All I see is more CPU/GPU power being given to irrelevant things that does nothing but make older devices run slower from the excess overhead.
For most, except those with the newest devices, this will be a downgrade unless they change settings to reduce the use of animations. Not sure if there will be an option to disable the blur but I hope so.
I turn off so much crap as it is, and crank all animations down to 0.5 (I’d go lower but this is just fast enough to no have stutter). I don’t need iOS-slow animations that “look cool”, I got shit to do.
That was my first thought too. I thought the whole reason Android moved away from animation bloat was to improve performance, but everyone seems to be heading back in the opposite direction now. Samsung’s OneUI 7 also added tons of animations that have no functional benefit.
I have a phone from 2019. It runs smooth with Lineage OS on Android 15. I think slowness comes down to vendor junk.
They need to sell more phones somehow (which is why relying on corporate software is never a good idea. We need a real android alternative)
I guess I’ve always been the person who likes UI change, I find it exciting to see that kind of thing. I know a ton of people will hate this, but I personally like it. The Android 12 quick settings menu looked awful to me, white straight next to black. Blur is overdue.
Blur is garbage I don’t need.
Fix the crappy space-wasting nonsense.
Google is refining animations, adding blur
How about refining UI control back to the user’s hand? Instead we have garbage that people with vision or motor-control challenges can’t use.
I was like that. then everything started to become uglier and uglier. and I’m not even nearly old.
as long as I can cover it all with the kiss launcher
Oof. Having to remember app names?
No thanks from me…Way faster than searching around for icons for me, plus it auto sorts them depending on usage at times. For example in the morning Waze is there and then a bit later my work time clock shows up and Lemmy is always a press away. Plus you can add tags to things so I use voyager for Lemmy but I tagged it Lemmy so I can search for either. I use my desktop the same way I hit the super key and start typing and my applications are there so its nice to transfer that muscle memory over to my phone
Yeah, i installed it before commenting.
I do like that i can set favorites and it also keeps history—that’s handy.I just can’t ever remember the names of apps i don’t use often. lol
It seems good so far, though very different from Fossify Launcher. But I’ll keep playing with it for now, certainly!
I might try the tags…
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You’re literally in the android community dingus
Use your subscriptions and you can avoid it
Another six years of searching out phones for custom roms to avoid Google’s horseshit - in my future.
Yawn, more enshittification, is that really what people want? Seriously thinking about a degoogled phone or even free of it.
more enshittification
Where, it’s a UI refresh, not a degradation of services.
is that really what people want?
Google are the outliers. iOS has similar aesthetics. One UI has similar aesthetics. Whatever Xiaomi’s is called has similar aesthetics. By the numbers, yes it is what people want.
Enshittification by bloating with useless stuff. Not what people want but what they’re forced (or blackmailed) into - all for G glorification and money grabbing. Look at Nova (launcher): one time affordable fee and stuff to make your phone useful (handling and aesthetics) you can have an as minimalist or as fancy environment as you want. Just read they’re (Google) are going to use AI now in YouTube to give you ads when you’re most focused on something - it’s unethical imho and also shows how stupid advertisers are because I for one wouldn’t only be peeved with Google but boycott the product or/and advertiser.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
Notice how it doesn’t, by definition, cover making UI changes that a particular user doesn’t like.
Put it in perspective, it’s merely a fresh coat of paint. It’s like calling enshittification because a CSS file doesn’t load.
… some people want that. Ie there’s a window manager, openbox, it’s thought of by many people as dead or not further maintained because it happens so rarely, but it is because it’s good as, it works and many people love it for that.
Hot take: I like it
