Google has gone full retard

“Does not provide an engaging user experience.”

Google is criticizing your UX? Coming from google, whose user experience is to save your offline maps, not in the giant “saved” tab with all your other saved stuff, but in… your user profile. And instead of greying out missing options with a tooltip for what state needs to change to enable the option, they just hide the option entirely and make you waste three hours trying to find a button that’s not there. And all their help pages are a bunch of screenshots for outdated versions when they could’ve answered the question with one line and a few right angled brackets. And the buttons that sometimes don’t work and sometimes take five minutes to work don’t have any feedback to tell you if the button press actually registered (Do I need to wait, or will tapping again hit the immediately enabled “sell all my data” button on the next screen that pops up under my thumb just before it touches the screen?). I could go on but I’m already ranting.

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I’m getting increasingly annoyed with google trying to trick me into backing up my photos to drive.

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But your precious memories!

Joking aside, 98.6% of the pictures on my phone are of technical stuff and the important ones are part of the documentation for something…

20% of mine are accidental or intentional screenshots I forgot to delete lol

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Yep, my phone occasionally decides I need 8000 shots of the inside of my pocket. You wouldn’t think it’d be that hard to make a phone that can detect an all black picture and just decline to save it.

@amal On the original topic, how’s resubmitting going?

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Still no update since sending in the latest appeal. :confused:

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Could be a good sign. Bots are fast, people slow. Might be getting an actual honest to goodness person to look at it now.

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It’s like checking e-mails, routinely going through and deleting all the screenshots of my lock screen it takes instead of shutting off my alarm in the morning. (I really should get a standalone alarm.)

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I think on the whole we are smart enough to sideload an apk file.

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While you still can

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To true

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Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead | Ars Technica.

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Doesn’t this have to be enforced by the developer?

For now…it’s just an unsettling trend

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