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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 philliphaydon »

MBCook wrote: post #284
notreallyserio wrote: post #267

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I have yet to see a single interactive notification. What settings do you have to configure to get Slack to let you reply from a notification?

I believe you have to grab the notification and sort of “drag it down” to see the interactive part. It’s not shown by default.

Long press on it to bring up the options. And drag to left for options to change notification preferences.

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

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Post by xony »

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…

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

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Post by lttlrck »

White_Wolf wrote: post #196
hellisothers wrote: post #59

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What does having root on your phone improve for you?

on top of what lawl said: - macros and scripts- it's nice not having to enable, disable etc stuff and just scan qr codes, nfc tags or use ble tags as markers to enable something - chroot - faking permisions and data for apps is a must - sim links to app data folders for easy backup/restore

The first point: shortcuts in iOS is very very good.

I tap an NFC tag to open/close my garage door (the tag is outside, next to the door)

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

sorenjan wrote: post #195
sylens wrote: post #157

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I have no idea if they will try it again someday, but I would love to see Microsoft give this another go. I think strong messaging about "quality over quantity" of apps would actually be a boon to them. I never go looking in the App Store for new apps anymore - just give me my video streamers, a Reddit client, Spotify, Slack, Discord, and Signal and I'm good to go.

Exactly. Years ago the number of apps in each app store was portrayed as "more is better" and a moat against new platforms. But realistically, how many apps does the average mobile user actually use, now that the novelty has worn off? I would guess that 75% of all users actually care about maybe 50 different apps combined, like Facebook, Netflix, WhatsApp, Spotify, etc.

It's been said many times that Microsoft could've won the mobile wars by simply taking a billion dollars, and paying the companies with the top 100 apps in the Apple app store to port their apps to Windows Mobile. That's $10 million each.

Instead, they spent billions and billions of dollars trying to attract developers to their platform before eventually shuttering it.

There was a phone with awesome hardware, an awesome mobile-first operating system, and practically no apps. Bill admitted his biggest mistake was being too preoccupied with the antitrust activity in Europe, and missing the shift to mobile computing cost him ~400 billion.

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Post by SxC97 »

recuter wrote: post #292
vidanay wrote: post #211

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I have a company issued iPhone, and the atrocious notification system is enough to assure I will not buy an iPhone personally. If notifications in iOS were ever completely overhauled to the Android model, I would probably jump ship.

You should watch the WWDC keynote in 6 weeks :)

Are you an Apple employee or are you basing this on the rumor mill?

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Post by lostgame »

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…

>> I cannot trust anything they make to be supported in the future anymore.

That's actually the largest reason I can't invest in Google's ecosystem, but that's mostly from a tech stack end.

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

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Post by me_me_mu_mu »

I used to be so into specs and customizing my phone until I got an iPhone. I had thought I'm going to feel like a caveman using some phone made for dummys, but honestly the phone just works. At the end of the day why was I installing all those custom apps? The stock experience was kind of shit, and you shouldn't need to overclock your mobile phone to get less laggy UI lol.

The iPhone just does the stuff you'd expect a phone to do kinda well out of the box- messages, email, facetime is cool, and camera. You install apps, they all look nice for the most part and work well enough.

On the flip side each time I use my samsung android tablet I'm overwhelmed by all these new settings (none of which I think I use?) and options.

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

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Post by cronix »

I think that's also about the time Apple started making some cheaper phone variants, which opened them up to more of the world in terms of being affordable to a wider audience. Apple always had the upper-end crowd and "prestige", but Android had a lot of the upper end and everything below, which is why they had 70+% market share. If Apple makes cheaper iPads/iPhones/iWatches, it will directly take away from Android in those spaces.

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Post by tootie »

me_me_mu_mu wrote: post #387

I used to be so into specs and customizing my phone until I got an iPhone. I had thought I'm going to feel like a caveman using some phone made for dummys, but honestly the phone just works. At the end of the day why was I installing all those custom apps? The stock experience was kind of shit, and you shouldn't need to overclock your mobile phone to get less laggy UI lol. The iPhone just does the stuff you'd expect…

Maybe so but that POV probably has zero bearing on their global market share. Affluent users have chosen iphone by huge margins forever. Android got market share by owing the low end of the market, especially in developing economies. The driving factor is probably just increasing affluence in China and India.
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