Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by pdimitar on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:43AM
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With Android, it's always "maybe next year", man. One gets tired of it.
You're pointing me at apps. But I keep hearing Nexus/Pixel folk praise "the pure experience". Something doesn't add up. ;)
And yes iPhone is far from flawless, I completely agree. But I'll take improved privacy and better battery life.
Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by viraptor on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:10PM
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> You're pointing me at apps. But I keep hearing Nexus/Pixel folk praise "the pure experience". Something doesn't add up.
Yes, you're bringing up "Nexus/Pixel folk" like some kind of homogenous group thinking of the same ideas and think I belong to it. Neither one is true - you're projecting your ideas.
Bandwidth is not latency. If you're in APAC, the only thing that will help you is if Google opens a mirror of play store nearby. (Unless it's software latency and everybody gets the same behaviour)
> Still no native themes.
Version 8 opened some new possibilities over adb. Hopefully fully accessible by v.9.
> if you want to decrease media volume, most of the time you end up decreasing phone call volume
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomwandroi...
> I use my smartphone on average 2.5 hours a day and holy shit, that's ~17000 ad/tracker requests blocked a day!
If you think that's os dependent - it's not.
I get that there are various issues people spot and they can be annoying. But a lot of that is familiarity with the system. Use iPhone for a few months and you'll find a lot of issues as well - it's not like it's flawless.