This is evident in Android and the pixel lineup, which could be my favorite phone if not for some of the most baffling and frustrating decisions that lead to a very weirdly disjointed app experience (comparing to something like iOS's first party tools).
Like removing location based reminders from google tasks, for some reason? Still no apple shortcuts-like automation built-in, keep can still do location based reminders but it's a notes app so which am I supposed to use? Google tasks or keep? Well, gemini adds reminders to google tasks and not keep if I wanted to use keep primarily.
If they just spent some time polishing and integrating these tools, and add some of their ML magic to it they'd blow Apple out of the park.
All of Google's tech is cool and interesting, from a tech standpoint but it's not well integrated for a full consumer experience.
I still can't fathom how one of my favorite Android features simply disappeared years ago: the 'time to leave' notification for calendar appointments with address info.
Could it be argued that perhaps UX Research was not working at all? Or that their recommendations were not being incorporated? Or that things will get even worse now without them?
At least it's uniform. Unlike Material 3 expressive which might look different depending on the app, or not be implemented at all, or only half implemented in some of Google's own apps even, much like with every other Android redesign.
I get Google can't force it on all the OEMs with their custom skins, but they can at least control their own PixelOS and their own apps.
It’s not uniform at all. Some parts of the interface and of their apps get it, others don’t. Some parts look more glassy, some more frosty. It’s all over the place in terms of consistency. It’s also quite different between Apple’s various OSs, although allegedly the purpose was to unify their look.
This is evident in Android and the pixel lineup, which could be my favorite phone if not for some of the most baffling and frustrating decisions that lead to a very weirdly disjointed app experience (comparing to something like iOS's first party tools).
Like removing location based reminders from google tasks, for some reason? Still no apple shortcuts-like automation built-in, keep can still do location based reminders but it's a notes app so which am I supposed to use? Google tasks or keep? Well, gemini adds reminders to google tasks and not keep if I wanted to use keep primarily.
If they just spent some time polishing and integrating these tools, and add some of their ML magic to it they'd blow Apple out of the park.
All of Google's tech is cool and interesting, from a tech standpoint but it's not well integrated for a full consumer experience.