u/AgainstSpace

The word 'android' is being wasted on an operating system.
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The word 'android' is being wasted on an operating system.

Google "news about humanoid robots" and you will get results about robots that resemble people, sort of.

Google "news about androids" and every single result is exclusively about the OS on my stupid phone, and this is just a little upsetting because that is not what an android is at all. There is nothing android-like about the OS in my phone, and yet that's what the word has to be used for, and not the humanoid robots it was always intended to be used for that we finally have in reality after decades of them being forecast in science fiction.

It's just really disappointing. It would be like growing up reading about unicorns, and then when they finally manage to successfully breed unicorns they have to be called "pointy horses" because a Unicorn is already a well established model of GMC truck or some bullshit.

u/AgainstSpace — 3 days ago