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Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by thewebguyd »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #727
thewebguyd wrote: post #428

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Apple is the only one that offers actual E2EE with advanced data protection for all iCloud services. Without it, yes, Apple can see your data. With it on, they can't. The key is stored on device, encrypted with your device pin/passcode and covers iCloud backup, including messages, drive, photos, notes, reminders, bookmarks, shortcuts, voice memos, wallet, passwords, health data, journal, home, maps, etc. The only thi…

Even Google also gives actual E2EE by default for Android backups. Same with Samsung. Others have mentioned that Proton and others do this for services that Apple won't. https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/bac...

But not for photos, arguably one of the more important things to a lot of people to be E2EE, and not everyone wants to host their own Immich instance, or do things manually. iCloud offers E2EE photo back up and sync and native apps for it, it's a huge selling point that Google could just as easily offer but willingly choose not to.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by dxxmxnd »

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 use an iPhone because Apple is more focused on privacy, and I don’t really need that many features on my phone.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by izacus »

abraxas wrote: post #499
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…

Wobble or no wobble, I really want the camera tumours to disappear. Make the phones thicker or make the cameras more slender. Don't make these ugly protrusions. Those phones are 2cm thick anyway you're not fooling anyone with "thinness" when they still have those massive hunchbacks.

Google sells you such a phone. It's called Pixel 9a.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by makeitdouble »

ars wrote: post #726
makeitdouble wrote: post #608

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> solvable with a case The iphone 16's camera bump is 3.5mm. Short of making your own case that makes the bump a Pixel like bar, that wont be solved by just sticking a case. On photos, it is indeed a very personal topic to many. In particular someone taking dozens of random pictures everyday won't have the same use case as someone being a lot more deliberate for each picture for instance. A one size fjts all approach…

> The iphone 16's camera bump is 3.5mm. Why even have a bump? Make the phone thicker by exactly that amount and increase the battery. Then the phone is flat and has a better battery life. Are there uses who actually prefer a bump?

> Are there users who actually prefer a bump?

Speaking for myself, I'm fine with it on Pixel phones.

I'd be happy with more battery and no bump if:

- phone makers gave up on the glass backs and metal, and made the body plastic (no more "premium" feel for the sake of it, I don't want heavy and fragile materials)

- the physical durability was balanced with the additional weight: dropping the phone the wrong angle shouldn't mean a guaranteed cracked screen.

The current Pixel9a would be near perfect balance for me, if they gave it better cameras and internals instead of making it a budget phone.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by Krasnol »

Fuzzwah wrote: post #471

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 someone who had to use Samsung for 2 years at work:

I don't care about most of those decorative things you list there, it just made me mad that the phone was cluttered with Samsungs Apps. This replacing of perfectly working things like Settings was almost as annoying as the constant push for me to get just another account...this time with Samsung.

No please no...I don't see why I should give away space I've paid for to Samsung so they can spam me with their crap I don't need.

Never going back.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by 4diii »

thewebguyd wrote: post #349
highwaylights wrote: post #292

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> barely tolerate macOS I guess it depends what you’re comparing it to but macOS is (for me) the best of a bad bunch of compromises. POSIX with app boundaries that are (mostly) respected, if not particularly granular. There’s nothing I really hate about the platform save for homebrew and being walled in to the ecosystem. I actually love modern Linux with Gnome, and it has all the parts these days to be a great deskto…

> best of a bad bunch of compromises That's exactly why I don't particularly care for it, but still use it. My first choice would be Linux + a tiling WM. I used DWM for years before Apple Silicon, and have been on mac ever since the M1. These new machines are so nice that I can't go back to anything else now, whether I hate the software or not. But macOS is just baffling. There's POSIX underneath, and it's mostly rel…

Definitely agree about those nice touches. Just a few thoughts from my experience as of late.

- Window management wise the new tiling controls/keyboard shortcuts added last year have replaced third party tools for me. It's not as customisable as rectangle or moom but it covers halves and quarters which is mostly all I need. Additionally the "arrange" feature is nice letting you automatically tile N most recently used windows in a given layout.

- For window rules you can right click on an app in the dock and under options assign it to the current workspace and it should reopen there.

- 3rd party software like BetterTouchTool can "throw" windows to other spaces. But it did feel a bit hacky from memory (small but perceptible lag)

- The new spotlight features coming this year look quite promising for keyboard driven workflows.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by porridgeraisin »

rossjudson wrote: post #692
porridgeraisin wrote: post #360

After trying out 6000/7000mah phones, I'm never ever using any phone with a smaller battery. Especially not the 3580mah or whatever pixel phones. I like pixel otherwise, but it's just impossible to revert back to a smaller battery once you've experienced the truly multi-day -- even for a unhealthy screen user like me -- battery life.

Pixel 10 has around 5000mah batteries. Sadly that does not meet your 6000mah requirement. Everybody makes choices ;)

Yeah. I can't wait for a "flagship" phone with 6000+mah. Provided it's not one with bloatware (xiaomi et. al) I would buy it immediately.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by jama211 »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #311
jama211 wrote: post #241

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For pictures but not for video, the stabilisation is better on iOS typically

Stabilization is about to all become post processing AI based and if we know there is only thing Apple sucks at now a days it's software.

There’s huge value in having proper optical stabilisation, even if you’re using AI better input will still equal better output.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by jama211 »

ThatPlayer wrote: post #513
jama211 wrote: post #264

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I’m an iphone user and I’ve always used Dropbox and google photos as my general backup mediums.

Isn't that photo specific backup rather than general backups? Last I tried, Dropbox on iPhone cannot backup any files owned by other apps automatically. You'd have to export it manually to Dropbox. Edit; It looks like this is possible on iOS for apps to access other app's file sandboxes with a somewhat recent iOS update. MobiusSync (Syncthing client for iOS) has beta support for it. But I see no mention of Dropbox ad…

It’s true that I have some app data being stored in iCloud, but it is VERY within the free tier space limit. But depends on the app, many apps support Dropbox themselves and I store the data in Dropbox for those.
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