Nobody’s saying that Google won’t give them the code, though. Nothing is moving to closed source, Google just isn’t going to be showing the current work-in-progress code for the next release to the public.

How so? I doubt many ROMs are based on code that isn’t part of an Android release. Surely GrapheneOS devs can just use the Android 16 branch once it’s released to make an Android 16 version of GrapheneOS.

Not in the CPU/modem department, that’s a first

Idk, seems like it’s sticking out of the back and isn’t symmetrical like the camera bar, so it might wobble or lay uneven on a table. That’s way more obnoxious to me.

I’m not a native English speaker so 🤷‍♂️, but the term disk quota is commonly used to refer to this kind of limit.

The first few generations that were sold with the promise of unlimited photo backups still get that deal - if you find an old Pixel / Pixel XL and use it to upload your photos, they will not count towards your storage. A few more models then get unlimited uploads in “high” quality, and everything since I think Pixel 5 is completely out of luck.

The free storage limit in Google Drive

What do you mean “now”? Google Photos has had a photo editing feature for a very long time now

That indeed is a Bluetooth feature that supposedly makes audio quality better by only lowering the volume using the actual speaker driver instead of doing it digitally and potentially throwing away some quiet sounds. In theory, doing it this way is always better and should be preferred. In practice, many devices handle it terribly.

If you want to turn the feature off, you can enable developer options on your phone (settings -> About phone -> tap Build number a bunch of times) and turn off absolute volume. That will give you back software volume control with fine-grained adjustments.

The CPU is still Google’s Tensor, and the modem on current Pixels is already a blackbox that custom ROMs interact with using binary blobs ripped from the official ROM. There isn’t much that could get worse with this change.

Maybe the management hasn’t decided on the exact promises they’re willing to make? Also there’s two years left before it becomes important, while previously there was always a generation going out of support within a year.

Or when you have the audacity to take a picture with it

This is referring to the recent news about Google gaining huge market share. This new drop simply means there was no dramatic change and last month’s data was flawed.

But it’s made by ✨Google✨, obviously it’s worth the superior manufacturing and quality assurance /s