I didn't upgrade the OS during stress time, that happened last December when I didn't read the BEWARE OF THE DOG notification.
I never said I dislike Material Design, it's actually quite pleasant (until something else becomes the fad and it all changes overnight). I was only unhappy that it arrived without warning. It also changed the appearance of some command buttons/text and I didn't know what to touch. Although, perhaps the control changes were caused by app and not OS updates (or both). Textra (SMS app) was the worst offender as the buttons suddenly turned into "darts" which looked like decorations or directions to other screens, not commands at all. When I first got the phone I tried to get SMS working, but it was once again utterly incomprehensible and it seemed to be asking me to sell my soul to Google. Web searches found countless other complaints and everyone suggested I install and use Textra, which went well until a couple of months ago they notified me that it was no longer free and a bright random ad appears at the top of the contact list. Whoopie! *GK* On 3 July 2015 at 14:32, David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 at 11:27 Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was unfortunately wedged by the urgency of showing someone my pictures >> and taking photos and suddenly discovering the dramatic UI changes and >> didn't have time to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things >> over. >> > > You are definitely the first person I have met who undertakes an operating > system upgrade when they're wedged by urgency. > > I'm not entirely sure why you have such a strong dislike for Material > Design that you do... IMO it is finally fulfilling the promise of a > non-skeuomorphic design that world+dog has aspired to, but failed to > deliver (anything that people liked to use). > > Google photos is amazeballs - notwithstanding the recent bad press/brain > fart it did with that black woman in the us. > -- > David Connors > da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363 >
