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Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow
An anonymous reader writes: As they've done in the past, Google has revealed the name for the upcoming version of Android with a new statue in front of its headquarters. Android's sixth version will be called Marshmallow. Dave Burke, Android's VP of engineering, unveiled the statue on Twitter.
Google has also released the Android 6.0 SDK and the final M preview.
I was really expecting the statue to be an androided version of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man. The statue is a little disappointing.
I read the internet for the articles.
It will usher in a whole new era of mobile experience. Or maybe people have long stopped caring about Android names and version-diarrhea.
'Marshmallow' is the perfect word for a label that carries no content, is all fluff, and whose sole purpose is to appeal to people with simple tastes.
(Note that I'm not talking about the OS, but the practice of giving each version a cute name. Android is not alone in this practice, but with 'Marshmallow' they seem to have achieved the pinnacle of its banality.)
I can see the fnords!
I was hoping for M&M. I don't like Marshmellows.
no, I don't have a sig
Milkshake would have been more fun, if only for the image of an Android filled with chocolatey goodness and a pair of straws for antennae.
Wood Shavings!
- Godai
I was so hoping for marzipan.
Broken in Kitkat, still broken in Lollipop. Not every Android device will live its whole life in sight of the cloud! Portable file system access is a must!
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
...Android: Other M?
Since Android phones can be hacked with a simple text, I was going on the presumption the M stood for Mine, as in, "Your phone is mine."
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Its predecessor, Lollipop, clawed it way to 18.1% share in just 9 short months! In fact, Android versions released since October 2013 (KitKat) account for a whopping 57.4 share! With quick adoption like that, you should plan to upgrade your current phone to Marshmallow any day now.
(Achievement unlocked: I typed that whole thing with a straight face.)
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
get this update?' requests in 3,2,1...
Yeah, your manufacturer does not care, since {insert your device name here} does not have:
- Fingerprint sensor (too cool to do without)
- NFC (for Android Pay) (more revenue for them)
- 3+GB RAM (they don't want to figure out how to shoehorn it into your old {insert your device name here}
- USB-C (too cool) (new cables to buy) ( more revenue for them)
- and the OEM ROM, of course, to get the OTA flash
So don't bother to ask. Wait for some of the millions of lemmings flooding the boards with "wheeeeeennnnnnn??????" and go figure out how to root your phone and
put a Cyanogen ROM on it. Or just buy a new phone...
And the manufacturer of your phone will not bother if at all possible.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Did you know that marshmallows are a real plant? They're a flower growing out in our fields. It's the original plant used for making real marshmallows candies, the white puffs. Pretty and cool. Very easy to grow.
So this puts all the people who brought their android phone from a US carrier one more version of Android behind their expectations.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Android's total history has reached the half-way point, unless you know the name of something sugary that starts with a left bracket.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
But but but I have a Nexus 4 from Google! Whennnn?
About 3 months after the AOSP release from Google and Cyanogen or your preferred alternative make a working version for the Nexus 4.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
This is still a fantastic smartphone that is more than capable of running Android Marshmallow. If Google abandon this phone it wont be encouraging any of us to upgrade our hardware, but instead move to Cyanogenmod or other ROMS.
they may want to say that Android M is now Android M&M
Android Slim Shady? I believe Google is content to let others be the king of controversy, especially if it would mean dropping a rap album onto every device Google Play the way Apple dropped a U2 album onto every iPhone.
but who wants to run a P2P networking node on their smartphone?
Some people have proposed exactly that in order to work around abuses by incumbent cellular carriers. See Wireless mesh network.
Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars.
How many Android users will be running Marshmallow?
kitkat was supposed to be designed so that the pieces could be updated like pieces of a kitkat and that there wouldn't be immediate need for another full on version... like, that the os could be updated mostly without having to update evvveerything.
and then they released lollipop and m straight after.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The fark... why?? Didn't Google release Android L ("Lollipop") less than a year ago? Why, couldn't this just be Android v5.2 ??
Oh wait. This is the post-Chrome rapid version number churn era... unless a product is updated by big, big, major version numbers at least three times a year*, "consumers" will consider it outdated and old-hat. Right?
( * Along with simplified, condescending changelogs ("coz, technical words scare people!!!") that basically boil down to "we updated your experience and fixed some "issues". Enjoy our product! Lololozz [smile emoji] " )
What will be the name of the next version of Android? Sugar?
Jokes aside, I found pretty cool Marshmallow name.
I had many problems with the Kitkat version, but were resolved with the lollipop version, it is now expected that the new version does not bring complications!
No way, we have to wait and see what's new!
Decoração com Balões.