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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Even if you like using Google, they overreach and offend. I was enraged to learn that I couldn't move the search bar to the top of the screen of my new Pixel. Like, at all. I'm now using a custom launcher just for that... Isn't Android supposed to be about choice!?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And you chose a custom launcher

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

The ability to use a custom launcher to work around a stupid decision doesn't make the decision less stupid. Not being able to customize something to easily customizable by default is a stupid decision. I strongly feel that applies to the search bar placement and the default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the stock launcher still runs anyway, because it provides things like the app switching UI.

So yea, you can switch but the other is still doing it's thing.

On windows you could actually replace the shell, and Linux is even more flexible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Swapping it out also breaks things such as on foldables the multitasking bar is practically useless

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's my point, you can't turn it off or move it. Even if you want it on your home screen, it has to be at the bottom as shown by this screenshot when I added a second search widget:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Android isn't about choice, that's just something android fans touted.

Google has been giving less choice/enforcing a more closed ecosystem for a long time now.

Android was about taking market share and stamping out other phone OSes, once they achieved that Google started tightening their grip and ramping up data collection.

Data harvesting is now what Android is supposed to be about. Everything else is secondary.