Google's final release of Android 10 is coming soon, with new branding
Google has shifted its branding for Android, and is ditching dessert and confectionary names going forward.
New color scheme and branding for Google's Android
In a news post about the change and rebranding, Google has elaborated on the reasoning behind the change.
"Our engineering team has always used internal code names for each version, based off of tasty treats, or desserts, in alphabetical order," said Google. "This naming tradition has become a fun part of the release each year externally, too. But we've heard feedback over the years that the names weren't always understood by everyone in the global community."
Google also noted that new Android users unfamiliar with the naming convention had no idea if their devices were running the newest version.
"As a global operating system, it's important that these names are clear and relatable for everyone in the world. So, this next release of Android will simply use the version number and be called Android 10," said Google. "We think this change helps make release names simpler and more intuitive for our global community. And while there were many tempting "Q" desserts out there, we think that at version 10 and 2.5 billion active devices, it was time to make this change."
Android 10 is coming "in the next few weeks" according to Google. Beyond test devices previously announced, it isn't yet clear which devices will be able to update.
Google debuted "Android Q" on May 7. Improvements cited by the company at the time included permission pop-ups from apps, allowing people to choose between always-on, in-app, and fully blocked tracking. Apple has offered this since 2014's iOS 8.
Other security enhancements include disk encryption on low-end phones, and individually-updatable OS components. That means that if a critical security issue is discovered in one part of Android, Google and other device makers don't have to push out full-scale releases.
New color scheme and branding for Google's Android
In a news post about the change and rebranding, Google has elaborated on the reasoning behind the change.
"Our engineering team has always used internal code names for each version, based off of tasty treats, or desserts, in alphabetical order," said Google. "This naming tradition has become a fun part of the release each year externally, too. But we've heard feedback over the years that the names weren't always understood by everyone in the global community."
Google also noted that new Android users unfamiliar with the naming convention had no idea if their devices were running the newest version.
"As a global operating system, it's important that these names are clear and relatable for everyone in the world. So, this next release of Android will simply use the version number and be called Android 10," said Google. "We think this change helps make release names simpler and more intuitive for our global community. And while there were many tempting "Q" desserts out there, we think that at version 10 and 2.5 billion active devices, it was time to make this change."
Android 10 is coming "in the next few weeks" according to Google. Beyond test devices previously announced, it isn't yet clear which devices will be able to update.
Google debuted "Android Q" on May 7. Improvements cited by the company at the time included permission pop-ups from apps, allowing people to choose between always-on, in-app, and fully blocked tracking. Apple has offered this since 2014's iOS 8.
Other security enhancements include disk encryption on low-end phones, and individually-updatable OS components. That means that if a critical security issue is discovered in one part of Android, Google and other device makers don't have to push out full-scale releases.
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MacOS 2001, MacOS 2002, MacOS 2003, and so on has a nice ring and more logical. If Apple does with iOS 1.... 14, then there's no reason MacOS cannot have the same versioning.
MacOS 10 was released in 2001 and doesn’t tell me squat... Do I really care how many revisions it has? You can’t tell me that no major revisions occurred between 2001 & 2019... Shouldn’t it be at least MacOS 11 by now?
MacOS 2019-9 for next months release?
it took Google a long time to get onto the 10 (X) bandwagon. Samsung has been pushing 10 products for a while now too.
I do believe it’s time to turn everything up to 11! (Thanks Spinaltap)
In truth I like the idea that we force the rest of the world to a yyyy.mm.dd version tracking system. It will be a rude awakening for the android rank and file to see what’s being foisted on them.
The bigger takeaway for casual readers is that the actual Android OS version is becoming less important. Various OS components, operating features and security patches are being rendered updateable by Google outside of a full version upgrade that might require significant OEM involvement due to proprietary skinning of the OS by the individual companies.
macOS does have the same; 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 ... 10.15. It just also happens to have a name associated with it.
WRONG.
Sammy intentionally skips security updates because they aren't responsible for their users nor do they give a sh** about them.
People who are dumb enough to support knockoff iPhones that data mine them aren't smart. Even statistics have proven this.