the onslaught.

 

[widgeteer]

<Bracing for onslaught of gesture hated....>

Gotta run so I'll offer my $0.02 later today. Short take..I probably like it more than most.

They've grown on me but I still don't quite understand the point. It's not really solving a problem that existed.

 

[Lava Lamp Freak]

They've grown on me but I still don't quite understand the point. It's not really solving a problem that existed.

The problem is all new iPhones will use gestures, and if competitors want to lure people away from iPhone, they'll need gestures. Otherwise people who have become accustomed to using gestures on an iPhone may not ever consider switching to something that doesn't also use gestures, as that will be second nature to those users.

It isn't really a problem that exists today, but starting in two months...

 

[MarkX]

The problem is all new iPhones will use gestures, and if competitors want to lure people away from iPhone, they'll need gestures. Otherwise people who have become accustomed to using gestures on an iPhone may not ever consider switching to something that doesn't also use gestures, as that will be second nature to those users.

It isn't really a problem that exists today, but starting in two months...

There will still be millions of iPhone users on the 8 and older who haven't used gestures that could be lured away.

 

[tbayrgs]

There will still be millions of iPhone users on the 8 and older who haven't used gestures that could be lured away.

Yup but that number will continue to diminish significantly as iPhone users upgrade. And considering the number of Android phones on the Android Pie (or newer) won’t be a majority for at least 2-3 years, if they don’t start now Google will be years behind in implementation.

 

[widgeteer]

The problem is all new iPhones will use gestures, and if competitors want to lure people away from iPhone, they'll need gestures. Otherwise people who have become accustomed to using gestures on an iPhone may not ever consider switching to something that doesn't also use gestures, as that will be second nature to those users.

It isn't really a problem that exists today, but starting in two months...

That’s not what I meant by “not solving a problem” though. Apple moved to gestures to solve using their phone without a physical button. They did a great job. Android solved that problem years ago with on screen buttons, though. These new limited gestures don’t improve on the navigation. They’re not intuitive, and clunky.