Alphabet profit beats expectations, CFO Porat to assume new role
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Alphabet's second-quarter profit exceeded Wall Street expectations on Tuesday and the Google parent announced that its long-time CFO, Ruth Porat, would assume a new role while the company sought a new finance chief.
  • ubergeek77AEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    I’m really not a fan of when features are teased as “coming to Android 14.” There is absolutely no shot this gets upstreamed to AOSP.

    Reading between the lines in the article, this is going to end up in an update to Google’s launcher app, or maybe their wallpaper app. At most, their closed source flavor of SystemUI.

    But for the growing number of us compiling AOSP from source and using it to get away from Google’s spying, it’s disingenuous to keep advertising these features as “coming to Android 14.”

    Heck - if this feature makes it in any of the apps like I said it might, then there’s really no reason to lock it to Android 14. It could easily run on Android 12 and 13. But it won’t, because Google wants you to buy a new phone.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I agree. There are a lot of things I find interesting only to discover it’s artificially restricted to Pixel devices as well. I think this might be part of why Android releases no longer feel as exciting.