Re:Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates
by verhaust on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:55PM
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I don't use either of those features, but the one reason I stick with Pixel phones is bloatware. The amount of useless bloatware that comes with most phones is horrid. I went with a Samsung tablet because Google (at the time) stopped making tablets. The tablet hardware is good, but even after 2 years of owning the device, I still get nagged constantly for not using samsung specific apps/features that I have zero use for. Google does do some nagging on Pixel phones for their silly features, but I have found them much easier to turn off.
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Re:Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates
by platz on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:36PM
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Motorola phones have very little bloatware as well.
Samsung is probably the worst.
Re:Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates
by cudder on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:08AM
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Unfortunately Motorola phones are not great when it comes to OS updates. Two major OS updates and then security patches for some time after that. Which sounds okay on paper, but man are they slow with them. I finally got Android 13 on my Edge 20 just last week! Their "bimonthly" security updates occasionally come a month late too. Maybe the experience would be different with a flagship rather than a midrange device, but I'm not willing to risk my money on such a gamble - my next phone won't be a Motorola. A shame too, their latest foldable looks quite nice.
I've been entertaining a theory that the update slowness and little bloat are somehow related - with how slow they're with updates, they probably don't have the time to code up any more bloat either.