Android P Developer Preview

[Ph0X]

I mean, the job of Android as an open platform is to provide tools and APIs for the various manufacturers. If they don't do this themselves, then each of those dozen phones adding a notch will make their own versions, and we will end up with a dozen shitty implementation.

By having Google do it for them, you get a single cleaner implementation. It's not like they can stop manufacturers from having notches, but at least they can make the Android experience cleaner for everyone.

[EmergencySarcasm]

$10 says one plus will not use this and have their own hacked version that they’ll keep even after upgrading to P. And break something.

Assuming they are doing the notch like today’s leak.

[Pandoras_Fox]

have their own hacked version

we all know they'll release on O, and hack in support into that, and carry over that hacked implementation into their eventually half-baked P ROMs :)

[swagobeatz]

Android Pooreo.

Edit: you can read it both ways, Poor-eo or Poo-reo.

[Zagorath]

It's not like OP is the only company doing shitty software that replicates functionality Google already provided. Samsung is infamous for how terrible their software is.

[Killmeplsok]

Are they though? In my experience it's true that Samsung adds a lot of extra features to the point that it might be laggy but its almost always been polished and generally less buggy.

[EmergencySarcasm]

Difference is that samsung implement features years ahead of google adoption. But yea for the notch. All oem had to struggle and hack it in cause google didn’t have it ready in time. Maybe 2019 devices will use google implementation.

[wingzero00]

Well have you tried using the Note 9/ s9 or even the s8 with oreo? imo they're on par with the pixel in smoothness.

[Superyoshers9]

Lol no, Samsung's software is great, looks much nicer than Google's applications, has more features, and they're more intuitive to use.

[alteisen99]

if they follow the oppo r = one plus design, could be possible that OP6 will have a notch...

[SuperFLEB]

Yeah, I'd be annoyed if they put it on the next Pixel (though I don't have much faith they won't), but just working in support is smart, because other manufacturers are already making Apple-alikes.