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why does everyone hate material you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I've absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an article talking about how much they hated it. Personally, I don't understand the hate, as you can simply choose to have the color be a dullish blue manually.

Idk, it might just be that I haven't been using android long to care about the fact that material you is being forced.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The neat thing about Android is you have a choice. If you don't like the launcher your phone came with, there are plenty of alternatives that you can use for free from the app store.

I recommend trying alternatives and seeing whether you like any of the others better. If you don't, you can go back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes but there are also many parts of the System that can't be touched. The lockscreen, settings app, quicksettings area, task switcher,... are all things you have to use whatever the OEM forces you to use.

Not to mention that launchers these days work jankier than ever.

I believe that today's Google sees launchers as a misstake they made years ago and they now have to live with, rather than a concept that should be expanded to other parts of the OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I can see why Google doesn't allow swapping out specific "core" apps such as settings. Giving a foreign app access to your system settings sounds ripe for abuse, which is why a lot of permissions are focused on changing them.