• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        I love how they just make things worse indiscriminately now. Like you’d expect that if a company turns evil, they make things worse for profit, but google often doesn’t even care about that and makes everything worse randomly.

        The clearest example I have is the maps app, which used to let you tap once to clear the search and directions bars off the screen. They removed that in one update for absolutely no fucking reason, so now a third+ of the screen is blocked at all times. If that space displayed ads or something at least I’d get that they were making an app shittier for profit, but nowadays more often than not everything just seems to be shitty because they don’t give a fuck anymore.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      To force you to change your battery (which is free), otherwise you will blame Google when it explodes after you ignored the warnings.

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        3 months ago

        More accurately, to attempt to avoid a battery fire for people who can’t or won’t replace the defective batteries.

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      3 months ago

      Oh well they were forced to acknowledge a problem that needed a fix and what they did was they asked Gemini how do we fix this which Gemini had zero problems at all, not even an inconvenience, in giving them it’s fix so that’s what they went with without a single further thought employed in the matter

      They really liked it when the response started with it’s super easy