Google Says Farewell to Desserts

tubemonkey · 08-22-2019, 01:08 PM

Google deserts desserts: Android 10 is the official name for Android Q

About time! Besides, what dessert begins with the letter Q?

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Google has officially named the next version of Android, which is due to be released this fall: Android 10. Breaking the 10-year history of naming releases after desserts, the company is bailing on providing a codename beginning with a subsequent letter of the alphabet (in this case, Q), which is the way we’ve been referring to Android up to now. This year is Android 10, next year will be Android 11, and so on.

After a quarter of quiet, the quintessence of Android’s brand has quickly changed without quarrel, resolving a quandary and quitting the quixotic quest to pull a Q dessert out of the quiver. Google won’t quaver on the decision to move away from desserts, which answers a quadrillion querulous questions about the names. Google has decided it is a quaint tradition that needed to be quite quashed — or at least quelled. Instead, the codename will be quarantined inside Google, so I have qualms and feel queasy about the quantity of quips that will queue up quoting the Android source code in an attempt to quibble that the dessert names still qualify as real. It all seems like a quagmire, but at least qualitatively, the new naming scheme is less quirky.

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Going with a new naming scheme for the 10th version of Android makes a bit of sense; it’s a landmark release. Still, given how difficult it is to put a common dessert to the letter Q, I noted to Google’s Sameer Samat, VP of product management for Android, that it was awfully convenient that Google picked this release to switch up the naming scheme.

frahse · 08-22-2019, 01:32 PM

Well, I am really a bit underwhelmed, but I guess I will manage.

rem736 · 08-22-2019, 01:42 PM

that, i think, is a record on the number of "q" words used in an article.

lumpynose · 08-22-2019, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Google deserts desserts: Android 10 is the official name for Android Q

About time! Besides, what dessert begins with the letter Q?

Quenelle? That's the only one that I could think of, and I wasn't even sure what it was.

https://guide.michelin.com/en/articl...at-is-quenelle

Apache · 08-22-2019, 02:50 PM

Quinoa Pudding?????????

Apache

lumpynose · 08-22-2019, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Apache

Quinoa Pudding?????????

Apache

Can you buy puffed quinoa? Imagine making Rice Krispies treats with that.

fjtorres · 08-22-2019, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Google deserts desserts: Android 10 is the official name for Android Q

About time! Besides, what dessert begins with the letter Q?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ceQQb3N5Cg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melicoccus_bijugatus

Quenepas.
Picked at the right time they are mildly sweet, slightly tangy, and great to suck on. A seasonal fruit they just happen to be in season right now.

(They can also be fermented to make killer booze. Taino indians knew their stuff.)

Tarana · 08-22-2019, 05:34 PM

What was wrong with Quince Pie?

fjtorres · 08-22-2019, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Tarana

What was wrong with Quince Pie?

It didn't look as "advanced" as Windows 10 or iPhone X.

j.p.s · 08-22-2019, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by fjtorres

It didn't look as "advanced" as Windows 10 or iPhone X.

Roman numerals are advanced?

fjtorres · 08-22-2019, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by j.p.s

Roman numerals are advanced?

Some people seem to think higher numbers are a sign of superiority.
And they think roman numerals are sexier, than mundane hinduarabics.
But Google went with the mundane me2 way instead of a way more clever "Android 00001010".

tomsem · 08-22-2019, 08:00 PM

Using the English alphabet, they were going to run out of letters. There’s always been a numeric version to every Android release, but maybe they wanted to reserve the possibility of skipping a number, as Windows did going from Windows 8 to Windows 10 (what the heck is wrong with the number 9? Apple skipped it for iPhone as well..). Surely it is not the Curse of the Ninth?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_ninth

If so Google has already been cursed.

I hate Roman numerals. I bet even the Romans hated them. They should never ever ever be used again. It might have been an honest mistake, but it is one of the first things I would want to correct when time travel becomes broadly possible.

In keeping with the times, perhaps there should be an emoji for every release.

lumpynose · 08-22-2019, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tomsem

I hate Roman numerals.

Apparently you're not a member of the faux intelligentsia.

lumpynose · 08-22-2019, 09:08 PM

What about using the year, like Microsoft did with Windows 95? But make it the full year; Android 2020.

DuckieTigger · 08-23-2019, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by lumpynose

What about using the year, like Microsoft did with Windows 95? But make it the full year; Android 2020.

Android 2020 sounds more like a movie.

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tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,466 Karma: 25996225 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Using the English alphabet, they were going to run out of letters. There’s always been a numeric version to every Android release, but maybe they wanted to reserve the possibility of skipping a number, as Windows did going from Windows 8 to Windows 10 (what the heck is wrong with the number 9? Apple skipped it for iPhone as well..). Surely it is not the Curse of the Ninth?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_ninth If so Google has already been cursed. I hate Roman numerals. I bet even the Romans hated them. They should never ever ever be used again. It might have been an honest mistake, but it is one of the first things I would want to correct when time travel becomes broadly possible. In keeping with the times, perhaps there should be an emoji for every release.

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lumpynose Wizard Posts: 1,086 Karma: 6719822 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Palm Pilot M105	What about using the year, like Microsoft did with Windows 95? But make it the full year; Android 2020.