There many people with dyslexia and other stuff like that and using some other font like comic sans can make a huge difference on them, yet there is no way to easily (I think) change the font on our devices. We should be able to just download and load the font. What do you think?
Should we be able to? Absofuckinglutely.
Unfortunately, it’s another casualty of the looks of the device OS being part of the brand. Essentially: if you chose a font that countered the brand look Google (or even more so Apple) is striving to maintain, you would decrease the value of their brand. So they don’t let you. Remember the first iPhones? You couldn’t set a wallpaper. The background was black. Period. It would have been perfectly possible to allow a user to set a wallpaper. But when the wallpaper was black, anyone seeing the iPhone’s home screen could immediately recognize it as an iPhone. It took four fucking iPhone generations until you could change the wallpaper. Not being able to change the font is that concept, but on not quite as many steroids.
Is it stupid? Absolutely. Unfortunately, it’s probably not going to change any time soon, because it seems this branding works for those companies, users be damned.
God, I hope Linux phones get more usable, and fast.