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Looks like they're still only available in "Huge" and "comically oversized". I guess I can keep buying Pixel 4s until new ones (req for battery) are no longer available.
Unfortunately I think this means Google will keep having to sell huge phones for a while
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As a consumer, I lament most of all about Pixel devices (or any other Android device really) that I have to wipe the OS and install a different one to get features that matter to me, particularly around privacy. Thats why I don't use Pixel devices, or any Android devices really. I know its a precarious situation with Apple since they could reverse their stance at any point and sometimes they get it wrong, but they ha…
Apple isn't privacy oriented, please quit spreading this misnformation. The only thing you can say about them is that they are marginally better than google but that isn't saying much. Their supposed respect of privacy is just marketing.
google and apple, apple is the best in this privacy field
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You can raise that gripe with even something like signal. Sure, it's open source, but when was the last time someone reproducibility built it?
People reproducibly build Signal all the time. There's a bug right now that makes the play store version differ from the one you get by downloading off their website/build from source, but you can examine the differences to see they're minor.
source? Is there a site that tracks this, or only shows up when someone raises an issue on github?
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If you cannot understand what made Apple successful then or today what makes you think you're not failing to grasp something? You head right on to making an argument when nakedly revealing that you can't comprehend the other side. Not surprising, this site is made for the Woz's of the world (and that's fine!).
> Not surprising, this site is made for the Woz's of the world (and that's fine!). I'm pretty sure Woz perfectly understands why iPhone has a larger market share. I use a Pixel too, but I can see that an iPhone is more appealing to 80%+ of world's population.
Meanwhile my Pixel 2 is still rocking after 7 years of daily use.
This seems like a good place to randomly drop my thoughts on switching from a Samsung s20+ to a Pixel 9 Pro. The hardware is excellent in the hand. The display is great, battery life excellent, the UI is snappy, does all the basic things I expect from a quality device. Over all, no huge regrets..... but... The scrolling in every app is just "different" from the Samsung, and in a "not as good" way. I moved to Pixel wi…
As a former Pixel and current Samsung user, I can relate to almost everything on this list except for the Camera app. What is it that you prefer about the Samsung iteration? I found my preference to be for the Pixel version.
My app and photo quality preference are OnePlus > Pixel > > > ... > Samsung. shrug Really it could be a toss up between OnePlus and Google depending on generation. My partner's Pixel 7 takes nearly as nice photos as my OnePlus 12.
My Galaxy photos were... very watercolor paint. I could not stand them.
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Same for me, although I currently use an iPhone (and the rest of the Apple ecosystem). I actually don't like iOS, and barely tolerate macOS but I love the hardware on mac right now. For me, it's Apple's privacy stance (which I know could change at anytime, but that's where we are at right now). Give me a Pixel & all the Google stuff but without Google, and with advanced data protection and Apple's tracking protection…
>Give me a Pixel & all the Google stuff but without Google https://grapheneos.org/
It is such a breath of fresh air. It is so quiet and functional. It feels like it prioritizes me, the user. I am so grateful to have this OS.
Of course it has flaws, but they're lesser flaws. Like the crop tool is sometimes unusable in the gallery app. I can live with that. I couldn't live with the AI onslaught and spyware infiltration.
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Sure, browsers can navigate without your input, but what good would that do to bypass permissions? You can't use that to automatically grant your website permissions. And permissions are isolated to specific domains as if they were separate apps, so you can't just use permissions granted on domain A from domain B. Not everything needs to be a PWA. Yes, they're great alternatives to apps, but why should anyone be forc…
Like I said, it’s surface area. It’s much larger in the case of the web since there’s any number of scenarios in which a user’s browser can be coaxed into running code that exploits a vulnerability that bypasses permissions and isolation (which is always possible by virtue of the browser being a privileged app, whether there are known exploits or not). This sort of thing can happen with installed apps too, but the li…
Personally I would trust browser security far more than an OS simply because it is a much more desirable target to compromise. They're also built specifically to run untrusted code.
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It's easily solvable with a case. I agree that it's silly that Apple does it this way, but I struggle to see how it rises to the level of being a fundamental flaw like file management is.
The wobble actually factors onto my device choice as well. It's just annoying to live with for the life of the phone if you can't find a case that widens it, which many don't.