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Re:US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In by zormino on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:43AM (#20722105)
Google has a nasty habit of making solid features/apps available for everyone, then building an in house device/service that can use said feature, then making that feature exclusive to their new service in an attempt to drive consumers to it. In the end they just piss people off and whatever they were trying to do fails.

The latest update to chrome on Android in the last few days removed support for 90/120hz devices. Now everyone who was enjoying a nice smooth chrome experience on the OnePlus 7 pro, Razer phone, etc. has a nice jarring switch to 60hz when they open chrome.

This happened at the exact same time as they announced the new pixel 4 would be a 90hz phone, with exclusive 'smooth display'. Bleh.

Re:US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In by WWLink on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:54AM (#20722947)
Have you tried the android version of firefox? I really dig it, especially because the desktop plugins still work in it. :D