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Google is so unreliable with their Nexus tablets i didn't expect them to give us any of the KitKat features (transparent nav bars, immersive mode, touchless control, ART) even with this 'update.' with them all omitted they should just call it Jelly Bean. that's what is left. nothing changed or done.

screw you Google. i want my $499 back. i've been jipped. even the Galaxy Note 2014 edition has outclassed you ten to one. screw your excuses only stupid people would believe too. performance issue? seriously? the Nexus 7 is less powerful yet you gave IT transparent bars...

I am going to start calling Google Apple until they start giving us our options/freedom back without the need to root/jailbreak. As it stands all the Nexus devices i hoped would mean something sit unused in the drawers taking up space. unless anyone wants to buy them i'm going to bin them. a shame but Google had a chance to provide and they have not. sick of them treating us all like morons.
 
Can't say the lack of transparent bars bothers me, it's still one of the best tablets I've used.

I'm certainly not as incensed as some people are!
 
I agree. The tablet is still good and a cosmetic thing like transparent bar is not an issue.

My wife is happy with it & if she's happy with it, then so am I :D
 
My understanding was that an issue did exist right up to just before launching 4.4.2. It turned out the performance issue was actually an issue fixed in coding but too late to make it for the release. Now with 4.4.3. since they now have the fix, it could have been enabled but it looks like we were forgotten. I would have liked to see it as well but I'm not tossing out a $499 machine based on that.

Overall the tablet still serves me well. So in the end I can't complain too loudly.
 
The amount of screen estate, the mere size is broken by the black bars. If you have seen a LG G Pad, the transparent bars really is nice.

But 4.4.3 I will call Jelly Bean until we get the things that make it KitKat. Until then it is just a version number.
 
You can call it whatever, it is what it is. The only thing missing is the transparent bars. All else is KK including fixes, battery life, improved memory usage, WiFi connectivity and a host of other things. While agreed most are transparent, pardon the pun, without looking directly for them they are there none the less.

In the end hassle Google, call them daily, invade all the blogs etc. you can. Just in general be as much a pain as you can be. In the end it is the squeaky wheel that gets oiled. :)
 
what point is there in even updating if they give us *nothing?*

seriously the 2012 Nexus 7 gets more love than the twice-more-powerful 10. it is inexcusable. KitKat is just Jelly Bean with white status bar icons. everything else is stripped out. what good is there in even owning a Nexus if "Apple" won't even support it during its 18-month support cycle?


Google really has stopped innovating after Jelly Bean. Glad i replaced my Nexus with a Galaxy Note. at least Samsung can add in useful festures in 4.4. all Google has is 'hey look at these white icons!' 'oh, your 10.1 inch screen only has 9 inches of useful space'

geez and folks complain about physical buttons on Samsung devices. at least i don't have my screen taken up by a hideous nav bar that just asks to get fingerprints.
 
KitKat is more than immersive and white nav bar icons. We've gone through this dance before

If you think google stopped innovating we weren't watching g the same I/O ;)
 
Such unhappiness! I've no issues with the UI on my nexus devices (the 5 and 10) and I love my Chromecast, it does what I need it to do.

People are entitled to an opinion of course.
 
I am sure folks loved their Nexus Q too until Google killed them so they could charge $35 for essentially the same thing.

Perhaps I just expected Google to support a $499 device more than an older $199 device. The 2012 Nexus 7 got transparent bars.

Only workaround for that on the 10 is using Nova Launcher to hide the status bar entirely and use skeuomorphic HD Widgets in their place.
 
BynoUK said:
The 2012 Nexus 7 I have doesn't have transparent bars (running 4.4.3)
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Are you using Nova launcher, or some other one, that supports the bars? Mine Using Nova launcher, with the N10, just says in settings for the launcher that the device does not support it.
 
nickdalzell said:
I am sure folks loved their Nexus Q too until Google killed them so they could charge $35 for essentially the same thing.

Perhaps I just expected Google to support a $499 device more than an older $199 device. The 2012 Nexus 7 got transparent bars.

Only workaround for that on the 10 is using Nova Launcher to hide the status bar entirely and use skeuomorphic HD Widgets in their place.
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You keep saying KitKat is no more than jellybean with transparent bars - I guess I don't understand the anger over not having them then


And the nexus Q was a $300 product that they never sold - those that preordrred it got the device free. Google could have kill it whenever they decided to
 
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