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"
That implies that there's some sort of end goal in sight, when in fact it just appears to be pointless and neverending churn to ensure that no UI feature stays consistent over more than two OS releases. This is the pattern for any new Android and Windows release - not familiar enough with OS X to say - it's not "what new features have been added" but "what have they broken this time, and how much of it?". I'm not sure if this part is deliberate or not, but it also means that anyone trying to use their pla
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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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They havent tried: rounded sides and rounded face yet.
You left out the new killer craze, round phones /s
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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"
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I can't wait for this to be released along with a horde of cries from Slashdot users complaining that they can't get the update on their phone.
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