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I am a big Linux fan and appreciate the openness and control that I can get with Android as opposed to Apple and Microsoft products, but... My Android experience has been shit, and I'm really getting sick of it. Admittedly, much or even most of the problem for me is the OEMs screwing things up and not sending out updates.
Replaced by Chrome ("that giant hog"). I'm on a slightly older phone, but I actually removed Chrome from it not long ago. I started having problems with updating apps due to insufficient space, and while I have a fair amount of crap installed, I also have ~2.5GB of "Phone" storage for apps so I started investigating (this is separate from "sdcard" data storage which is ~8GB). Turns out Chrome, at least on the HTC Ama…
It's this sort of thing that puts me off Android as a platform. Even my mother got sold a 2.2 handset recently (Samsung Galaxy Ace) that hasn't been patched for the best part of 3 years. You never know when you're going to end up with a lemon on your hands. Big jump to this conclusion but I'm more inclined to trust Microsoft at the moment as they have a better reputation for lifetime (unlike Android), have a very pub…
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"So the bug is only for a browser that isn't supported by Google?" Wait, what ? I'm not an android user, but I am a chrome user on all of my desktops ... can someone enlighten me ? How is chrome not a browser supported by google ?
AOSP Browser is the unsupported one. Google deprecated it in favor of Chrome.
Replaced by Chrome ("that giant hog"). I'm on a slightly older phone, but I actually removed Chrome from it not long ago. I started having problems with updating apps due to insufficient space, and while I have a fair amount of crap installed, I also have ~2.5GB of "Phone" storage for apps so I started investigating (this is separate from "sdcard" data storage which is ~8GB). Turns out Chrome, at least on the HTC Ama…
I am running out of space because Play Store and Google Framework get bigger and bigger. It fills me with rage how Google actively makes my old phone less capable over time for no benefit to me.
I recognize that there are a bunch of features now that I get to enjoy, but now I have to choose which ones I want to keep.
When I switched, 20MB was a big app. Now I have at least 30 apps that are bigger. Chrome in particular seems bogus. The desktop version isn't even this big.
Chrome : 211MB
Facebook: 116MB
Google search: 70MB
Google+: 65MB
Amazon: 60MB
Mantano Reader: 54MB
Dropbox: 50MB
Google Play services: 50MB
Google Text-to-speach engine: 45MB
Hangouts: 35MB
t-mobile my account: 33MB
SwitftKey: 33MB
Kindle: 30MB
Evernote: 30MB
BaconReader: 28MB
twitter: 25MB
Hulu: 25MB
Google Maps: 24MB
Google Drive: 24MB
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> If you care about running only open source software, that's going to be very hard to do in the Android/Google-Play ecosystem. yet, the main advertisement google trhows for android is "open source" "community driven" yadda yadda
Main advertisement? I just went to android.com and developer.android.com; android.com advertises "Google built in" and lots of platforms, with a very small link to AOSP at the bottom of the page; developer.android.com has an AOSP link buried in its menus.
It's this sort of thing that puts me off Android as a platform. Even my mother got sold a 2.2 handset recently (Samsung Galaxy Ace) that hasn't been patched for the best part of 3 years. You never know when you're going to end up with a lemon on your hands. Big jump to this conclusion but I'm more inclined to trust Microsoft at the moment as they have a better reputation for lifetime (unlike Android), have a very pub…
Android One is meant to make it simple for lo-end OEMs to ship high quality implementations of up-to-date Android and keep up with new releases. It's hard to migrate a huge OEM ecosystem to that kind of program quickly.
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Yes, this continues to be a problem that I hope Google addresses somehow. I got the Samsung Galaxy Nexus because I assumed it would be kept up to date with the latest Android version, since it's using the Google brand 'Nexus' name. I even asked the sales representative if it would be kept up to date (knowing I couldn't trust them, but was looking for any extra assurance), and they said yes. Right now it's at 4.3 and…
Just switch to CyanogenMod or other custom compilation; there is a gain from Nexus brand in the ease of unlocking bootloader (;
CyanogenMod doesn't have any way to distinguish which phones are currently receiving security fixes in a timely manner and which are not; nor do they have any list of security advisories covering packages they distribute (go look at any notable desktop/server Linux distro — they all have public lists of security advisories and documentation of what release fixes them).
To my knowledge there is no Android distribution that has anywhere near the cohesive security story — and they're all miles behind any desktop OS.
Replaced by Chrome ("that giant hog"). I'm on a slightly older phone, but I actually removed Chrome from it not long ago. I started having problems with updating apps due to insufficient space, and while I have a fair amount of crap installed, I also have ~2.5GB of "Phone" storage for apps so I started investigating (this is separate from "sdcard" data storage which is ~8GB). Turns out Chrome, at least on the HTC Ama…
I am running out of space because Play Store and Google Framework get bigger and bigger. It fills me with rage how Google actively makes my old phone less capable over time for no benefit to me.