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Google does not operate in mainland China.

I’m disappointed to see such nonsense on HN not flagged to death. Is this a troll comment that I’m too slow to get?

Seems like a story they spun with cherry-picked data to justify the removal of the dislike count.

This seems like a disingenuous whataboutism. You are free to not use Steam as a publisher. You can use Epic/GOG or choose to self-host. The biggest advantage of Steam is the conven…

NY Times had an article covering it yesterday - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/technology/apple-child-ab... The article seems to cover both sides of the argument fairly and nai…

So what? When you don’t trust the actors running the system, it doesn’t matter if the crypto is perfect. And right now, I don’t trust the maintainers of the CSAM database and Apple…

This happens in North Indian states as well where the state governments have gotten extremely trigger happy with cutting off internet access for trivial reasons like student exams.…

> it would be a cesspool like the Google play store I would suggest you use an Android smartphone from the last 5 years before making a comment like this. I use both iOS and Androi…

Thanks, that makes sense. Eventually, it does come down to trust then. I was under the impression that there was a technical reason as to why Amazon Sidewalk is worse than Find My.…

I don't own an Amazon smart device and I don't think I ever will so I cannot comment on whether there is actually a need for a feature like Sidewalk. Find My is also opt-out instea…

Are there any indications that the Sidewalk network can be used to relay other than device control information?

Can you please explain how Apple’s Find My is anonymous while Sidewalk is not? As far as I understand, Find My collects device location information through other iPhones and then u…

Can someone explain why there’s so much outrage against Amazon Sidewalk when it’s doing a similar thing to Apple’s Find My/AirTags which was met with almost universal praise?

Apple does this as well on iOS where certain stock apps like Books always open links in Safari even when you have a different default browser set.

>And if side-loading was alowed then every big player whose app users "have to have", e.g. Google, Facebook, Abobe, Zoom, Epic, would start their own independent app store (or dist…

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The Google keyboard on Android (and, I think iOS) already lets you do this[1]. Go to the emoji picker on the keyboard and select an emoji or two. You get 4-5 suggestions of randoml…

I'm surprised that this isn't a requirement for banks considering the very large number of scams going on in the US. In India, getting an SMS/Email confirming every card usage is a…

Interestingly, I find the same to be true about people who complain about Android here on HN. And I feel it is for the same reason as you've mentioned. I cannot count the number of…

Genuine question - I use WebEx Teams at work too and it works perfectly fine for the most part. It's also very lightweight compared to Slack. What do you find so terrible about it?…

I wouldn't be so sure to blame the OEM. Read this article [0]. Google dismissed a support ticket claiming that the OCR text selection feature was available only to Pixel devices re…

OCR text selection is available via Google Lens. What I'm talking about specifically is the ability to select out text from app pages where text selection is not usually possible. …

I wonder how many of the features advertised here will make it onto the Android 10 release of other OEMs. In Android 9 for example, the ability to select text via OCR in the recent…

If you had made the same statement but replaced Apple with Google or Microsoft, your comment would have been downvoted to death already. You shouldn't need an online ID to use a la…

> I've heard a lot of people in India are moving to it for personal and work chat ilo WhatsApp. I'm from India and I had to go look up what you were talking about. Literally the fi…