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I think i’m going to stick with my 6a until they move to their own processor (that’s not exynos)

Gmail (usually with +domain@gmail.com) is where my newsletters and unimportant emails go. I think I switched when they discontinued Inbox.

It’s almost like when companies try to build a wall, some people will try to break in, even for the sake of it, maybe the thrill of it, even if it worked for a minute.

Whatever their intentions, I’m glad they did. Apple got to strengthen their infrastructure (somewhat, users are still using it with access to a Mac), and it brought messaging interoperability conversation to congress.

People seem to forget Apple founders were doing this shit too. They build a blue box and sold it too.

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2015/11/the-phone-phreaks-and-steve-jobs-wozniaks-discovery-of-the-little-blue-box-recounted-in-fivethirtyeight-espn-films-short/

I just want to turn off Stories.

is Telegram FOSS on fdroid restrictive?

• Significant battery life improvements

• Granular Internet Acess Control (Give users option to prohibit apps from connecting to data or Wi-Fi)

• Something native like KDE Connect or Your Phone from Microsoft

• Something like Samsung Dex

• Unlimited Paypal money generator

There are so many things Google could do.

This is great news. usernames next, lets goooo

They are going to announce Youtube Music Messenger app in the next I/O, aren’t they? to add to their ever growing list of messenger portfolio.

Best way to use an Android is to stay as far away as you can from Google products or at least minimize it.

Protonmail, Organic Maps/Magic Earth, Signal, Firefox, Spotify, Newpipe, AntennaPod and so on.

dudes a redditor. getting enraged is a default setting.

finding solutions? nope, post more rage… that’ll fix it

what about this? https://kbin.social/m/android@lemdro.id/t/467656/To-improve-security-Google-s-making-it-slightly-harder-to-contribute#entry-comment-2442599

Google is not making Android for users, but itself as its advertising platform. Ever wonder why custom ROMs and even other manufacturers have a permission to block internet access for specific apps in their Android forks but Google does not? hmm… Alright

Google isn’t looking out for anyone but itself. These kind of restrictions and excuses are exactly what Apple calls “security”.

Just off the top of my head, Android allows multiple browser engines to work on it, allowing firefox to use extensions. Android can torrent, while you can’t on stock iOS without hacks. Firefox with extensions on Android is god send if you’re a power user.

For someone who claims to be a power user, it’s really showing… And don’t forget open source ecosystem is much much much bigger on Android.

Before that, it was hangouts and regular people didn’t know about it.

This is their biggest problem, They themselves fragment their user base. We were on hangouts, you could even get your google voice calls on it, we didnt’ switch to allo or duo, till they announced they were retiring hangouts. And now all three are gone.

We stay away from Google now.

how were they ahead of Samsung and other manufacturers exactly? genuinely curious.

Google owns it, as in Google gets the last say in what goes into mainline AOSP code. The code is open source but they decide what next Android release is going to be. You can submit a PR, they decide if it gets merged or not.

If anyone wants to make independent modifications over it, they can fork it, because the license permits it. Now the fork is not owned by Google. But Google owns the main android repository.

• Adds stories (most annoying feature on a messaging app)
• Can’t disable it

our biggest update yet

Meh

Not a smart watch, but a Mi Band fitness tracker.

Pros:

• works well enough
• Private
• data visualizations are great
• Advanced sleep tracking
• Lots of customization features

Cons:

• needs 3rd party app to sync weather
• Doesn’t exit cleanly
• Calendar sync has never worked for me (even though I gave it necessary permissions )

There are languages that are just not convenient to type on a keyboard. A stylus combined with a proper OCR keyboard app could read the handwriting and compose messages in a lot less time.

I just want a better battery/performance. The talk on r/googlepixel is they are getting good battery life in their 14 beta release. Hopefully stable release will be even better. But I’m not holding my breath.

I still have an original pixel xl for photo backup and a pixel 6a for daily use. I had Oneplus and Samsungs and a iPhone in between. Off the top of my head, the notification toggles have changed from simple squares to large rectangle bubbles. You could fit multiple toggles before, now you have 4 (portrait). The wifi and data used to be separate toggle, now they are inside “Internet”. To turn off wifi, you need to go inside Internet, then turn off Wifi. Some features and options are moved around different sections inside settings. It used to be double tap to wake the Pixel screen, now it’s a single tap. Uninstalling some System apps from playstore doesn’t actually uninstall it, it just goes to factory version, and an “Update” button is displayed.

It isn’t a significant change if you get monthly updates, but really annoys less technically inclined people who update less frequently, usually when things change for a more complicated process. Many google apps don’t even follow their own design language. On iOS, even though its interface is boring I can find settings when I help my parents or relatives even though I don’t use it much at all.

I’m not talking about the SMS app. We very rarely use SMS. First there was Google Talk, then Hangouts, Allo & Duo. Now there is Messages by Google, Google Voice, Google Chat, and Hangouts is still on the playstore.

For AI there’s Duet AI, Bard AI. These AI are not specifically on Android yet, but you never know with Google.