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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

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Post by pjmlp »

Klonoar wrote: post #687
pjmlp wrote: post #599

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You could have checked their profile.

I'm not clicking the username of every commenter I read just to account for details they should've put in the comment.

Well too bad, otherwise you would have found it quicker than the time it took to write two comments.

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Post by vbezhenar »

akerl_ wrote: post #330
vbezhenar wrote: post #259

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When I do those exact keypresses I also get "-4".

https://vimeo.com/1158134310?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Can you show what you’re seeing?

http://vimeo.com/1158294037

That's iOS 18.5, maybe they fixed it in later versions

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Post by JasonADrury »

freerk wrote: post #342
JasonADrury wrote: post #195

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Apple was among the first to implement USB-C in early 2015. A whole year before Samsung and the likes.

But not on mobile. First iPhone with USB-C was iPhone 15 released late 2023. The Google Nexus 6P phone had USB-C in 2015, 8 years earlier.

Sure, but the claim that "Apple only implemented USB-C due to pressure from the EU." is simply ridiculous.

Apple implemented USB-C at a steady pace across their entire product lineup, as is demonstrated by the timeline below:

  2015: 12in MacBook with USB-C released
  2016: MacBook pro switches to USB-C
  2018: iPad Pro switches to USB-C
  2020: iPad Air switches to USB-C
  2021: iPad Mini switches to USB-C
  2022: iPad switches to USB-C
  2023: iPhone switches to USB-C
If Apple only implemented USB-C because of pressure from the EU, you'd presumably be able to see a gap in that list during the period of Apple allegedly not implementing USB-C. There is no gap, because Apple was steadily moving users to USB-C since 2015.

It feels really silly to be spending time defending Apple over this, but the EU certainly does not deserve credit for iPhones having USB-C. I'm sure there are politicians who'd love for you to believe that, but it's simply dishonest propaganda.

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Post by Melatonic »

8note wrote: post #496
hoistbypetard wrote: post #425

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I don't know about categories overall, but I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there, nor is there any near equivalent as far as I can tell. I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod. Microsoft Office apps work much better on iDevices, in my experience. (I know they exist for Android, but I've never had much luck editing there, where it actually…

how do you live without ublock on your browser though? firefox with adblock is the high quality youtube app

Orion browser on iOS is great and can run Firefox and Chrome extensions. Also has built in Adblock

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Post by Melatonic »

embedding-shape wrote: post #236
manuelabeledo wrote: post #218

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The iOS YouTube app is not worse than the one in Android. Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages). And I’m curious to know what makes Antenna Pod so much better than the thousands of other podcast apps out there. Social media apps have historically been worse in Android, because of lax app and privacy controls. > What else is there, where is the advantage? P…

> Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least Since some updates ago, my keyboard is still broken if I type too fast, and autocorrect been essentially broken for the same amount of time. Must be happening for ~years now, still waiting for a new update to finally fix it. At least on Android you can change the keyboard to something else if you'd like, instead of being stuck with what your OS developer force…

If you turn off swipe or swift or whatever they call it the iOS default keyboard is much better

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Post by FrozenSynapse »

Sideloading is already painful. I tried installing Sora (which is not available in my region's Play Store). The phone didn't allow me to start the app (complaining about integrity) unless I disabled the Play Store Integrity Checks. It wasn't straightforward in saying what the problem is and how can I bypass the check.
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