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Cybernetic Vermin posted:tbf it'd be hard even for google to do worse than qualcomm.
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i can imagine this being useful for them in terms of being used to greater and lesser extent not just in phones but whatever else dumb home products they make. i am skeptical about how different it's actually going to be vis a vis exynos but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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If you don’t have to put up with qualcomm lying to you about bugs and restricting your ability to debug or support the hardware, that’s already a win. Samsung can make pretty good chips if you know how to manage them and validate the work. google does not know how to do that.
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Apr 4, 2021 19:51
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but you see google must follow apple's lead despite their completely different market positions because
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:but you see google must follow apple's lead despite their completely different market positions because because they're the new microsoft except with a shorter attention span
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The Management posted:If you don’t have to put up with qualcomm lying to you about bugs and restricting your ability to debug or support the hardware, that’s already a win. the funny thing of course is that they actually do still have to put up with all that. what are you going to do, use a huawei radio?
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in the words of the christ in this easter season, It Is Finished: LG To Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwidequote:SEOUL, April 5, 2021 — LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier today.
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quote:will enable the company to focus... electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services. stebe haunt them with the 2x2 grid
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/google-oracle-supreme-court-ruling-java-android-apiquote:In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) code when building Android. wrap it up oraclealiures
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   the sensor cluster was getting a little absurd, so we put a screen on it for good measure
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Apr 6, 2021 13:35
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in upsides it will now actually not wobble when flat on a table, and promises a future where the sensor cluster is the entire back and everything is good again.
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Apr 6, 2021 14:07
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lol just make the phone a little thicker jesus christ
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:lol just make the phone a little thicker jesus christ
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the free market will fix that problem by inventing giant charger-cases with big batteries and flat backs
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lol now I'm imagining an absolute hell future where the irregular back shape of the phone is keyed to specific wireless chargers so you have to buy a new one for each phone
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that sort of poo poo doesn't bother me. i'd still love a secondary phone with android (strictly by necessity since there'd be no other os for it) that has one of sony's phatty 1-inch sensors on it. basically an rx100 that can browse the web, though in the interest of thinning it out i'd be fine with a prime lens
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mediaphage posted:that sort of poo poo doesn't bother me. i'd still love a secondary phone with android (strictly by necessity since there'd be no other os for it) that has one of sony's phatty 1-inch sensors on it. basically an rx100 that can browse the web, though in the interest of thinning it out i'd be fine with a prime lens the closest you'll get to that is those weird clip-on deals they did a few years back  the front element of a lens typically needs to be at least the size of the senor area away from it, just buy a rx100 or a ricoh gr and keep them in your pocket
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qirex posted:the closest you'll get to that is those weird clip-on deals they did a few years back i actually have one of each, the first revamped gr and the first rx100. i really liked the idea of those floating units, but they were just too slow in practice in terms of pairing and getting the screen on and such. i'd want something that managed to have the speed of the camera system with a nice big display and generalized smart features. anyway there are rumours floating about their new imx800 being a so-called 1-inch sensor. i'm not expecting the performance of either of those other cameras, esp the gr, since the lenses will no way be as good, but it should be interesting nonetheless. would be cool if their upcoming xperia launch had it.
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lmao lenovos new "gaming" phone loving big rear end cooling fan on the back to cool it down despite i'm sure offering worse perf than the last several iphones
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infernal machines posted:
nice. cant wait to back talk on that baby
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quote:Google is now informing Fi users who receive text messages through Hangouts that messages sent to them may have gone missing between March 31st and April 5th. The company said there was a service “interruption” that impacted “a small number of people.” Google says it has now resolved the issue and is sending through the delayed messages. Missing messages should appear in Hangouts by the end of today, April 7th.
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a grey goo scenario where the entirety of earth’s resources are consumed by rogue google ai creating ever increasing numbers of incompatible text messaging clients
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an update on chrome/chromium-based browsers/apps broke physical media controls in youtube music (and youtube?) the chaser: 
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crepeface posted:an update on chrome/chromium-based browsers/apps broke physical media controls in youtube music (and youtube?) if it was later revealed that youtube music was a google experiment just to see how much poo poo they could shovel on their most gullible users id absolutely believe it the shuffle button did not work when casting until like last week. the repeat button still doesnt work. both buttons have always been there
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it’s an experiment in seeing how many bonuses and promotions they could rack up by shipping a new thing rather than maintaining the old thing. they don’t give a drat about the users.
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The Management posted:it’s an experiment in seeing how many bonuses and promotions they could rack up by shipping a new thing rather than maintaining the old thing. they don’t give a drat about the users. i understand thats their thing but youd think the replacement new thing would need to be nominally functional to qualify. not necessarily good and obviously certainly not better than the thing its replacing but at least functional i will say if im being honest that i respect someone getting a bonus and promotion by making music service incapable of playing music more than someone doing the same by making yet another functional chat service. theres at least some valor in commitment strictly to the grift
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I have to assume the new google pay including a messenger app was done by someone in on the joke
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infernal machines posted:
sound by hardon kardon by dre
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samsung owns harman so they're paying one of their biggest competitors for a logo
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infernal machines posted:
iphone hardware dev: what today's javascript heavy mobile apps need is a processor that balances good single core performance without draining the battery android hardware dev: MORE CLOCKS
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both devs: MORE CAMERAS
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99 big camera bumps causing my phone to wobble
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anyone mentioned how google moved the menu shortcut in the play store app from the top left corner, where it has been for maybe a decade, to the top right corner? i cannot fathom why they have done this. they know it's confused the poo poo outta people because they put pop-up notifications in the app advising that it's moved.
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Designers gonna design
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Pile Of Garbage posted:anyone mentioned how google moved the menu shortcut in the play store app from the top left corner, where it has been for maybe a decade, to the top right corner? i cannot fathom why they have done this. they know it's confused the poo poo outta people because they put pop-up notifications in the app advising that it's moved. i wonder if this is in response to other trends; ime it seems like most apps lately have been putting it in the upper right. which i hate but mostly just because i’m a lefty googles biggest ui complaint for me is the create new email button in the web gmail client. i have to think and search for it every loving time
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Pile Of Garbage posted:anyone mentioned how google moved the menu shortcut in the play store app from the top left corner, where it has been for maybe a decade, to the top right corner? i cannot fathom why they have done this. they know it's confused the poo poo outta people because they put pop-up notifications in the app advising that it's moved. I think it's to provide a unified button to provide a menu for app specific stuff and switch between accounts instead of two different buttons. Which means that if people don't complain too much, then we could see a similar change to gmail. On the one hand, I can see how it helps to have a single button to provide a menu... so that it is not confusing to new users or aging users. But constantly changing interfaces is a sore point for those people that have to train coworkers, friends, and family. They should have kept the menu on the upper left, in my opinion.
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those sorts of ui changes are worthwhile imo despite some growing pains but only if they’re actually stable in their new positions because the long-term impact is a net win but lol google
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Pile Of Garbage posted:anyone mentioned how google moved the menu shortcut in the play store app from the top left corner, where it has been for maybe a decade, to the top right corner? i cannot fathom why they have done this. they know it's confused the poo poo outta people because they put pop-up notifications in the app advising that it's moved. this guy finally left the android design team 
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Pile Of Garbage posted:anyone mentioned how google moved the menu shortcut in the play store app from the top left corner, where it has been for maybe a decade, to the top right corner? i cannot fathom why they have done this. they know it's confused the poo poo outta people because they put pop-up notifications in the app advising that it's moved. one its just change for changes sake. two is that side menus are discouraged because they conflict with gesture navigation (though googles never did because you couldnt grab them from the edge anyway). three is that theyre trying (and failing) to unify everything under that since the maps refresh sb hermit is correct in that the idea is obviously one fewer place to look for poo poo but on the other hand some apps lean heavily on the side menu for navigation (like gmail) and theres not really a good one size fits all approach to ui design
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i just had a look at some other google apps and everyone who said that it was for a unified UI dealio is correct. in fact it looks like they're tryna make the entire top 1/8 of every app into a kind of search bar (like even for apps that in no way need one it still has a thing that looks like one) with the "your profile pic/main menu" thing on the top-right. except for the google calendar app, that hasn't been touched and i think it's because they don't know how.
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