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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 lawl »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #428
lawl wrote: post #35

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> Is it seriously worth it for people to do stuff like this? For the vast majority, it probably isn't. Also, I'm not full RMS since I would consider using an iPhone which definitely has closed-source components :) I don't think it would be that much of a hassle to me, since I already don't use a lot of the "nice" apps etc. The way most people use their phone is quite alien to me. E.g. I much prefer old.reddit.com ove…

there are plenty of free reddit apps that don't have banners or "buy me" ads.

> there are plenty of free reddit apps that don't have banners or "buy me" ads.

no. i don't want an app. thanks. i want your desktop website, yes on mobile with a touch screen. yes i'm weird, i know.

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

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Post by bengalister »

kaba0 wrote: post #494
bengalister wrote: post #442

I really don't understand the hype for the iphone. I own a oneplus 8t on Android 12, I particularly like the 120Hz display and the very fast charging (65w). When my battery is almost dead I can get to 30% in just a few minutes. Android 12 has been a big improvement, it is really snappy and good looking (Android 11 was already good). I bought the phone 550Euros, and during the last black friday it was sold for 350Euro…

What advertisement are you talking about?

Well notifications to subscribe to AppleTV, digitalize a payment card into Apple Pay and another notification for the Apple watch.

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

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Post by qsdf38100 »

SergeAx wrote: post #440
qsdf38100 wrote: post #360

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Huh? I didn’t give away my contact list. Neither to Facebook nor to Signal. As I said you can use Signal without allowing access to contacts. You can enter telephone numbers directly. Was I being unclear?

You gave your contacts either to Apple, or to Google, by using their OSes.

I would expect Apple not to sell this data. They don’t need to, and the bad press if it gets exposed could loose them more money. Their business model doesn’t require it.

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

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Post by timothyduong »

privacyking wrote: post #465
ninjakttty wrote: post #122

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VLC is currently #18 in the app store in the media player category. It's not just some linux app. As to how to get flac files on the iPhone, 1) you can connect it a computer open Finder go to apps section drag the file there 2) put the file in the iCloud and access it from any device with the files app on 3) in Safari if a link is a media file you can share it with VLC and that's just 3 off the top of my head, I thin…

1. Requires a Mac. 2. Requires a proprietary apple service. I'm starting to notice a trend with your suggestions. 3. Are you really suggesting people manually download their files one by one? Rofl.

Isn’t the poster replying on the options for downloading FLAC to a DAP on IOS?

What is the options for Android?

I don’t know of any native android solution that allows for sync to sync desktop or online platform for specifically FLAC files without a backend user/server/client service that is native.

What’s your alternative?

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

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Post by SergeAx »

qsdf38100 wrote: post #503
SergeAx wrote: post #440

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You gave your contacts either to Apple, or to Google, by using their OSes.

I would expect Apple not to sell this data. They don’t need to, and the bad press if it gets exposed could loose them more money. Their business model doesn’t require it.

Facebook is not selling this data too, afaik. It's too valuable. They are using it to target paid ads. Apple's ads business is still in its infancy, but it will inevitably grow bigger to justify their share price. I beleive, however, that at least their music recommendation system is lavishly fed on their social graph data.

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

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Post by SergeAx »

TingPing wrote: post #364
SergeAx wrote: post #291

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This is totally US problem. Any other country - no one even consider using proprietary OS chat app. Everyone uses either WhatsApp (Europe) or Telegram (exUSSR, Middle East).

These are just more proprietary apps. I think you mean cross-platform.

Yes, by proprietary I meant platform-walled, thank you for clarifying.

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

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Post by mixedCase »

hypothesis wrote: post #260
mixedCase wrote: post #233

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SafetyNet?

Are you somewhere where banks won’t let you use their website and force app usage?

Essentially but not exactly. Their website is unusable on a phone. Just switching from mobile mode to desktop mode after login will expire your session.

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

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Post by anotherevan »

iggldiggl wrote: post #463
lawl wrote: post #87

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A few example of the top of my head: - DriveDroid to boot a PC, I haven't used a USB stick to boot off in... years? - /etc/hosts - Viper4Android for system wide EQ - Messing with user hostile apps such a firefox when they disable your addons although they still work, proven by the fact that I was able to make them work again as root Edit: more things - Wireguard kernel module - Adding a CA to the trust store to MITM…

- Adding a CA to the trust store to MITM yourself - GravityBox for various UI tweaks and making volume control a little more fine-grained - UMS Enabler to expose your external SD card as an USB drive (accessing it via MTP isn't really fun and doesn't work everywhere [1]) - proper local backups and therefore the ability to e.g. relatively painlessly revert borked app updates - sometimes due to bugs cruft accumulates i…

> proper local backups

What do you use for your backups?

I've used Titanium Backup in the past, but it has some issues in Android 11 and seems to no longer be maintained.

Trying OAndBackupX (recently rebranded as NeoBackup) but the results are not great. Hoping the next major version cleans it up.

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

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Post by grumpyprole »

timothyduong wrote: post #504
privacyking wrote: post #465

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1. Requires a Mac. 2. Requires a proprietary apple service. I'm starting to notice a trend with your suggestions. 3. Are you really suggesting people manually download their files one by one? Rofl.

Isn’t the poster replying on the options for downloading FLAC to a DAP on IOS? What is the options for Android? I don’t know of any native android solution that allows for sync to sync desktop or online platform for specifically FLAC files without a backend user/server/client service that is native. What’s your alternative?

Android presents a filesystem when plugged in to a computer, so almost any file sync tool should work.

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

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Post by fsflover »

rglullis wrote: post #456
fsflover wrote: post #448

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My Pinephone and (soon) Librem 5 are guaranteed to have support for the lifetime.

Is there any practical difference between 7 years and "lifetime" or you just want to get into a "let's see who supports FOSS more" measuring contest?

My 12+-year-old laptop is fully functioning with Debian now. It serves well till today and I don't see any reason to through it away.
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