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Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by smm11 »

doix wrote: post #87
saiya-jin wrote: post #47

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Funny that you pick on the hardware. I'd use an Apple phone if it could run Android, the hardware is the only positive thing I say about Apple stuff. My girlfriend has an iPhone 14 Pro Max and camera/microphone are good and and the lidar stuff is pretty cool. The software is completely and utterly unusable for me. It reminds me of when I used to help my grandparents with technology, except now I am the grandparent. N…

I'd buy a iPhone in a heartbeat if I could run "Galaxy" as a VM on it, saving data to the cloud, blah, blah.

Which I guess is an option by this afternoon at least.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by pawelduda »

etra0 wrote: post #92
jsheard wrote: post #10

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IME Android phones tend to feel smoother nowadays thanks to 120hz displays becoming widespread even in the midrange. Apple has 120hz on their Pro models but if you drop just one notch down from that $1000+ flagship then you're immediately back at 60hz.

My experience, sadly, has been the opposite. I had an iPhone 13 Pro Max with 120hz, and switched to a S22 Ultra, and although I can see the animations at 120hz, most of the time they feel stuttery. I always was an Android user until that iPhone, I had it for about a year, and switched back to Android again because I thought I was missing some stuff, but I was wrong, I don't miss a thing of current Android, I think cu…

Years ago, back when Androids had even worse animations, I would just speed them up to the maximum (via developer settings), or disable entirely. I got used to it and still do it today. Action feedback is faster, and I don't need my device to be visually awesome anyway.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by Y_Y »

tiffanyg wrote: post #95

The incessant Apple (iOS) / Google [and manufacturers] (Android) sniping is truly a sight to behold. People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for" (i.e., give money, personal data, and free promotion to). People who often act as if they have an appropriately suspicious view of corporations in just abo…

> "From my tutor, [I learned] to be neither of the Greens nor the Blues, the Parmularius nor the Scutarius; to bear hard work and have few needs; to do my own work and mind my own affairs; also — have nothing to do with gossip."

That's Marcus Aurelius in the ”Meditations" talking about supporting teams at the chariot races and gladiator fights. It seems very human to get all tribal about something subjective and inconsequential. Ancient Rome had the same fanboyism, just in a different arena.

(I have a phone that just runs Alpine Linux, but I know better than to try and tell anyone about it.)

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by circuit10 »

Uehreka wrote: post #79
redbell wrote: post #71

This is a piece of art! Since this is -I guess- a project made for fun, it would nice to open source it, so we can learn from it. Maybe then, we can make the opposite project, TryiOS.com

I’m pretty sure this is an ad for Samsung phones, not a project made for fun. It also isn’t as deep as it first appears. This isn’t “Samsung’s Android compiled to wasm”, it’s “a web app that acts like Android until you click on the wrong thing whereupon it stops you from going too deep”. Like, most of the Settings screens aren’t even built out.

Yes, I think I’ve seen ads for this site

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

denkquer wrote: post #85
rvcdbn wrote: post #83

Kind of wish this actually worked as a phone by running Android in the cloud. Would be really useful to have a second phone inside an app for all sorts of things.

for example? I don't see how it would be useful at all

Android for Work already lets you isolate some apps in their own little container with separate data, but this would let you keep it safer by never having that data even physically present on the phone.

Actually generalize that: Depending on your exact threat models, this is a great way to have data that can't be lost or stolen just because your device is.

For a large enough app it's probably less data intensive, not to mention much faster, to run the app in a cloud data center where it has effectively unlimited bandwidth, and just stream a video of it over a smaller network connection to the phone.

Creating virtual phones in cloud is probably an easy way to create a lot of them, which allows you to do things like run untrusted apps in complete isolation without access to any of your data or other applications.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by abvaw »

tiffanyg wrote: post #95

The incessant Apple (iOS) / Google [and manufacturers] (Android) sniping is truly a sight to behold. People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for" (i.e., give money, personal data, and free promotion to). People who often act as if they have an appropriately suspicious view of corporations in just abo…

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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by neodymiumphish »

netbioserror wrote: post #98
neodymiumphish wrote: post #40

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I was a hardcore proponent for custom ROMs and unlocked bootloaders for the first ~10 years of my mobile phone experience, mostly Nexus and Pixel devices. With OneUI that came with the S10, I've changed my opinion. It's a much better UI and UX than AOSP or Google's default Android experience. I still support the devices that include unlockable bootloaders for long term updates and customization, but OneUI is hard to…

I use my phone as little as I can bear. Barebones GrapheneOS, Fdroid for most things, browser for bank/maps, and four days of battery life. Every proprietary Android ROM is a downsell for me.

That's fair, but your use case is far from any average users out there, and probably would scare most users away from Android entirely.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by smoldesu »

jbluepolarbear wrote: post #60
windexh8er wrote: post #56

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> not to mention privacy I believe it's a stretch to say that Apple has the best privacy experience in the market, unless you believe Apple's marketing pitch on "privacy" verbatim. I think the best privacy on a smart phone today is likely GrapheneOS. Apple has sold it's users on privacy, but in actuality Apple is a for profit platform that has, and will, target it's users data as it needs to delight it's shareholders…

Which phone comes with GrapheneOS in the market? For off the shelf phones, Apple is still one of the best option for privacy on the market. Market is being able to buy a phone as is, not install a 3rd party OS.

If they're the best the market has to offer, we ought to start demanding better competitors. Apple is a cardholding PRISM member with proven backdoors in their OS. They're also a noted pushover and were fine instating total iCloud surveillance when China asked nicely.

It's a victory if you want it, but utterly pyrric when both of the options on the "market" are useless for privacy.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by RussianCow »

windexh8er wrote: post #96
jbluepolarbear wrote: post #60

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Which phone comes with GrapheneOS in the market? For off the shelf phones, Apple is still one of the best option for privacy on the market. Market is being able to buy a phone as is, not install a 3rd party OS.

I disagree completely with this sentiment. We've been told that's how you buy a phone. Do you also buy generic servers or PCs that way? Where you can only run one OS? Apple is the anomaly here. Phones should be able to run different OSes as well. The fact that there's a defense of Apple's not-so-great privacy record with "the market says this is what Apple says a phone is" - is an unfortunate, and successful, marketi…

> Do you also buy generic servers or PCs that way?

Yes, the vast majority of people don't install a custom OS onto their computers, either. So for the average person, this doesn't matter.

> What you're arguing is that I should be fine with Apple because you can't install another OS.

That wasn't my interpretation of the OP. The fact that it's possible, with a lot of effort, to get a privacy-centric device after the fact means nothing for the general public because they are never going to take those steps. So I think it's still reasonable to define "the market" as whatever the devices ship with.

It's great that we have the ability to install privacy-focused operating systems on some Android devices (I have one), but if I were to suggest this to any of my friends, they would laugh me out of the room. There is far less resistance recommending Apple products.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by stronglikedan »

tiffanyg wrote: post #95

The incessant Apple (iOS) / Google [and manufacturers] (Android) sniping is truly a sight to behold. People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for" (i.e., give money, personal data, and free promotion to). People who often act as if they have an appropriately suspicious view of corporations in just abo…

The best thing about us Samsung fans is that we get to give our personal data to both Samsung and Google!
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