> If you're using a Pixel 2 or above you'll get additional features to organize and manage your phone, like app suggestions on the home screen based on your daily routines
Ads. On the homescreen of a phone you paid money for.
This is madness. A lot of folks I know are livid that Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese OEMs do this...and won't you know it, the world's largest ad-network wants a slice of the pie, too.
Edit: Looks like these are suggestions for already installed apps unlike on Xiaomi / Oppo phones.
> With additional Google Play system update modules, even more security and privacy fixes can be sent to your phone from Google Play
This is huge [0]. Even though Project Treble [1] makes it easier to run latest AOSP and other forks on Androids, this is a much needed update for billions who couldn't be bothered.
My assumption is this is suggesting apps you already open at a specific time of day. This is already a feature in the phone in the apps switcher, but isn't as prominent as displaying the icons on your home screen.
Yeah, I thought it would use ML to suggest opening your "maps" app before work because - what do you know - you have opened the maps app to get to work every day at that time for a year.
I do not believe you'd ever be able to target a user by their routine to offer ads in this manner. Ads were not even something I thought of when I read this.
Other OEMs show you app suggestions based on apps you use. Those suggestions are typically prompts to install them. I thought Google was bringing that to all devices.
True but that was a lot more fair. The ads are only on the lock screen so really unobtrusive, and you have the ability to remove them for a fair price (and replace them with super boring standard ones you can't change )
Ads. On the homescreen of a phone you paid money for.
This is madness. A lot of folks I know are livid that Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese OEMs do this...and won't you know it, the world's largest ad-network wants a slice of the pie, too.
Edit: Looks like these are suggestions for already installed apps unlike on Xiaomi / Oppo phones.
> With additional Google Play system update modules, even more security and privacy fixes can be sent to your phone from Google Play
This is huge [0]. Even though Project Treble [1] makes it easier to run latest AOSP and other forks on Androids, this is a much needed update for billions who couldn't be bothered.
[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/07/accelerati...
[1] https://source.android.com/setup/build/gsi