Is it me or is Google's UI & graphic design becoming more and more childish (and boring at the same time) with every move they make? Not a fan.
And: the Google Sans font family looks just so annoyingly "whimsical" and outdated to me.
geek_at 20 hours ago [-]
The fact that this os might teach Americans how to spell Aluminum correctly is kind of hilarious to me. Or are they going to mispronounce the OS too?
melesian 6 hours ago [-]
Your condescension and arrogance is amusing. The British discoverer of the metal, Sir Humphrey Davy, named it aluminum, which Americans still use.
jfrbfbreudh 20 hours ago [-]
What is correctly?
saghm 19 hours ago [-]
I'm also confused by the parent comment because it appears that they spelled it in the American way, whereas the OS seems to use the British spelling. If they think the OS will teach people the correct way, evidently they don't spell it correctly.
dlcarrier 19 hours ago [-]
The original spelling, which follows the same pseudo-Latin convention other chemical names use is: Alumium
All other spellings are from people adding one or more letters because they think it sounds better.
whynotmaybe 14 hours ago [-]
Pffft, nonsense, the only way is the French (as in language) way, just call it alu.
It makes me incandescent to think an OS that disrespects it's users to the point where it won't let them see their filesystem is going to take over more form factors.
The security at all costs folks have deeply deeply deeply destroyed humankind's ability to see or observe what a computer is. This is a spiritual violation striking deep deep deep at the roots of Computer Liberations/Dream Machines. I deeply begrudge Android any success, for it fundamentally keeps users from understanding computing, from seeing what is. Traitor.
hulitu 55 minutes ago [-]
> The security at all costs folks
What security ? Those programs will run any piece of bytes thrown at them.
cindyllm 18 hours ago [-]
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RickS 21 hours ago [-]
Given the iOS-ification of macOS, the macOS-ification of Android is a good thing. If this shrinks well and encourages more netbook form factors or desktop norms on tablets, even better.
dlcarrier 19 hours ago [-]
All that really matters is whether or not it is locked down. If it isn't locked down, you can run whatever OS and UI modifications you want. If it is locked down, and you can only run approved software, then you are stuck with the features they want.
Zopieux 20 hours ago [-]
Looks like Android with extra animations and "use AI plz" prompts. What am I missing?
underlines 7 hours ago [-]
I don't get it either. i have a pixel 10 and it looks exactly like desktop mode, when connected to a docking station...
moomin 22 hours ago [-]
What’s the sell here? Chromebook 2.0?
__patchbit__ 21 hours ago [-]
MacBook Neo Aurora? Google does better UIX software and vampire taps userdata?
All other spellings are from people adding one or more letters because they think it sounds better.
Why use many syllable when few do trick?
The security at all costs folks have deeply deeply deeply destroyed humankind's ability to see or observe what a computer is. This is a spiritual violation striking deep deep deep at the roots of Computer Liberations/Dream Machines. I deeply begrudge Android any success, for it fundamentally keeps users from understanding computing, from seeing what is. Traitor.
What security ? Those programs will run any piece of bytes thrown at them.
maybe in a parallel universe.