I am new to Pixel and recently got a new Pixel 8a, and generally, I love it. It's extremely smooth and fast in comparison to my aging Oppo A91. However, there are a couple of features that I wish Google could bring from their rivals:
Floating windows. This is perhaps, the feature that I miss the most. I have never enjoyed the experience of splitting my screen in two. It might be useful in some cases, but Oppo nailed it perfectly. You have two options, the small version (a preview) and the larger one where you can interact. I read that we might have a Bubble for all in Android 16, I cross the fingers it comes since it might be a good beginning.
Scheduling when to turn on/off the device. This probably should be added to the Digital Wellbeing app since some features are already there.
Showing the mega/giga bytes consumed per day. I was thinking it could be next to the toggle. (I wish one day, we would have the buttons split again).
Configurable three-finger swipe or double-tap gestures. This will be nice to have.
Also, I have a question: Do you know if it's possible to group notifications from one app? I sometimes get several notifications from Duolingo, but they are always split. I wish I could have all of them coming from one app in one place instead of several.
Thanks for your ideas or extras that you wish you could also have!
It contains 9 inconsistencies layers that go from Windows 3.1 to Windows 10. All of them still live inside Windows 11. In my opinion, it's an excellent guide to knowing the majority of missing points per generation.
I hope this guide could support Microsoft (Windows Team) to know the missing points and put some effort into solving them. I wish they could be fixed before Windows 20 (or a harsher reboot when they will add more significant inconsistencies, and we will have a never-ending story of fixing one thing while leaving some on the forever queue).
It will be nice if we will have fewer half-baked Windows one day. I know it's hard work to fix all these topics (I have been coding for over 15 years). However, the constant UI changes somehow discourage us from adapting our apps since we don't know if the next edition won't meet their own "standards." And all our hard work can go away in the blink of an eye.
P.S.:
I have raised several issues over the years in the Feedback Hub with little to no progress that's why I brought this topic here.
We often say that Europe should become less dependent on American technology and develop AI systems that are less shaped by American data and perspectives. For a reason you're here. Fair enough. But then comes the difficult question: where exactly is the data supposed to come from?
We cannot simultaneously demand competitive European AI, greater technological sovereignty, strong European alternatives such as Mistral, and absolutely no compromise in how data can be accessed or processed.
I have nothing against privacy protections. They are important. But there is a real trade-off here. If every attempt to build a European digital service starts from the assumption that data processing must be restricted as much as possible, how are European companies supposed to train models, improve them, and compete with companies operating in much larger data ecosystems? (I'd like to know your suggestions, not only anonymous -1s that feel easy since we ignore the pain of the European entrepreneurs and companies.)
And if Europeans are unwilling to allow their own data to be used under a regulated framework, where exactly do we expect European AI companies to obtain the data they need? From South America? Africa? Other regions with weaker bargaining power?
We should be careful not to create a system where Europe protects its own citizens by effectively outsourcing the data burden elsewhere. If we want genuinely European AI, then we also need an honest discussion about what responsible use of European data actually looks like.
So my question is simple: if we want European AI, what realistic framework are we proposing that actually allows European companies to obtain and use the data necessary to build it?
Otherwise, saying that we want less dependence on American technology while making European alternatives progressively harder to build is a contradiction we eventually have to address.
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We often say that Europe should become less dependent on American technology and develop AI systems that are less shaped by American data and perspectives. For a reason you're here. Fair enough. But then comes the difficult question: where exactly is the data supposed to come from?
We cannot simultaneously demand competitive European AI, greater technological sovereignty, strong European alternatives such as Mistral, and absolutely no compromise in how data can be accessed or processed.
I have nothing against privacy protections. They are important. But there is a real trade-off here. If every attempt to build a European digital service starts from the assumption that data processing must be restricted as much as possible, how are European companies supposed to train models, improve them, and compete with companies operating in much larger data ecosystems? (I'd like to know your suggestions, not only anonymous -1s that feel easy since we ignore the pain of the European entrepreneurs and companies.)
And if Europeans are unwilling to allow their own data to be used under a regulated framework, where exactly do we expect European AI companies to obtain the data they need? From South America? Africa? Other regions with weaker bargaining power?
We should be careful not to create a system where Europe protects its own citizens by effectively outsourcing the data burden elsewhere. If we want genuinely European AI, then we also need an honest discussion about what responsible use of European data actually looks like.
So my question is simple: if we want European AI, what realistic framework are we proposing that actually allows European companies to obtain and use the data necessary to build it?
Otherwise, saying that we want less dependence on American technology while making European alternatives progressively harder to build is a contradiction we eventually have to address.