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Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by carlosjobim »

StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #581
carlosjobim wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones. The thing is that web apps are always a worse experience if you have native apps. Linux and Android (and now also Windows) depend on web apps because they don't have good quality native apps. For Apple devices you can always find a top quality native app to use, so web apps aren't any concern. The o…

> Linux and Android (and now also Windows) depend on web apps because they don't have good quality native apps. I fail to see any iOS without an equivalent native application on Android when the Android application is not actually significantly better. iOS really is a minority os here and it shows.

I had a really hard time finding a good email client for my Android tablet.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by levocardia »

rafaelmn wrote: post #158

I am considering switching to Google, I am getting annoyed by Apple more and more, but the critical feature for me is AI assistant. I am the first to criticize the LLM hype and I do not expect much out of them - but the fact that I cannot get Siri to turn a single light in my room instead of all of them is just FUBAR from my perspective. Siri is such garbage at this point that the gap between it and ChatGPT app is un…

Well if you switch to Google you can enjoy a timer app that takes between 12 and 16 repetitions of "Stop!" before it stops beeping!

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by eulgro »

xvfLJfx9 wrote: post #557
eulgro wrote: post #505

Meanwhile my Pixel 2 is still rocking after 7 years of daily use.

You are also rocking a bunch of security vulnerabilities then, because this thing is EOL for a long time.

I have the latest LineageOS version and the 4.4 kernel will be EOL in 2027. So no.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by summm »

gruez wrote: post #567
herpderperator wrote: post #511

Have they fixed the ability to easily transfer your existing Android data to the new Android phone? I find that every time I upgrade, despite choosing the options to transfer apps/settings, that 90% of the apps I open just greet me with the login screen and I have to set everything up completely from scratch. I remember maybe a handful of apps, I think one was Uber, that were able to transfer everything including the…

Blame the app developers, not google. They specifically added a backup/restore mode for device to device transfer, that bypasses backup blacklists[1]. However apps can still opt out by registering a backup agent, and returning no data. [1] https://developer.android.com/identity/data/testingbackup

Google actively avoided providing a local, secure, and seamless backup or even an interface for 3rd party backup services to make users more dependent on Google cloud services. Of course many app developers decided the Google cloud is too insecure, being not end-to-end encrypted. And Google enables them by not giving the users ways to override those stupid decisions. This wouldn't have happened on PCs, where you can mostly just copy over the application's user directory.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by GuB-42 »

627467 wrote: post #615
GuB-42 wrote: post #607

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The size is about what every manufacturer settled on, and what most people want, it is unfortunate that smaller phones are not an option but it doesn't sell. What bugs me however is that thin body with a huge camera bulge. Do anybody actually like that? It looks ridiculous, and the bulge defeats the point of having a thin phone. If you can't make the camera thinner, make the phone thicker, there is plenty of things y…

I dont really buy the issue with "there's no market" just look at the pc market: isnt there are market for convertibles, laptops, tablet+keyboard, different OS, all sorts of sizes... how different is the android phone ecosystem?

There is a market, it is just not lucrative enough for big players to take it.

There is however a company that caters to these niches: Unihertz

The have small phones, massive phones with huge batteries, rugged phones, phones with keyboards,...

From what I have seen, not great on the software side though, and they have entry-level specs, with prices to match. It is a Chinese company.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by tga_d »

gruez wrote: post #633
tga_d wrote: post #629

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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.

>People reproducibly build Signal all the time source? Is there a site that tracks this, or only shows up when someone raises an issue on github?

Pick a decently up-to-date fork of Signal on GitHub and look at its Actions. You can also just do it yourself if you'd like, the process is effectively just doing a build in a docker container and comparing the result.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by _def »

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…

Of course it's a matter of taste, personality, culture, etc.

That's why flame wars about anything don't make sense, whether it is about Operating Systems, browsers, gaming platforms, text editors, phones, cars, coffee, or whatever else you can come up with to arbitrarily argue about.

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Post by dwd »

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…

> 1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable.

That was the first thing I noticed. I assume the extra protuberance is to enable the insane zoom level but it goes full width for stability.

I have G85 Motorola - great phone (and primarily a phone/modem/camera) for the price, but it wobbles slightly.

Yes, I prefer Android, but have a M4 Air that goes everywhere with me to do actual work.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by gruez »

summm wrote: post #644
gruez wrote: post #567

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame the app developers, not google. They specifically added a backup/restore mode for device to device transfer, that bypasses backup blacklists[1]. However apps can still opt out by registering a backup agent, and returning no data. [1] https://developer.android.com/identity/data/testingbackup

Google actively avoided providing a local, secure, and seamless backup or even an interface for 3rd party backup services to make users more dependent on Google cloud services. Of course many app developers decided the Google cloud is too insecure, being not end-to-end encrypted. And Google enables them by not giving the users ways to override those stupid decisions. This wouldn't have happened on PCs, where you can…

>Of course many app developers decided the Google cloud is too insecure, being not end-to-end encrypted

But so far as I can tell D2D transfers don't hit the cloud?

>For a D2D transfer, the Backup Manager Service queries your app for backup data and passes it directly to the Backup Manager Service on the new device, which loads it in to your app.

https://developer.android.com/identity/data/testingbackup

If your app is opting out of backup by implementing a custom backup agent that returns no data, it's pretty clear you're against user backups, period.

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