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> I think the real problem is Google Play Services. It's far, far too tightly integrated in a way that it just seems like Android was designed to be unusable without. This is someh…

however, it is quite neat for Apple if employees are "voluntarily" giving up their privacy by merging their accounts and indirectly allowing Apple to monitor their whole digital id…

and then the evolution of the whole tool slows down as the answer for most limitations in native functions becomes "just use the 'code node' and write the function there" :)

> 7-10% of homes in UK are custom/self-build homes Worth to note that there is a huge practical difference between a "custom" and a "self-build" home. - On "self-build" you take fu…

Apple rather wants to make it unattractive for users who frequently change phones to 1. Consider trying other brands 2. Pass on their existing (still quite capable) phone to a fami…

The hobbyist device maker in me took waaay to long to be certain that this is NOT about physical batteries... (was already confident, then there's suddenly a screenshot mentioning …

The headline would be more appropriate if it said "Oppo stops Sales under OnePlus brand" For the past years OnePlus wasn't much more than a sub-brand for slightly redesigned Oppo d…

> people buying iPhones because of hype and not because they were meaningfully better than the competition in ways that many people valued. Is that not what you meant? No, hype and…

That's the point, the dimension is "yeah, the ODM also offers a 2 USD cheaper hub that uses a USB2.0 controller for 7 of the 8 ports" , and now you're browsing a list of equally lo…

The headline "Oppo stops sale under OnePlus brand in US and Europe" would be more appropriate. OnePlus products were mostly slightly redesigned Oppo products for the past years, bu…

> Apple explained that it found a bug while investigating internal messages between a then-current employee, Yu-Ting “Alyssa” Peng, and an engineer [..] Chang Liu. > Liu left Apple…

My first thought whenever I come across such a badly-engineered no-name device is "oh great, another bad reference design which will poison the pool of all the available devices ou…

I like the hilarious commitment to art, by Paramount/WB committing to "make at least 30 films annually". Who says anyone will want to see one of those "we had to release 15 more, s…

I don't know why you're coming to the rescue of the iPhone here. Everyone knows it was a successful product, no one said that the iPhone was "unappealing in the market". Quite the …

> [..] the Maps experience on its own was enough of an improvement to justify it To justify what? What exactly are you defending in such an emotional way...?

> Microsoft paid $7.2 billion for Nokia's loss making phone division in 2013. There's no way anybody would have paid that much for just another Android OEM. They paid for a fully o…

For YEARS to come, carriers refused to rectify this skewed market, so while Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Samsung, LG had to continue jumping through hoops and could only earn money a…

> Partanen was also at Nokia’s post-iPhone launch meeting, and recalls that there was little concern in the room. “We felt okay,” he says. Which is a perfectly reasonable reaction,…

“This is yet another competitor launching a great product. But we had no doubt that, if it’s successful, we would do the same. We will launch similar products.” In November 2008, N…

that mystery was quite easy to solve via Google. Searching for "waydroid_x86_64 LineageOS 20.0" leads to a sourceforge page [0] of waydroid with LineageOS builds that have 70-80k d…

All of my installs I can think of are actually "unofficial builds", none of them are Smartphones. There are e.g. LineageOS builds for Tablets and also Smarthome devices, like the A…

The Xiaomi Mi 8 was the fastest-selling Xiaomi device of all time, it's estimated to have sold more than 20 Million units. It was so crucial to Xiaomi's userbase that they supporte…

funny enough, just noticed on jailbreak that my kindle touch web-browser never lost its "beta" label, in all those years :)

Everybody, get up, we're leaving. Jailbreak your kindles and move to epub. It's not that difficult. Buy books at Kobo or bookshop.org There are so many functional kindles out there…