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Google's Next Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone's 'Notch' (bloomberg.com)
Google is working on a "dramatic redesign" of its Android operating system, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The company has stuck with a single look for its mobile operating system (OS) for quite some time now, but it's now reportedly looking at Apple for inspiration. The new version of Android -- which Bloomberg says is called "Pistachio Ice Cream" internally -- will apparently be designed with the space for a cutout at the top, much like the iPhone X and its so-called "notch." From the report: The operating system refresh, Android P, will emphasize Google's Assistant, a digital helper that competes with Apple's Siri and Amazon.com's Alexa. Developers will be able to integrate Google's voice-based technology inside of their apps. The company has also weighed integrating the search bar on the Android home screen with its assistant, although neither of these changes are finalized for introduction this year, according to one of the people familiar with the situation.
Look at that. Another shitty clone of a superior iPhone feature. Android will always be second class crapware.
Apple can do a notch because they know the dimensions on what their sensor array is going to be. With Android, this is a different story. An inexpensive phone may just have an IR sensor and a low-end camera. A more expensive phone might have more front facing stuff. Will this be a one size fits all notch, or something that is wider/narrower depending on the device? If it is one size fits all, that may hurt hardware makers. If it is variable, that would stomp on devs trying to make their apps have the right dimensions and contribute to the complaints of fragmentation.
I wonder how Google will handle this.
So of all of Apple's ideas, they decided to copy that atrocity...
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Because I use devices that compete with Apple with interfaces and features that I prefer to use over anything Apple offers, that MUST mean that I want the platform I use to mimic Apple!
God dammit!
First they copied the stupid "headphone jack delete" idea, now this nonsense. Guess I'll just keep putting batteries in my 6P as they wear since they are evidently out of fresh ideas and have started copying bugs made into features.
>will apparently be designed with the space for a cutout at the top, much like the iPhone X and its so-called "notch"
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
iPhone previously showed the current time in the middle, and thus, had to be changed for iPhone X's 'notch'. Android doesn't show anything there to begin with, which is why phones like Essential, were able to have a similar, albeit much smaller, notch.
Apple hardware is very much is second place... by a VERY long margin.
Android is a resounding success, and people buying Android devices are -- guess what? Choosing NOT to buy Apple products.
Obviously there is going to be some back and forth of ideas, but if someone at Google thinks that Android needs to 'be more like Apple', well.. the sales very much don't warrant that. If people wanted a 'notch', they'd buy an Apple device...
Google is going after Apple's snatch?
Pistachio icecream, really? Not Praline, or Pudding, or another P word that's a dessert by itself? You could tack 'icecream' onto any letter. Also, there was already a Froyo and an Ice Cream Sandwich.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
This is why I never update. Yet another "upgrade" introducing pointless and gratuitous interface changes. No doubt they will "improve" my user experience by moving, removing, or renaming settings, adding new "features" I can't delete or turn off, and if they are feeling really ambitious perhaps break some of the apps I use and make the device generally slower.
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I hate everything about the iPhone. It sucks. I find it very difficult to use. I use Android precisely because it is not like the iPhone. Thanks Google. Just what I wanted.
the p0int more has bben my only
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A big black square in the middle of the screen. It's original and useless, just like the notch!
Everybody wants to stretch the display over all of the front or at least do that as far as possible. Since there are a few things (like the camera) that have to stay there too, you have to make room for them. So the only options right now are either a "notch" or a "full-width notch" (having the display not cover all of the height of the front). Since you can make good use of the display areas left and right of the notch you get more usable display area this way compared to leaving empty a strip on the top or bottom of the front just to put the camera there.
What's so hard to understand about this?
Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone's 'Notch'
Can you point at where on the phone-shaped doll that the Android touched you?
Seriously, wording...
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
creimer is already busy with too many affiliate link programs.
creimer would accept the mascot position although if pay is more than 5$ an hour, which is much more than creimer does collecting second hand lottery tickets.
creimer would save the puffer con with costume charge and creimer would look more like a puffer than this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
creimer says he is going to post one comic con video every day in April but creimer lied to be a comic con affiliate and maybe win a t-shirt; By May, creimer will already have moved to his next get rich quick scheme!
Proof: He always lies! He also said that he would publish books in January but he has moved to the comic con/youtube get rich quick scheme instead!
LOL! That's very funny! POFL!
Puffing On Floor Laughing
https://simple.wikipedia.org/w...
Perfectly suited for creimer!
But Samsung already made fun of the notch in that commercial where the guy waiting in line outside the Apple store has that awesome haircut!
Chris' case is getting worse, he spends all day replying to himself as AC on /.
The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.
For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.
Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!
Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."
For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...
Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:
Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.
To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.
The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!
Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.
I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...
Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG
But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.
Thank You dear users,
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Nancy Guerrero
Director
Special Education
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Exactly Nancy,
It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own scheme. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.
I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!
I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.
--
Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley
That's great as long as I can turn it off. If I can delete it completely so I get the space back, even better; knock yourselves out.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Don't click on his homepage link! creimer is trying to get you to subscribe automatically to his youtube channel and make money off you!
CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE: /. so make sure to go to:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
https://slashdot.org/~criss69
https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!
Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!
creimer wrote:
I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!
Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.
creimer wrote:
All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
because of the notch?
How is this design based on Apple's iPhone X, even though an Android phone had it first..... The android phone Essential was the first with a notch, NOT Apple...
But hee, you can see what kind of apple fanboys those techsites really are...
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The LG V20 has a second screen. I like it.
http://www.techradar.com/revie...
NO! Just NO! I got an android device because I wanted an android device...not an effin APPLE.
This sounds like someone took everything I fear about possible changes to Android and rolled them into one summary.
The future is looking bleak.
"The operating system refresh, Android P, will emphasize Google's Assistant, a digital helper ..."
There is a reason I turn off "helpers". i don't need, or want, some obnoxious "helper" interfering with my use of the phone. I don't need, or want, an obnoxious search bar on the home screen.
If I wanted an iPhone, I would have bought an iPhone.
Don't kill the OS by trying to mimic a crappy one.
To all you stupid bitches that hated on iPhone cause of the notch... suck a dick.
Wake me up when they do something useful.
Didn't Andy Rubin's Essential phone have the notch first?
Or are they just throwing "Apple" into the story for clicks?
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
The operating system refresh, Android P, will emphasize Google's Assistant
Well I guess this means that I'll never buy an Android P phone then.
Try it! Library of Babel
It's so horribly sad that you were so excited about computers that you spent hours organizing your c64 tape collection(under 100k for both sides) but nobody thought enough of your hobby to equip you with a reasonable 3M-class machine complete with hard drive, 256 color graphics, memory management, preemptive multitasking support even though such a system might have only cost a week of groceries.
Assuming said little girl was in middle school in 2000:
Floppies were much cheaper per byte than cassette tapes in 2000:
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1996/h084.html
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1996/h208.html
But that's totally irrelevant since most kids of the era had figured out you could get free floppies by calling companies in computer magazines and asking for demos or trials (Especially AOL!) . I made sure to call the AOL helpline once every day after school with a new fake name to get that precious AOL floppy disk
Floppy drives for c64s were the sort of things people were giving away and throwing away around that time.
I recall buying an entire PC/AT for $100 in 1995 and I felt gypped.
I recall paying under $100 for an amiga and also someone giving away an atariST.
I also found a fully decked out PCjr sometime in the mid 90s.
I purchased a 386 desktop in 1996 with 2 mb of ram and a 80 meg hard drive for under $70
What's so horribly sad is your constant need to shit on creimer and whomever else who comes to his defense. Not only on today's comments, but last Friday's comments. You call yourself an adult but you behaved like a child. Sad.
This is creimer
You must have a dark dark angry heart because all I said was that it was a shame that this woman's early interest in computers was not recognized and supported. It's amazing that you're able to respond to me so quickly though. Since you're always reading every single comment at -1 it must be hell to keep up.
Are you OCD? All this time organizing 100kb tapes even though the largest c64 collection could have fit on a single CD and even the cheaper computers of the day could have emulated several simultaneous c64 sessions easily.
All this effort to read every single -1 slashdot post on your cell phone?
Why did you sign up here just to defend a guy who knew you once when you were a little girl. Are you in love with creimer?
You flooded Slashdot with 50+ comments in response to creimer's comments last week and today? When does it stop?
Copying apple's half assed designs.
I love trolling creimertards. So predictable. So much fun.
This has gotten to just be plain stupid now. How bout just leaving a half CM bezel on the top and bottom and use that new found space on the bottom to put a 2nd front firing speaker? Bonus you have now made a phone that can be talked in from either top up or bottom up and has stereo sound for video watching. The entire phone is completely agnostic as to which end is up. Up is just whatever end the gyroscope detects is up at the moment and switch the speaker and mic as appropriate for the phones orientation. Putting a microphone at the other end of the phone also gives you two mics with good stereo separation for video recording as well!!
It will never stop! We will SHIT SHIT SHIT until Slashdot is buried in shit. Only then will creimer leave us to our shithole.
Making fun of the autist weirdo who pretends to be a woman is the funnest part of Slashdot.
I have a few questions:
1) Creimer is known for talking about child brides quite a bit. You are a 30 year old woman who says she knows creimer from "way before." Did he try to marry you? Does the idea creep you out a little bit?
2) As a middle schooler, how did you get into the same technology that creimer liked as a middle schooler? I'm very surprised your parents would give you antique computer parts that broke all the time. Did you get the computer from creimer? Did your parents let you in the same room, unsupervised, together?
3) You must realize that nobody will actually believe you are a 30 year old woman, and will just think creimer is making a strange sock puppet account where he pretends to be a much younger woman for some bizarre reason. What do you think about that? How would you respond to it?
That's why creimer posts his one or two comments, sits back and watch the dumpster fire as others troll on his behalf.
Never give up your dreams, Team Creimer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the Team Creimer train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light
Fly me high through the starry skies
Or maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget today's pain
Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light
Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
And meet me on the other side
Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light
Team creimer wants to believe. Never underestimate the power of believing. We will see who gets the last laugh you creimertard.
Thanks Team Creimer,
Your posts are always enlightening and right on topic! Keep up the good work over there at Team Creimer HQ!
You have constantly demonstrated that you are, indeed, the top king pin creimertard!
Also, I have noted that Chris uses child psychology to convince his so called trolls to give up by pretending they just give him free publicity. That's adoring! ;-)
Anyway Chris would have a hard time to learn anything above child level matters, including psychology.
https://childdevelopmentinfo.c...
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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley
CREIMIER SAID:
All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Shitposting, Amazon affiliate spam, being fat, and being a general nuisance.
CREIMER SAID:
Only on Slashdot.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
So why hasn't managed to ban this intentionally disruptive user? According to him his "trolls" can't help themselves.. he is the one in control willingly and maliciously creating disruptions. Reasons that slashdot has stated they will ban accounts at their discretion.
Why isn't creimer banned? He degrades the slashdot experience for everyone and attempts to monetize these efforts. This is effectively stealing from Dice.
Just the other day creimer attempted to dox a user by posting her name and ip address. How many chances should he be given?
Wow creimer!
Another day, another -3 post!
POFL :)
And his dozens of anonymous comments, comments under sockpuppets, comments where he pretends to be a woman...
"What's so horribly sad is your constant need to shit on creimer"
He's the asshole, we provide the shit.
"whomever else who comes to his defense"
You mean "no one in the history of nine universes"? That's why you have 15 sockpockets, Chris.
"You call yourself an adult but you behaved like a child."
We have raised children, Chris, we know we have to sometimes adjust down to communicate with the thick-skulled among us.
You try behaving like an adult, and then we can talk. You call your stupid "snatch" remark behaving like an adult, Chris?
You're a creepy obese middle-aged man-child.
Not every AC is creimertard, Chris. We just found a website with a permissive TOS.
Complain to the management if you don't like it, Chris. You're at -1, your beloved karma is gone, bitching about it as an AC changes nothing.
You 400 pound toddler.
"That's why creimer posts his one or two comments, sits back and watch the dumpster fire "
Ah, that old "can't keep track of verb tenses" crammar! Chris, did you ever get an answer (after years of therapy) as to why you can't handle grammar correctly?
Is it physical brain damage from the childhood beatings, or is it trauma from grade school from all the bullying?
We want to decide who we search with and what's on our home screen.
I'm not sure if forced items are more evil than having an advertising-ID forcibly integrated in to Google and Windows O/S's. why are we forced to help their bottom line?
The 2010s will be known for privacy being stolen and user-hostile implementations by tech companies.
"That's why creimer posts his one or two comments,"
Nah, Chris, it's because your karma is at -1. So much for your valuable contributions, you narcissistic fruitcake.
Ok, so... Google: honest question here:
Where do I go if I want to buy a phone that is NOT an iPhone?
"as others troll on his behalf."
I think that says it all, huh Chris? Why don't you drop the facade and admit you're just here to inflict your horrific personality on us?
So far we're getting the first laughs, so there's that. I guess in April we'll see if spending hundreds of hours annoying people is worth getting maybe a 20$ t-shirt.
That'll boost your geek cred, maybe you can update your geek card.