2016 – 2019retired
Google Daydream
“It dreamed big, but the rest of us never quite put our phones in it.”
“It split your screen, tamed your notifications, and never asked for thanks”
Android Nougat, codenamed Android N during development, arrived as the seventh major version of Android, first in alpha on March 9, 2016, and officially on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices first in line and the LG V20 the first phone to ship with it. It brought the small joys people actually noticed: split-screen multitasking, inline replies to notifications, and an expanded Doze power-saving mode. It also did the
The reviews were kind, with particular praise for the new notification format and the multitasking interface, though a few apps refused to play nicely with split-screen and critics had mixed feelings about Doze. By 2019, Google retired it, as operating systems do, making way for whatever came next. Its features live on in every Android that followed, which is about as dignified an afterlife as software gets.
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“It dreamed big, but the rest of us never quite put our phones in it.”
“It linked everything to everything, except people to people. Rest well, +1.”
“It snoozed our emails but could not snooze its own end.”