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I have a google pixel 3a and it is very needs suiting and doesn't show ads in the core apps like phone, calendar, clock, etc. I had an iPhone 6S before (until I broke it) and the only things I miss are iMessage and my itunes library. Google maps shows ads, youtube shows ads, but I kinda assume they show ads in the iPhone version too.
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I also used to have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and wow that was a POS in terms of ads and bloatware. City ID would ask you to pay for a subscription after every phone call. Samsung and AT&T branded apps alongside the google ones... multiple video apps and music apps...
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Dec 15, 2020 22:08
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remember when verizon released some android thing that shipped with the default search engine as bing
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Dec 15, 2020 23:06
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lol why would you use google maps when there's an ad-free one built in
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Dec 16, 2020 15:51
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DoomTrainPhD posted:Google constantly produces hardware at the same price or a tiny bit cheaper than Apple with the hopes that people forget they aren’t Apple. Every time they fail to realize that their main products are free and nobody wants to pay premium pricing for a Google product. they probably should have spun off "pixel" as an "independent" hardware brand instead of being "google pixel". it's pretty hard to brand anything "google" as "premium" because 1) "google" is synonymous with "free product" and 2) google's entire brand identity is playschool primary color plastic toy aesthetic moving smart home products under the nest brand makes sense at least, but there's gotta be some marketing people in "regular" google steaming mad trying to get their brand onto products and not understanding why it's failing to move units
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Dec 16, 2020 16:11
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or just consistently stick with cheap colorful plastic while offering decent(ish) products. when they bought fitbit they should have just let their hardware team take over leadership on all google hardware.
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Dec 16, 2020 16:47
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today I tried to use google assistant to set a reminder and it wouldn't do anything except shade the bottom half of the screen. it wasn't until I tapped the "show me other things assistant can do for you" button would it work.
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Dec 17, 2020 11:35
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crepeface posted:today I tried to use google assistant to set a reminder and it wouldn't do anything except shade the bottom half of the screen. it wasn't until I tapped the "show me other things assistant can do for you" button would it work. android is catching up to ios
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Dec 17, 2020 15:15
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world class discoverability
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Dec 17, 2020 15:21
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i spent the last three months trying to figure out why my phone suddenly wasn't able to handle sms group texts any more, eventually concluding that it must be that everyone else in the group was using some sort of imessage feature my phone didn't support, so i gave up got sick of it finally and dug even more and turns out no, google updated their messages app and deleted the option to switch between sms and mms and it's locked on sms for some reason. i got a different texting app where this option exists and it works perfectly again. there are a bunch of posts about this problem with the google app and of course the helpful google product forums people's only response is "please try clearing the cache" it's astonishing how loving bad google is at literally everything
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Dec 17, 2020 22:16
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what's astonishing is that you're using an android phone despite very clearly knowing better
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Dec 17, 2020 22:29
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Dec 18, 2020 02:09
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it's conundrum that there's apparently some huge demand for "smart" home things but nobody can make a sustainable business out of it except for like philips and crestron [amazon doesn't count since it's a heavily subsidized part of their business]
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Dec 18, 2020 02:13
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FMguru posted:
i like that the comments on that article are all either cracking jokes about google killing products like blown roses or commiserating over moving all their services off of google platforms because they've just now, in tyool 2020, figured out that you can't trust google to keep anything running
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Dec 18, 2020 02:15
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qirex posted:it's conundrum that there's apparently some huge demand for "smart" home things but nobody can make a sustainable business out of it except for like philips and crestron [amazon doesn't count since it's a heavily subsidized part of their business] it's because nobody has made them super easy to use yet. philips is successful because it mostly just works, and it's not some one app trying to run your whole house: it's an app for lights, so it's easy to grok
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Dec 18, 2020 02:25
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there isnt any actual demand for iot stuff. its all dads buying poo poo they see on the news and then getting bored with it a few days after it arrives. its great for a bunch of initial purchases, but terrible for customer retention. there are only a handful of dedicated nerds who want to try to make it work and they're not enough to sustain a business
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Dec 18, 2020 02:31
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there is crestron/control4 stuff for rich folks which is a good business because installers pay full MSRP but it's not super high volume
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Dec 18, 2020 02:36
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yeah but they've been doing that since before the internet
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Dec 18, 2020 03:04
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mediaphage posted:it's because nobody has made them super easy to use yet. philips is successful because it mostly just works, and it's not some one app trying to run your whole house: it's an app for lights, so it's easy to grok the amazon home assistant thing also works pretty well with it. "alexa, turn the master bedroom lights on" is pretty handy. everything else has been trash
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Shaggar posted:there isnt any actual demand for iot stuff. its all dads buying poo poo they see on the news and then getting bored with it a few days after it arrives. its great for a bunch of initial purchases, but terrible for customer retention. eh, depends on the thing, i think. the hue stuff is popular. wireless outlets are pretty popular. i'm not sure what else i'd say is actually popular. smart doorbells like ring, maybe? smart speakers, i guess.
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Dec 18, 2020 03:18
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by now Google has burned every hardware partner that has worked with them. I have no idea why anyone would trust them in the future
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Dec 18, 2020 03:52
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Shaggar posted:there isnt any actual demand for iot stuff. its all dads buying poo poo they see on the news and then getting bored with it a few days after it arrives. its great for a bunch of initial purchases, but terrible for customer retention. swr
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qirex posted:it's conundrum that there's apparently some huge demand for "smart" home things but nobody can make a sustainable business out of it except for like philips and crestron [amazon doesn't count since it's a heavily subsidized part of their business] some goalpost-moving to it too, the ikea stuff probably makes money just fine, but as it amounts to being able to configure the blinds and lights to respond to the same button i don't think most people count it as very smart.
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Dec 18, 2020 13:44
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The Management posted:by now Google has burned every hardware partner that has worked with them. I have no idea why anyone would trust them in the future because apple doesn’t want to work with them and amazon will actively harm their business instead of getting bored and wandering away like google the alternative is building their own and that’s worse
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Dec 18, 2020 18:51
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The Management posted:by now Google has burned every hardware partner that has worked with them. I have no idea why anyone would trust them in the future it's pretty funny hearing how some big company has partnered with goog to do something or other and getting to be 100% confident that whatever idiot product they make will be dead and buried within two years at best and likely sooner
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Dec 18, 2020 19:10
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mediaphage posted:eh, depends on the thing, i think. the hue stuff is popular. wireless outlets are pretty popular. i'm not sure what else i'd say is actually popular. smart doorbells like ring, maybe? smart speakers, i guess. i wanted a normal wired motion sensor for some outdoor lights and noticed all the midrange philips bulbs are sold out so theyre probably gifted quite a bit to people. id also guess they recommend them a lot as an alexa accessory to push integration im sure the really terrible knockoff bulbs are sold out too. you can tell the cutoff in cost vs. adoption because the full range color bulbs are in stock everywhere realistically, half the use for them are what a motion sensor or dimmer switch, normal bulbs, and some wiring would do 3 decades ago, so im guessing the convenience is probably the motivator
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Dec 18, 2020 21:57
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Agile Vector posted:i wanted a normal wired motion sensor for some outdoor lights and noticed all the midrange philips bulbs are sold out so theyre probably gifted quite a bit to people. id also guess they recommend them a lot as an alexa accessory to push integration probably although i don’t see the problem with that. they’re also a great option for renters. i like them mostly for the colour tuning, gently caress cool lights at night. oranges and reds baybee
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Dec 18, 2020 22:30
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mediaphage posted:probably although i don’t see the problem with that. they’re also a great option for renters. oh im right there with you, which is why i was checking them. im a big fan of warm evening lighting and crisp daylight at the appropriate hours, especially after having cfl bulbs philips has nailed the market so well, its almost unfair. the only thing I'd like to see is a push for brighter light ranges, but otherwise they seem like the most capable smart lighting maker to keep it google, i tried to see if they ever made an attempt at smart lighting but, somehow, no? its a bit unbelievable they didnt try to buy and run into ruin a lighting company
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Dec 19, 2020 04:19
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Agile Vector posted:oh im right there with you, which is why i was checking them. im a big fan of warm evening lighting and crisp daylight at the appropriate hours, especially after having cfl bulbs yea i agree, it seems like right up the nest division's alley? it seems like the only thing that is a true nest product update vs a rebadge are the doorbell and security camera(s)?
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https://twitter.com/thetorpedodog/status/1340944840310329344
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wiki posted:android-based trash
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mediaphage posted:yea i agree, it seems like right up the nest division's alley? i thought nest was dead as a brand already
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Dec 21, 2020 15:53
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ahhahhhahahhhah lol
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:some goalpost-moving to it too, the ikea stuff probably makes money just fine, but as it amounts to being able to configure the blinds and lights to respond to the same button i don't think most people count it as very smart. I have the Sonos ikea speakers and they're pretty nice
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:ahhahhhahahhhah lol lm ao tbf, they've got a valuable market there. people with considerably more money than sense who clearly make poor purchasing decisions
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Dec 21, 2020 16:12
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The only excuse for that poo poo back in the day is that the phones were cheaper than iPhones. Fourteen hundred smackaroos to stare at ads while you pay for the bandwidth to serve them to you. What the gently caress lol
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Dec 21, 2020 16:15
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The only excuse for that poo poo back in the day is that the phones were cheaper than iPhones. Fourteen hundred smackaroos to stare at ads while you pay for the bandwidth to serve them to you. What the gently caress lol Anroid.
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Dec 21, 2020 16:17
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my wife uses google fi and when she texts me video mms's they come through the size of a postage stamp and you can't tell what the hell is going on. I assume this is something google is doing because it saves them a fraction of a penny
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Dec 21, 2020 16:24
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I've got a group chat with my brothers and the android users do the same thing, so it's across the board.
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lol trash phone os
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