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One week with the Google Pixel

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Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by stanleydrew »

voxic11 wrote: post #9
ebbv wrote: post #5

Half the positives on this list I find to be kinda crazy to be positives. For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook? Less drastically I question the need to hide apps away in an app drawer. If you don't use the app then just delete it. Am I alone in feeling that way? I'm glad he's happy and the Pixel seem…

Facebook SMS support is client side only. They do not get your texts in any way.

They don't get your texts in the message routing sense, but they absolutely have access to the content and could be shipping it to their servers every 5 seconds or whatever.

I don't think they are probably doing that, but there's not really any way to prevent them from doing that.

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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voxic11 wrote: post #9
ebbv wrote: post #5

Half the positives on this list I find to be kinda crazy to be positives. For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook? Less drastically I question the need to hide apps away in an app drawer. If you don't use the app then just delete it. Am I alone in feeling that way? I'm glad he's happy and the Pixel seem…

Facebook SMS support is client side only. They do not get your texts in any way.

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Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by spankalee »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #14
ebbv wrote: post #5

Half the positives on this list I find to be kinda crazy to be positives. For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook? Less drastically I question the need to hide apps away in an app drawer. If you don't use the app then just delete it. Am I alone in feeling that way? I'm glad he's happy and the Pixel seem…

I think the messenger part was the ability to give an app of your choosing permissions to be your default SMS app, and in this case he chose Facebook's. App drawer, it's personal preference but personally I like having a single home page and the rest of my apps in my drawer. But again that's just personal preference, I'm sure a lot of people would call it a negative because they have to manually move an app out of th…

By default new apps are added the the home screen as well, so without curation you have a very iOS-like experience.

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #6

"3. Deep Google integration - This shouldn’t be surprising in any way, but having Google built into pretty much everything you do on the phone is seriously useful." This is my main sticking point with Android lately. I would much rather have a stock Android OS + device from Google, and then add the few Google services I want. Instead Google is getting more and more baked into everything, and understanding how my data…

Why else would Android exist than to get people (and their sweet, sweet user data) into the Google ecosystem?

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by ebbv »

nattaylor wrote: post #16

I've been wondering if I was missing out on the iPhone's 3D touch feature, for interacting with photos, messages, etc. The author didn't mention missing it, so I guess I'm not.

I haven't found it very useful. Certainly not a reason to choose iPhone over Android. I have other reasons (like privacy concerns and ecosystem lock in).

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by untog »

voxic11 wrote: post #9
ebbv wrote: post #5

Half the positives on this list I find to be kinda crazy to be positives. For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook? Less drastically I question the need to hide apps away in an app drawer. If you don't use the app then just delete it. Am I alone in feeling that way? I'm glad he's happy and the Pixel seem…

Facebook SMS support is client side only. They do not get your texts in any way.

Excuse me if I don't believe that - even if that is the case today - that it will be tomorrow.

That said, if you already use Messenger for talking to friends, adding SMS isn't going to make a huge difference.

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by pionar »

ebbv wrote: post #25
nattaylor wrote: post #16

I've been wondering if I was missing out on the iPhone's 3D touch feature, for interacting with photos, messages, etc. The author didn't mention missing it, so I guess I'm not.

I haven't found it very useful. Certainly not a reason to choose iPhone over Android. I have other reasons (like privacy concerns and ecosystem lock in).

Honest question - Why would you say Android is worse at ecosystem lock-in than iOS?

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by iamdave »

nowayyeah wrote: post #17
askafriend wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's never been about the features. We have this conversation every single time. Users care about the experience, and features are only a portion of the experience. That's what Apple really truly gets and other companies miss time and time again.

More than "experience" is about feeling special about spending thousands of euros on a stupid piece of plastic and be among the "elite".

How many people can you count in your circle factually bought an iPhone for that precise reason?

Re: One week with the Google Pixel

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Post by ebbv »

stanleydrew wrote: post #19
ebbv wrote: post #5

Half the positives on this list I find to be kinda crazy to be positives. For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook? Less drastically I question the need to hide apps away in an app drawer. If you don't use the app then just delete it. Am I alone in feeling that way? I'm glad he's happy and the Pixel seem…

> For example having Facebook Messenger handle your SMS messages. Really? You want to voluntarily give all that info to a company as user hostile as Facebook? The operating system shouldn't be paternalistically responsible for preventing this kind of preference. Some people do want to voluntarily give this information to FB in exchange for a simplified or more integrated messaging experience. I don't happen to be one…

You absolutely can only have 4-8 apps on your iPhones home screen. You can move them all off to another page. You could move them to the fourth or fifth or whatever page if you don't want them on the second page.
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