Financial Times also brings out that Transsion is also being sued by Phillips and Nokia is reportedly pressuring Transsion to make payments for its use of patented tech used in its smartphones
Sounds like they’re behind on their patent license payments?
Google has been very square with Android since Android 4. Holo made everything black grids, and then the first iteration of material design made everything paper like (with a few round floating bubbles). The rounded corners are relatively new to Google.
Can’t say I dislike the trend. The “floating islands” design works well for apps like these.
MD sucks balls, I despise this crap. It makes a less obvious distinction between elements to look cool, or new or intriguing, or different, or whatever bullshit UI designers come up with.
UI everywhere has been going backwards for 10-15 years now. Giant ovals with text for the Quick Settings buttons is an improvement? More swipes is better? Less contrast in a browser/app window is better?
Oh yea, let’s remove color from status bar icons 🤦🏼♂️
I don’t really have a problem with it. The shadows are clear enough to show boundaries (something that was missing from earlier Material Design iterations in many apps because nobody read the guidelines apparently).
I do lower the display scale to fit more on my screen, because for some reason every phone decides that making the screen twice as big means every icon needs to be twice as big as well. If you didn’t get the prompt to do so when you set up your phone, you should check the display settings.
Having run Android 4.4 on my old Oneplus One a while back, I’m pretty sure the toggles got physically smaller, probably because Holo lacked proper scaling settings to correct for the screen size.
It’s busy work to justify a lot of positions. Think how many people are needed even for a minor change like that in an organization as large and bloated as google
A friend of mine worked for a FAANG company and he taught me that people get promoted for creating something “new” rather than improving something that already exists.
As someone who’s worked for such companies since the mid-90’s, it’s common knowledge that run-and-maintain isn’t appreciated, only doing new things is.
Someone who keeps things from failing is much more at risk during layoffs than those who work only on new projects.
As someone who works for a similar company now, this notion and the success of this strategy/mindset greatly exaggerated.
Considering how often new projects get axed at Google you couldn’t possibly be safer on average than working on a golden goose (like Search/Android/Maps/etc).
I’ve had this problem too but the latest upgrade just fixed it. And yeah, I think it was Google’s doing and it’s not the first time, it’s a constant arm’s race between them and Newpipe programmers. And Ublock programmers. And Invidious and Piped programmers etc…
I did that yesterday, didn’t fix it. I was able to got the update from Newpipe directly today but my Boo had it three days ago, he said he got it from GitHub? No idea how to do that but maybe worth a looksy.
They’ve decided to step up the arms race because they’ve hit peak daily user count and the only thing they can promise to the board is force increasing premium memberships. I take it channel “memberships” are also not hitting the numbers they would like and they haven’t destroyed Nebula or Patreon as they’d hoped.
I will never pay for YouTube. The most they’d do is force me to stop using it. I’d be fine using the mobile site, but they’ve gone and intentionally broke that too. I mean, it works, but it’s buggy as shit.
One thing about capitalism: companies are never done extracting higher profits. Doesn’t matter if users pay for YouTube or whatever, Google will want to increase profits next year anyway.
It’s not working for me. I just uninstalled and reinstalled, but no luck. PipePipe works, but it keeps pestering me to enable notifications, so I uninstalled it.
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