[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Amb669:
Let me put it this way: If google wasn't so greedy, we would still have thin phones, packed with features galore.

I can sum up any android device in 1 word: Butchered.

Android today, is just a hollowed out shell of what used to be a great mobile operating system. Then they absolutely PACKED that empty shell with location, tracking, machine learning. Then lower cpu speeds had to became a trend, just so batteries don't overheat.

It's not a coincidence that google invented battery tracking technology JUST A COUPLE MONTHS before batteries got sealed in and all phones became much thicker & hotter. This also is coincidently the EXACT time that cell signal bars started appearing without sim cards. Like half of the battery area got taken up with some unknown hardware (briefly seen before batteries got sealed), preventing bigger batteries for quite some time.

All indications point that it would seem google has packed their own phone inside your phone. (Shared battery, ect.)

All this crap is coincidently when android 5 lollipop came out. Android has never been the same since. (Android 8 oreo is 'ok', kitkat is still the fastest) Android 9/10 is lollipop all over again. They taketh awayeth (dumbed down 2.0, I'll call it).

Googles approach to doze=off while moving your phone is disgusting. I really don't need google to wakeup my phone eveytime I walk to the bathroom to take a piss, Then the device will sit there for 30 minutes awake just because I moved it.

Want your battery life to be normal? How about don't move the device, or drain (That's Google's ultimatum).

We went from IR blasters, eye scrolling, lag free bluetooth, wifi that reached twice as far, efficient roms, root, backups, and customization galore. To having none of that.

It was all replaced with the location packed, api ruined, jit ruined, machine learning SPY OS.

They even tried to remove the sd card (s6), just for google to seal the battery inside.

Android 9/10 has brought the final nail in the coffin for me. Ever since android 9, I find it absolutely impossible to restore 100% performance without root. We got no way to backup an image. No way to downgrade. Reset options within the rom are half useless, at best. Flashing firmware doesn't help. Resets don't help.

Now, we have to put up with this new trashy trend of curved edges & holes in our screens...

This is literally the appitimy of kicking someone while they're already down.

Next to go is the headphone jack (as seen on n10), then they're going to take away the usb port. Then finally, they'll probably remove the sd expansion slot.

(Looks like to me that they're trying to block all i/o from the device 100%, with the exception of wireless connections).

How will we even do basic adb? We probably won't be able to.

The saddest part about all of this I guess, is the fact that they're completely ruining android for what, to stop a few thousand nerds from enjoying their device? All this effort against 0.001% of android users is nothing but a direct smack at us xda members.

R.I.P. to the real Android, November 2014.

As far as I can see, there's not much of a future for enthusiasts in the android scene anymore.

I wish you all good luck with your endeavors.