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Re: Android 10

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Post by garysahota93 »

gowld wrote: post #28
garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

How does the pressure manifest?

I've had a few friends passive aggressively mention I am the reason our group chat is MMS vs iMessage.

Or even worse: I just simply got excluded from group chats. That was the saddest one because when hanging out in person, a friend will mention a conversation from the group chat and I wouldn't know what's going on and they would just awkwardly pretend it didn't happen. Or say they'd add me to the group and never actually do it.

iMessage FOMO is a real thing and the social pressure (in the US at least) is insane.

Re: Android 10

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Post by rolltiide »

fooqux wrote: post #38
gowld wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Smart Reply send your messages to Google?

No, it uses the app's API to do that. However, the push notification from GCM does come from google and is possibly read though.

thats not a reliable assumption.

push notifications services can merely send instructions, and the visual notification can be an object formed completely client side.

Re: Android 10

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Post by camone »

garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

Also as a recent iOS user, I don't understand why. Other than live captions, sound amp and family link, most new features have been on iOS for a while, and will actually improve on iOS 13 (e.g. apps have to ask for location access each time, besides the current 3 options). Seems like they're trying to catch up to iOS.

Re: Android 10

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Post by JorgeGT »

izacus wrote: post #57
siffland wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks groovy, but my 2 year old LG is stuck at Android 8 with Security updates stopped in January. I wish android hardware was better supported for the long haul. I would even go as far as saying i would pay yearly for android maintenance than to pitch my phone for a OS update. My phone has plenty of power....at least we have XDA forums.

So why not buy a phone that has guaranteed updates? Like a Pixel or one of the Android One series? That's how you vote with your wallet. Android 10 will be deployed to 1st gen Pixels today too.

I got a Nexus 4 and it only updated from Android 4 to Android 5. Has the "three years guarantee" been extended?

Re: Android 10

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Post by ptx »

placatedmayhem wrote: post #46
bsamuels wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as dumb as it sounds, nobody likes to be a green bubble

It's not just green bubbles. Tapbacks are awkward and pictures and videos don't send as reliably. With my "green bubble" friends, we usually use Telegram or Signal or Keybase instead. I'd love to see a standardized IM/Text protocol instead of 1000 fragmented platforms. I've got on the order of 10 chat apps on my phone right now, all used in different contexts.

Try Matrix[1]. It's a protocol specification with multiple open-source implementations. It has federation so that you can choose which server to use (or run your own) and still communicate with everyone else. It has end-to-end encryption (although at the moment it only works in one client, but it's coming along).

[1] https://matrix.org/

Re: Android 10

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Post by GeekyBear »

Siecje wrote: post #35

> HEIF Imaging > Support for new file format (.heic) to save still images. What is the advantage of .heic images?

It's an image compressed with the same compression scheme that h.265 video uses.

It also supports animated gif style short video loops.

Re: Android 10

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Post by lern_too_spel »

rolltiide wrote: post #62
kbenson wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group. Man, in my extended family SMS text group, this comes up once every couple weeks. One of us will note they aren't getting a random message, or someone will send a video and the quality will be crap, and the iPhone users will all mention how if we all had iPhones, this wouldn't be a problem. Cue a few of is getting kind of triggered because it's only Apple's…

No iOS user thinks its "Android's" problem, but they do know that being on Android is the problem. iOS = 1 ecosystem. Android = infinite ecosystems with no cohesion. One has native capability and consistent user experience which is now better for social interaction. The other has people rationalizing how a non-native app can be used which also wouldn't solve the aforementioned problem of receiving a random type of me…

What is the benefit of this cohesion that you're missing? Why should different Android devices be any more cohesive in terms of features than Android devices vs. iOS devices? If you want the latest features, you buy an Android One, Pixel, or Nokia phone. If you don't, you buy an iOS phone or some other Android phone.

Re: Android 10

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Post by quetzthecoatl »

pranau wrote: post #37

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 apps screen was limited to only the Pixel devices for some strange reason even though all Android devices had access to that feature prior to the release of Google Assistant via the Google app. In a similar vein, Digital Wellbeing was offi…

it's available in every platform as google lens app.

Re: Android 10

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Post by rolltiide »

bhahn wrote: post #53
garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

iMessage pressure is real for me too. I was considering switching to an iPhone for a while but found air message and have been using it for a few weeks. It doesn't have all the features of iMessage, but core messaging works pretty well and I haven't felt a need to switch to an iPhone. https://airmessage.org/

do you appear as an iOS user to actual iOS users? I can't tell from the website
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