• Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    when was it gone? I just used it a few weeks ago. Why do they do stuff like this? The feature is already developed and deployed. That means they invested developer resources to provide fewer features. I don’t get it.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      1 year ago

      A lot of Google’s craziness comes from their internal promotion system incentives. Nobody gets promoted for maintaining the status quo

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        1 year ago

        That’s really annoying, considering sometimes the status quo is what’s best

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          It also means that inherently, no feature can ever reach “optimal” design. As someone will knock it over again to get their new management bonus.

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      They have been enabling and disabling it for years now. The nexus 5 had it, then it disappeared for a while, and then came back later. Its like they think it can be a selling point for their phones, but they dont even advertise it afaik. Perhaps.its just corporate alzheimers…