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Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by x0x0 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #81
lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

Long time Google fanboy here, and I'm honestly a hair's breadth away from buying an iphone 13. I have had nexus/pixels phones since the gnex. I have evangelized android to for almost as long. I did ground work for google by pushing people into google's services. I have a day 1 pixel 6 pro. I pay for cloud storage and yt premium. But to me google is just falling apart. I feel like they have lost their technology drive…

The security upgrades situation on Google is intolerable.

I finally have a phone (3axl) that didn't die in a couple years from accidents / abuse / going to the gym in my pocket, and Google is eol-ing it because they've cut off security upgrades.

My next phone will be an iphone.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by Georgelemental »

hellisothers wrote: post #59
lawl wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pick your poison. The only reason I'm still on android is because at least I can (still) have root there. I'm saying still because of safety net. But if apple let me have root, i'd probably prefer an Apple over Google. Mobile phones and their user hostility is a cancer. I'm seriously considering using a full GNU/Linux handheld for mobile things i can do in a browser, and keep an android phone for app garbage tha…

What does having root on your phone improve for you?

I use a custom ROM on my Pixel phone to strip out all the user-hostile tracking. It works quite well honestly, no major usability sacrifices

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by grumpyprole »

xvector wrote: post #83
Espressosaurus wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you play it? How do you import them into your library? If it's not mp3, aac, or m4a, iTunes won't index it, it won't end up in your library, and any of the standard music apps will not play it. Speaking from experience because this is a continuing pain point for my music collection that includes oddball formats like flac, ogg, and others--none of which I can even get on my phone without using a cloud service.

Nevermind, looks like I had some conversion going on to get those files on my iPhone. It's irrelevant anyways, since AAC is audibly transparent to the human ear.

AAC may not be audibly transparent after its transcoded for Bluetooth. If you are using Apple headphones then this of course shouldn't happen, but for Sony's LDAC, better to start with FLAC.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by notatoad »

QuikAccount wrote: post #48

I've been heavily considering getting an iPhone because of how terrible the Android experience but my problem with Apple is that you are either fully in their ecosystem of you aren't a worthy enough customer in their mind. I have no desire to use iCloud or Apple mail or have an AppleID. I just want a small phone that gets updates, has maps, and has a decent music app.

I've been using an iPhone without any apple services for the last year and a half and it's been a pretty pleasant experience. Gmail, Google Maps, Spotify all work fine and there's nothing prodding you to switch back to apple services. It's much improved compared to ~5 years ago when I last tried iOS.

You need an apple ID for the app store, but that seems pretty reasonable.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by lotsofpulp »

grumpyprole wrote: post #68
lostgame wrote: post #30

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Huh? In what world can’t I use FLAC files on my iPhone? VLC does it great, I use them almost literally every day…

How do you even get the files on the iPhone? I see long blog posts discussing the steps needed for this. Not really "just works" is it?

I type in the URL shown in the VLC app on my computer and drag and drop files to it, when I am connected to same network of course.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

> A media library, with WiFi Uploads & Downloads, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive & Box.com integration and optional passcode lock.

>Web Interface for easy uploads and downloads to/from device.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by Mikeb85 »

naoqj wrote: post #77
Mikeb85 wrote: post #72

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And where did I say that?

You said that "people use [androids] to do stuff" as if you couldn't do stuff with iphones.

I said the open, cheap and ubiquitous nature gets it into the hands of people who care about doing things. The implication is not that you can do more rather that you can do the same without spending as much on an iPhone (especially since in most of the world people buy devices outright).

And it's the truth. You can do the same with a $400 Android as a top of the line Samsung/Apple device save some games...

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by deathanatos »

grumpyprole wrote: post #19
lumb63 wrote: post #7

I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&T ran the promotion to get a free one. I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me: - Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in subst…

But the iPhone only "just works" if you completely buy in to Apple's ecosystem. E.g. if you want to buy some FLAC music files from somewhere else, it won't "just work" anymore. Android is still the lesser of two evils in terms of allowing more choice on its platform.

The last time I had an iPhone (for work) it required an adapter to be able to connect to a MacBook Pro.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

Apple’s support cycles must play a part? You can get a 6S or SE from 2016 that will run mostly fine still at an okay price.

That’s without even mentioning the nightmare of trying to weigh up dozens of Android phones over multiple years, finding out which ones still work reliably several years down the line, etc.

Re: Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

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Post by IMSAI8080 »

marcodiego wrote: post #2

Sure: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-201001-20... ?

A more interesting thing I see on those stats is Android looks likely to beat iOS in tablets in the next couple of years. I don't know anyone at all with an Android tablet. I thought Apple had the tablet market pretty much conquered.
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