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Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by tomaskafka »

mg wrote: post #94

The people at Google seem to think much more like me than the people at Apple. There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me: 1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles. 2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unso…

I’d love to use the android phone, as they seem to have much better and actually useful AI integration, but they are not phones but “advertising company tracking devices with tacked-on end user functionality”. Similarly, Chrome is not User Agent, it’s Corporation Agent.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by theandrewbailey »

leeoniya wrote: post #273
vader1 wrote: post #271

The lack of a physical SIM tray is just one more way to lock users in Google's walled garden. eSIM support is not implemented in Android itself (AOSP), but part of the proprietary GMS package. This means Google-free Android forks like LineageOS will be unusable on the Pixel 10 series :-(

does this mean no GrapheneOS either?

It supports eSIM. Two months ago, I bought a Pixel 9a, immediately put GrapheneOS on it, and registered an eSIM.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by hamdingers »

himeexcelanta wrote: post #528
rchaud wrote: post #523

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which phone brand did you use where it was falling apart after a year? The rest of your comment sounds like you're saying you preferred the iPhone because it takes the option of customizability away from you entirely, instead of simply sticking to the level of customization on Android that worked for you.

Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC EVO 4g, Motorola Droid. I used to do all kinds of things…tether to my laptop without it being supported in my data plan, torrent, etc. I also got tired of the platform skins depending on the manufacturer. If I’m not going to utilize the customization of Android, then I might as well go with the more consistent and refined experience out of the box. Also iMessage! Hate to say it but my social gr…

> Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC EVO 4g, Motorola Droid.

Sharing your opinions without first prefacing they're 12-17 years out of date is disingenuous

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by gruez »

v5v3 wrote: post #501
paulddraper wrote: post #478

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Apple is much more strict on app tracking (and apps in general).

Yes. As an example I think Androids have a single device ID which is given to all apps. But iOS has a per app device ID.

Yes, specifically both have some variant of "advertising ID", which is shared across all apps. The difference between iOS and Android is that iOS requires you to opt every app into receiving it, whereas Android is opt out. However on top of this Android has a "gsf" id, which is shared between apps, and can't be changed without a factory reset.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by fariszr »

trog wrote: post #545
fariszr wrote: post #540

Unfortunately these new phones don't fix the main issue with the Pixel: the hardware. The performance is just unacceptable, it's already 50%+ slower than a snapdragon 8 elite flagship released in the same year. This affects everything, pixels just don't last nor have great battery life for this reason.And the big issue is they aren't even much cheaper anymore. I like GrapheneOS, but my pixel just randomly stopped wor…

My last two Pixel phones - 6a and 7a - were both "recalled" with battery issues. I got almost a complete refund for both, and got keep the phone (my 7a died a few months after the recall, 6a is still going strong). I got a 9a to replace them just because I didn't want to have to deal with learning iPhone, but I'm fully expecting the 9a to fail with a similar issue so looking at buying an iPhone soon as a backup so I…

At least you are buying the cheap A series, my experience was with the XL/Pro phones.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by snypher »

iamdamian wrote: post #497
StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #467

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Could anyone here waxing lyrically about Apple so called privacy stand explain to me what that actually is apart from a marketing point Apple keeps repeating? Because from where I stand they do load everything into their cloud. They insist on having you pay for iCloud through obnoxious means. They have you go through their store for everything. They even have an ad platform. What supposedly so good about it? Their tr…

> Could anyone here waxing lyrically about Apple so called privacy stand explain to me what that actually is apart from a marketing point Apple keeps repeating? The end-to-end encryption guarantees on this page seem pretty real to me and have little to do with marketing: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

Can any of this be verified or confirmed independently?

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by gpm »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #547
gpm wrote: post #135

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> - Chrome/chromium is adware garbage now. FireFox is the only browser I use This is actually one of the stronger arguments in favour of Android's though, you can install (real) firefox and (fully functional) ublock origin, while Apple prevents you from doing so on their non-macos products.

Firefox on Android isn't just a reskin of chrome? When did that change?

It never was. There was firefox lite 2018-2021 that was apparently, but going back to 2010 Firefox was Firefox.

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Post by baby_souffle »

coldpie wrote: post #446
expensive_news wrote: post #433

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This thread seems to have a lot of people that love the iPhone mini (me included - I still use my 12 mini). But from all reports that you can find with a quick search it seems clear that it did not sell well by Apple standards. I would love them to bring it back and I’m not sure what it is about the Hacker News crowd that makes this phone over-represented. Maybe the tech crowd also uses laptops more, so we think of p…

> by Apple standards Yeah. The question I'm trying to answer is not "does it make sense for Apple to make a small phone?", but rather "does it make sense for anyone to make a small phone?" I'm using the 13 Mini's sales data as evidence, because it is the one and only small phone made in the past decade or so.

I understand why you'd reach for that data, not a ton of other alternatives... But I'm not convinced that an arbitrarily chosen brand could achieve those sales figures. Especially if it was a new or no-name brand that didn't have a proven track record with software updates and hardware build quality.

Maybe I'm just incredibly naive but I have this small hope that we'll see a return to smaller phones that are trifolds for when you need the real estate.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by gruez »

delichon wrote: post #20
jjice wrote: post #10

> Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone. Running Gemini Nano on device is the most interesting thing here. Magic Cue sounds exactly like the Siri improvements that Apple failed to launch this past year (and have stayed mostly quiet about for this coming year, except saying "eventually"). I hope it works well, because on-device AI for simple…

Or for the police, "list any legally questionable content on the phone or behavior by the owner."

Why would the police bother with that when they have forensic extraction tools, that itself possibly has AI built in? Why trust a quantized model on a phone that possibly could give you wrong answers?
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