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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by ulfw on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:45PM (#38028212)
If they were even semi-decent, people would use them. They don't as they aren't. Very simple market dynamics.
Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by fsflover on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:46PM (#38028217)
I'm using it as a daily driver. And it's getting better every month. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002089
Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by echelon on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:55PM (#38029260)
> Very simple market dynamics.

Distorted by an anti-competitive duopoly.

Separate hardware from software / platform.

Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by stale2002 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:13PM (#38032369)
Its not that those specific examples are good, holistically or not.

Instead, the argument is that there are some good features about them.

Those good features can be brought to the iPhone to make the iPhone better, even if the rest of the iPhone is better in certain ways.