They're announcing M while L is still loaded with bugs. Typical. I'll pass.
"The first big feature is selective app permissions, which lets you pick and choose which permissions you let an app have." Yawn. I've had an app to do that for ages.
"Another large bit of Android M is the new payment initiative, Android Pay." Another yawn. I've been using plastic for almost 50 years, and my swiping fingers haven't worn out yet.
"Android M is also integrating with fingerprint sensors at the system level" Translation - we need a reason for 75% of our customers to buy new hardware - the manufacturers are looking at an almost saturated market.
"Google says that a Nexus 9 running on M can get almost twice the battery life as one running Lollipop." I'm getting the same life on 4.3 as my wife gets on 5.0. So another yawn.
"There's also a new Google Chrome experience"Which I only use for things that other browsers won't do (like adding printers to my Google cloud account), so I don't care.
"Android M also includes app-to-app linking" Finally. Someone at Google actually looked at what Linux can do.
Now how about some real innovations? Like multiboot? Like putting back the external SD card and stop confusing people by naming a folder in internal storage "sdcard" and making it the 0 device? Like going back to removable batteries? Like taking out the emulator and making Android apps run in native code (meaning that all the CPUs used in Android phones will have to run the same instruction set)? Boy, does Apple have Google over a barrel on that one. With a 12 foot kangaroo-skin bull whip.
The whole point of M is to smooth out the bugs in Lollipop. Did you even watch or listen to what was said or just jump to your conclusion before hand?
So I have the dev preview.
Volume is fixed.
It has a dark mode.
Thinks that we've had to root for or get "skinned" versions of Android for in the past are now included right off the bat.
It's lightning fast - haven't had it long enough to report on battery life, but it's quick.
So far I'm a fan.
They're announcing M while L is still loaded with bugs. Typical. I'll pass.
"The first big feature is selective app permissions, which lets you pick and choose which permissions you let an app have." Yawn. I've had an app to do that for ages.
"Another large bit of Android M is the new payment initiative, Android Pay." Another yawn. I've been using plastic for almost 50 years, and my swiping fingers haven't worn out yet.
"Android M is also integrating with fingerprint sensors at the system level" Translation - we need a reason for 75% of our customers to buy new hardware - the manufacturers are looking at an almost saturated market.
"Google says that a Nexus 9 running on M can get almost twice the battery life as one running Lollipop." I'm getting the same life on 4.3 as my wife gets on 5.0. So another yawn.
"There's also a new Google Chrome experience"Which I only use for things that other browsers won't do (like adding printers to my Google cloud account), so I don't care.
"Android M also includes app-to-app linking" Finally. Someone at Google actually looked at what Linux can do.
Now how about some real innovations? Like multiboot? Like putting back the external SD card and stop confusing people by naming a folder in internal storage "sdcard" and making it the 0 device? Like going back to removable batteries? Like taking out the emulator and making Android apps run in native code (meaning that all the CPUs used in Android phones will have to run the same instruction set)? Boy, does Apple have Google over a barrel on that one. With a 12 foot kangaroo-skin bull whip.
Anybody knows what is the (precise) release date of the next developer previews? There was a broad idea of 3 iterations but I couldn't find anything precise...
Does it fix the notifications? If not I'm not interested.
They're announcing M while L is still loaded with bugs. Typical. I'll pass.
"The first big feature is selective app permissions, which lets you pick and choose which permissions you let an app have." Yawn. I've had an app to do that for ages.
"Another large bit of Android M is the new payment initiative, Android Pay." Another yawn. I've been using plastic for almost 50 years, and my swiping fingers haven't worn out yet.
"Android M is also integrating with fingerprint sensors at the system level" Translation - we need a reason for 75% of our customers to buy new hardware - the manufacturers are looking at an almost saturated market.
"Google says that a Nexus 9 running on M can get almost twice the battery life as one running Lollipop." I'm getting the same life on 4.3 as my wife gets on 5.0. So another yawn.
"There's also a new Google Chrome experience"Which I only use for things that other browsers won't do (like adding printers to my Google cloud account), so I don't care.
"Android M also includes app-to-app linking" Finally. Someone at Google actually looked at what Linux can do.
Now how about some real innovations? Like multiboot? Like putting back the external SD card and stop confusing people by naming a folder in internal storage "sdcard" and making it the 0 device? Like going back to removable batteries? Like taking out the emulator and making Android apps run in native code (meaning that all the CPUs used in Android phones will have to run the same instruction set)? Boy, does Apple have Google over a barrel on that one. With a 12 foot kangaroo-skin bull whip.
Now how about some real innovations? Like multiboot? Like putting back the external SD card and stop confusing people by naming a folder in internal storage "sdcard" and making it the 0 device? Like going back to removable batteries? Like taking out the emulator and making Android apps run in native code (meaning that all the CPUs used in Android phones will have to run the same instruction set)? Boy, does Apple have Google over a barrel on that one. With a 12 foot kangaroo-skin bull whip.