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It's really not a usability concern. It works great. I didn't even notice until OP mentioned it (I imagine others woudlnt have noticed either but now will, thus my post)



Just wanted to pitch in and say i didnt notice it either until it was mentioned here. Your points are both incredibly controversial while still having reason. I kind of wonder if a similar mentality can observed in iOS vs Android. Are android users more critical of their own ecosystem as compared to ios users? That hasn't really hurt android's market share, but perhaps that's mainly due to the premium price of iPhones.


Could be! Could very well be. I personally prefer android devices because there's more variety.

As for my controversial take, I'm just trying to limit the abuse of our collective goodwill by marketers, generally. They take advantage of our good nature as we assume the best possible interpretation of their actions/words, or pretend as if the generosity of FOSS devs deserve the same criticism as a trillion dollar company just because the end results look the same on our phone. People would see it differently if they stood everyone at Google beside everyone at OSMAnd for example. Google has an astonishing 135,000 (or more) employees. OSMAnd has 20 if you include major contributors.

For visual reference, here is what 113000 people looks like: https://inteng-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/images/import/2017/0... Google has 20-30 thousand more than that.

20 people don't fill up a bus.




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