Android 10 ➹

An extraordinarily beefy review.

I like to keep tabs on Android (after all, I used to do custom builds of it for my own devices, and still fiddle with x86 builds now and then), but looking at this is like dipping into an alternate timeline – it looks enough like iOS to be familiar, and yet can do so much more even as its ecosystem, reference hardware and update policy all remain a broken mess.

And it’s been this way for so long that I don’t think even single-source reference hardware from a brand with actual global retail presence (and an end to Samsung-like pastiches) would be able to fix things now–or, indeed, ever.

(I have seen exactly zero Pixel phones in my neck of the woods over the past couple of years, excepting two Googlers I hang out with from time to time.)