How is this at the top of HN? There's a lot to argue against Google and Android, but this is just inane. Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone? This is clickbait for /r/apple at best...
Exactly this. The Moto G6 boot animation resembles more a video game cut scene. Its inappropriately loud and flashy and doesn't match the rest of the Moto G5/G6 experience. It cannot be muted, I hated rebooting it.
Edit: it can be switched off. settings=> sound=> advanced=> startup sound
> Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone?
The typical argument of people without any aesthetic taste: it's inane, it doesn't matter, etc. I, for one, find it perfectly reasonable to complain about such a thing.
Would you buy a suit with a giant drawing of a penis on its back? It's inane to complain about it, right? Well, some people actually care about the appearance and design of things.
I say this as a Linux user and "FOSS zealot". Linux distributions have many design quirks and, let's face it, usability deficiencies. I use Linux despite that fact, because I prefer dealing with those deficiencies instead of dealing with the user-hostily of Microsoft and Apple, but if someone complains about the deficiencies of Linux I don't go around calling them inane.
For example, he mentions the issue of getting updates one by one, or being stuck with an old system.