They might as well get rid of the device's ability to display color. Using a monochrome screen might save battery life too - no more RGB colour filters so it's gonna be brighter for the given backlight power.
PLEASE I hope Google designers don't read this! I don't want to give them any ideas.
Oh, I forgot about the camera.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 (I think? might have been an older S) actually had this as a feature that was late removed. The phone could be switch to black and white mode. I actually used this regularly for usability testing while building mobile web sites. And it did save battery life, because they used a quad-dot OLED (RGBW), with the RGB disabled and only the W illuminating. But for some bumfuck reason they removed the feature in a "security update"
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Wait, so are we doing rounded corners, or are we not doing rounded corners? This seems to keep going back n forth constantly!
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Pointless changes? Check.
Harder to view? Check.
Even less contrast between elements? Check.
Definitely a more "modern" UI. They're not going to stop until everything is some shade of light grey on a slightly less light grey background.
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The Samsung Galaxy S5 (I think? might have been an older S) actually had this as a feature that was late removed. The phone could be switch to black and white mode. I actually used this regularly for usability testing while building mobile web sites. And it did save battery life, because they used a quad-dot OLED (RGBW), with the RGB disabled and only the W illuminating. But for some bumfuck reason they removed the feature in a "security update"