This only affects modern Pixels, and probably won’t directly impact anything in a way that you as a user will notice. I assume there will be efficiency improvements that may have tiny bumps for performance/battery but probably imperceivable.
I think Google is doing this for security. Now that Pixels are going to be supposed for 7+ years it will be easier to maintain them and keep up with security patches if they are on a more recent kernel version.
I feel your pain. A past phone I had did have an unlockable bootloader but it needed service due to a manufacturing defect. The one they gave me as the replacement was a carrier version with a locked bootloader.
There could be. Newer smartphones are going to improve. You should hold out for a year or two and wait until the tensor is efficient and provides good battery life.
Note: The toot mentions Pixel 9 and pixel 8 series smartphones. It could happen but I won’t hold my breath for pixel 6.
This comment is hinged entirely on the assumption that a(more like many) for-profit business won’t immediately make it a money printer to make line go up, sure the tech may be amazing and huge for accessibility but I see it getting almost immediately milked like most other new technologies.
So we should, what, stop coming up with new ideas because someone might use them for bad things? I guess we should stop making new kitchen knives because you could use them for murder?
What exactly should we be legislating here? We’re talking about an extension to existing technology that you’re already familiar with - Bluetooth - to allow a one-to-many relationship instead of one-to-one.
There’s already plenty of legislation around incorrect use of radio spectrum, harvesting user data, etc. So what legislation are you referring to that’s missing?
Is this correct? I thought phones basically already supported it and have done since Android 13. Why is a whole new kernel needed for this one feature?
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