Google ditches dessert names for Android

It's the end of an era: Android Q is now called "Android 10."

Google announced in a blog post it's ditching Android's dessert names (Pie, Oreo, Nougat, etc.) in favor of numbers. As such, Android Q, which comes out "in the coming weeks," is now just Android 10.

The name change ends over a decade of dessert names for its mobile operating system. 

But why the change? Google says, while dessert names were fun, they "weren’t always understood by everyone in the global community."

The tech giant says dessert names aren't as inclusive as numerals for a number of reasons: different cultures where a certain dessert may not well known, challenges for non-English speaking users to pronounce names, and confusion for new Android users who may not know which version they have on their device(s). Read more...