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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 iggldiggl »

anotherevan wrote: post #508
iggldiggl wrote: post #463

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- 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.

I tried looking for a replacement app for that last year or so, but didn't find anything really satisfactory, either. Didn't try OAndBackupX, though, because my phone's currently too old, but "the results are not great" doesn't sound very encouraging, I guess :-)

So while it's a bit clunky, for now I'm relying on a combination of Titanium Backup (at least on my phone it's still working fine except for split APKs) + SAI to do an extra backup of split APKs.

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

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Post by milosmns »

tasuki wrote: post #458
milosmns wrote: post #336

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Also from EE, now in central EU. Everyone uses WA and Telegram, nobody on SMS How far east are you?

Oh I'm not very far East, actually I'm from Central Europe. The Brits kindly told me there was no such thing as Central Europe, just West/East, so I stick to saying that on the internet :) I'm from the Czech Republic and often spend time Poland. No one I know forces me to use WA or Telegram, everyone's either on G Hangouts or FB messenger.

Oh wow! Hangouts! Big surprise tbh :)

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

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Post by Georgelemental »

urthor wrote: post #432
Georgelemental wrote: post #92

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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

Is this your custom ROM, or is it a widely known one?

LineageOS with MicroG

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

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Post by afterburner »

freedomben wrote: post #527
afterburner wrote: post #133

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It seems though in the latest iteration at least, the Pixel 6 is actually worse than the Samsung S22. And frankly I've often felt like Samsungs were the flagship Android phones, not Google's phones.

Kind of a late comment but I really do wish Samsung would make a serious attempt at a "stock android" type of device that was affordable, because I think they would kill it. Their phones have always seemed really high quality to me, but so expensive, and the S2 that I had back in the day was riddled with Samsung versions of apps that I didn't want.

Samsung's A-series are excellent affordable phones.

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

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Post by Handytinge »

grumpyprole wrote: post #438
tigershark wrote: post #377

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In what world VLC is “some niche piece of software that the vast majority of iPhone users will never use or hear about”? You REALLY never heard of VLC?

VLC and free open source software certainly won't offer "just works". If you are happy to go down this path, then Android will offer more free open source apps for you.

It seems more likely that the majority of iOS users (and likely Android users too) just don't care.

I would be shocked if > 20% of Android users manage their own music library rather than using one of the standard music streaming services.

You've picked on iOS (incorrectly) for not being able to playback FLAC, then shifted argument. The point was proven that you don't need to buy into Apples ecosystem for this.

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

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Post by Handytinge »

Espressosaurus wrote: post #514
codr7 wrote: post #117

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I use VLC, which works great. I don't use iTunes, ever, anywhere; and I feel sorry for anyone who does.

VLC, fine. How do you transfer .ogg or similar files to your iphone?

You can use iTunes, the VLC web interfacr, iCloud, Dropbox, NextCloud and probably a myriad of other ways I haven't considered.

It's not 2008 anymore.

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

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Post by Handytinge »

modeless wrote: post #373
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…

Apple has fooled you. iMessage is not end-to-end encrypted as advertised. If you use iCloud backups then all your messages can be read by Apple and by extension law enforcement. If you decide not to use the only allowed cloud backup option for iPhones, then your messages can still be read by Apple on the other end when your friends have iCloud backups enabled. Apple has not end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups of iMes…

Isn't the friends phone one of the ends?

It sounds to me like it is E2EE, but people can opt in to back up the message after decryption. How is this different to any other E2EE program?

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

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Post by Handytinge »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #467
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…

I won't switch to iPhone for two reasons. 1) I can't afford that shite. 2) I don't want control of my device taken from me. On #1 - I buy a cellphone to be contactable, and to browse the web on the move with a reasonable modicum of speed. I rather dislike the whole "hey, our app is far better than our website" movement in the industry, because I know that "far better" means "far better for tracking and targeting you"…

Sounds like you might have picked the wrong product. The iPhone SE is significantly cheaper and has the button still. Probably a great purchase if she doesn't want the latest hardware widgets.

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

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Post by hollerith »

f1refly wrote: post #454
lizardactivist wrote: post #447

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Yes Fuschia is the new OS from Google, and I believe (and I may be wrong) they will eventually use this as the basis for newer versions of Android, together with a compatibility layer to provide a smooth transition. From what Google, and other knowledgeable people who have studied the project (it's open source) say, the big differences will be in performance, memory efficiency, and security. I'm not knowledgeable abo…

Most importantly Fuchsia isn't gpl'd like the current system, so there's a high propability we can wave the whole custom os scene goodbye.

Then you will be horrified to learn that neither FreeBSD nor OpenBSD is GPLed.
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