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Meanwhile, I'm getting pushed away from iOS when I can't customise basic things and the Phone app (you know, the main use of a phone) takes 30s to open, even after restores.
>I can't customise basic things and the Phone app (you know, the main use of a phone) takes 30s to open I can't even remember the last time I used the actual voice calling function on my phone. It's probably been a couple of years now.
I have never been less excited for a phone. Maybe it's the One Plus 12 I'm holding, but this is a hard pass by me. All I want is a flagship chip, Esim support and a headphone jack. But since earbuds are almost all profit we won't see jacks coming back.
Get Apple’s USB-C to 3.5mm adapter. It has a very good DAC for its price.
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An example I can think of is when you're listening to a podcast or music that has been recorded on low volume. Without a volume mixer you're forced to increase the general volume, resulting in overly 'loud' sound notifications from other apps.
Media volume and notification volume have their own sliders
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I think the internet has become much more toxic these last few years. I see a lot of resentment and projection in people’s comments. And most of the time the ,comments are useless and don’t represent the general consumer/citizen opinion. This is specially true for anonymous profiles
We all know negative content drives more engagement, see: Facebook. But I've also noticed this trend and for me it makes sense seeing as most of the content on the internet nowadays is negative content. Social media is used to belittle and criticize other people/ideas, the news has never been positive, we've passed the stage where content creators that are positive about products are seen as trustworthy, because an o…
Mental health is notoriously declining and I myself feel the difference when there are days where I don’t touch social media.
I also found that some social media affect me more than others, namely X.
Before the acquisition I remember feeling like I was under an authoritarian regime censoring everything and that made me feel bitter.
After Elon there were short periods where there were no bots, and the algo was actually adapting to me, I didn’t feel bad using it.
But right now its so toxic and full of fear mongering posts, making it unbearable.
I hope society figures this out quickly because AI is only quickening the decline.
Google really needs to improve the core offering of what a phone is supposed to provide instead of using half baked AI as a selling point. I have been using Pixel 7 for almost the past 2 years. But the amount of basic core issues are crazy. Recently,since the July update, every place where the phone cannot catch network signal, it shutdowns. And with the update, somehow i feel it cannot catch network signal as strong…
My 2 year old Pixel 7 is working great, I've experienced none of these problems. That's frustrating.
I have negative desire to get a phone billing itself around AI and LLM features. I turn off every AI assistant feature on my existing devices, I actively don't want a phone that ties Gemini and AI photoshop even tighter into it. If Google wanted to actually improve their phones they would add basic software functionality they're still missing instead like, say, a per-app volume mixer that half the 3rd party Android p…
Why do you don't like it?
And there are other use cases like running your own LLM offline or using it with home assistant.
I have negative desire to get a phone billing itself around AI and LLM features. I turn off every AI assistant feature on my existing devices, I actively don't want a phone that ties Gemini and AI photoshop even tighter into it. If Google wanted to actually improve their phones they would add basic software functionality they're still missing instead like, say, a per-app volume mixer that half the 3rd party Android p…
… they would enable swapping button order.
… they would remove gestures.
… they would improve OS stability.
… they would add a hardware do not disturb switch.
… they would add hardware camera and microphone switches.
… they would add a headphone jack.
Their phones are still preferable to iPhones, because at least with a Pixel one owns one’s own phone.
I may switch this time since they're finally offering trade-in offers here in Ireland. I like my Pixel 6, but wanted a better camera for a while (to be clear, the Pixel 6 camera is really good, especially considering the price the phone was, but I still miss things like e.g. better optical zoom), so I may get a Pixel 9 Pro. BTW, for those talking about issues: I bought my Pixel 6 at release, and yes, I had some stran…
Curious that you say this, because I had a 6 Pro and while all the rest was amazing, what ended up making me hate the phone was the battery. My experience in that respect was just the opposite of yours: just barely OK at the beginning, and quick degradation in spite of the adaptive battery. In 2 years it wouldn't even make it to 3 PM in days of heavy usage. Definitely much worse than the batteries in my friends' iPho…
How is generally the signal in your region? Because here in Dublin it is generally pretty good, being in 5G most of the time and generally with high speeds. And I think signal is the most important thing in Pixel phones, because of their bad Exynos modem. So if your overall signal is bad I can see the battery draining faster and your experience being much worse than mine.
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I wish we had more than two phone giants. This is aggravating. Unfortunately due to their market dominance and muddling of (hardware, OS, software distribution, and platform ecosystem), it's almost impossible to disentangle. It'd be amazing if the DOJ made these companies only offer one slice of those four things. There would be so much competition and a wild variety of new things being tried.
> Unfortunately due to their market dominance and muddling of (hardware, OS, software distribution, and platform ecosystem), it's almost impossible to disentangle. I think it is more complicated, and nuanced, than this. I have a theory that the world can only support a maximum of 2 consumer computing platforms at a time, due to the cost of writing and porting software. Therefore causing a natural tendency towards eit…
Any market that has an extremely high barrier of entry will and ends up only supporting one or two company. ASML and TSMC being a prime example.