Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.
Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.
android 11 is more like win10, it has lots of built in bs that can mostly be mitigated. i’d say win7 = android 7~8, and 4.1~4.4 for xp…
i’m still rocking android 11, never upgrading… hopefully i can switch to a linux phone before this gets unusable
Is this “insecure” or something? Like why are we at android 16 and is it mandatory?
Quite possibly. I don’t think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that’s been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS’s A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.
Agreed. 4.4 was the pinnacle of user-configurable Android. after that they started removing features and locking things down.
tbh JB 4.1~4.3 was the best. Had real performance improvements over ICS (project butter), KK had some weird stuff like the new sdcard policy.
wish i can still use it, but even firefox ditched support so…
Not disagreeing on that, my comment was more about configuration options. After 4.4 they started removing so much QoL stuff under the excuse of simplicity: the indicator LED, several volume controls, the headphone jack, made gesture controls default, etc.