Can any Android release from the late 2010s claim to have changed the platform’s trajectory more than Oreo? Project Treble didn’t add emoji or notification dots — it restructured Android’s entire hardware abstraction layer to solve the update problem that had plagued the platform since 2008. In an era when most people judged Android releases by emoji counts, Oreo was doing the engineering work that would determine whether Android devices got updates at all.
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Google Turns to Pixel Users to Rethink Android Settings
Everyone assumes Google already knows how you use your Pixel. This latest move shows it really doesn’t—at least not enough to fix Android’s most basic pain points: the settings you hunt for and toggle every single day. Google Goes to Reddit for Pixel Settings Feedback In a post on the Pixel subreddit, Google is explicitly […]