Hey Google, I just…don’t know how to phrase this to you. Start doing some hard work on the Android platform to make the aging bits better, the dirty bits better, bring back more open-source, bring back more openness. Drop the YouTube crap and have dedicated apps on the phone for Music, Podcasts, etc.

Their current and next couple of years of dev cycles will probably be wasted on “AI” as the rest of the platform drifts and their C suite drools over a GPU-powered fever-dream that can’t even play Tic-Tac-Toe for more than 4 moves without forgetting the rules.

As it stands right now, I know several Androiders that see no reason to even stay with Android anymore and will likely switch to iOS for their next device replacement. I’m not sure I really want to bother sticking around either, although I’d prefer a tertiary alternative that as of yet doesn’t exist. (Speaking of, this dock sounds like something just borrowed from WebOS.)

Make the mobile OS something that can stand on its own instead of the data-mining marketing cesspool it has become, and put it on hardware worth buying instead of the janky Samsung modems.

Sincerely, some rando on the Internet