https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/

the funniest part about this is that google seems to think people like their hardware but its mid in every respect.
i always assumed (as do many others) that pixels represented the bar; the minimum of what you have to offer to be considered a functional phone experience and it was on the other (main-line phone manufacturers) to provide the frills.
pixels have no frills; and so by blocking asop development then for what goddamn reason would you waste your money on a pixel device? Lmao. Every other phone manufacturer outside of budget ones and weirdo chinkphone shit blows them out of the fucking water its not even funny.
so what's the point? or are they just -that- deluded?