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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Honestly, my Galaxy S10e feels like it has been virtually unchanged moving from Android 9 to 11 over the years. To add to the weirdness,, iOS to me has felt like each major version has made bigger UX jumps.
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Yeah once Material Design was established Google kept refining it and tweaking but it always felt the same. IMO not a bad thing. It was nice to go from device to device and know what to expect. I remember the days when every OEM had a very different Android skin and every device felt very different. Material You is cool concept but I don't think it's going to work well if only Google plays ball (I can't see Facebook and Microsoft for example wanting to allow their apps to have adaptive colour, they want their brand colours) and/or it's only on Pixel devices.
Android 12 feels like a new UI for Android 11. There are still things that need to be tweaked, changed and refined in my opinion and I am wondering how long that takes. Does Google keep refining in their monthly patches, or is this "good enough" until Android 13 next year?
It feels to me like Google knew they needed a new OS to sell a new device, and so put a new skin on Android 11 instead of making a lot of useful changes to the OS to really push it forward.