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No, and there was a whole lot of negative press/safety concerns due to letting these easy to use trackers out in the wild.

Bluetooth was always insanely reliable for me for file transfers even on phones and PCs that were a decade apart in manufacturing date. It was slow, but for a lot of things that was fine, and it was the obly way to get data from some really old phones.

The obly aspect they are consistently ahead is single thread performance compared to Snaodragon. GPU has been behind for a few gens.

iPhones on average don't last 3 times as much ib people's hands as Android phones that cost 66% as much. Better resale value is fair, but I am contesting that 2N figure strongly.

> So not the display nor the keyboard, the parts that most commonly need to be replaced.

I'm sorry but the most common part by far is the battery and maybe the SSD followed by RAM. The last 2 are usually upgrades, not repairs. I have done a decent number of WiFi card swaps as well, to get rid of unreliable Realtek and MTK cards. I have never had to do a screen or kb swap for any laptop in my family or friend group. Keep in mind this is all based on like 15-20 laptops I had come across in the last few years.

Bank would probably prefer if they could lock that websi5e down as well.

With an ISO install, only 1.2 is required for Win11. TPM2 ia inly required to get the update offer from 10.

To be fair there are a few metrics where CRTs smash any LCD, mostly response time related, but OLED and MicroLED can bridge that gap...

We are working on setting up Home Assistant to react to when we are home or not where I live. We do this based on mac adresses connected to wifi, and this is something that would not be possible without a computer in everything.

I can swipe to go back on either side on Android, while on iPhones the 2 options is a swipe from the left or a button ON THE TOP LEFT OF THE SCREEN usually. With my right hand, even going back one page in the settings app is a chore on small iPhones, while being comfortable on even the largest Android phones. Who thought this was a good idea? So much of the common requires uncomfortable gestures / button presses.

How are web apps impossible to install?

My best guess is probably goint to be more than 1% in markets where SMS is commonly used. Not by much, but more than 1%. Maybe 2-3% tops.

It is more a security nightmare than an environmental one.

I have no idea what MS will do when 20% of online computers no longer recieve security patches, but most people won't throw out unsupported machines.

What is also interesting is that somehow this is a giant outrage (6-7-8 years of support, a few more if you consider that for a new 11 install the reqs are not as strict), but Apple has been doing this for basically the last 10 years for Macs more or less.

Look up some alternative SMS clients on the Play Store and you will see there is a market for it. People on forums have been also complaining about there being no way to do this with RCS.

Look up some alternative SMS clients on the Play Store and you will see there is a market for it. People on forums have been also complaining about there being no way to do this with RCS.

> The yt-dlp (and all alternative YouTube clients) are accessing open endpoints into YouTube

Kind of, but I can't completely agree to this. There is circumvention work that went into these projects. Youtube has public, but "protected" endpoints, not exactly just open video streams.

> If yt-dlp was charging money or whining to regulators about YouTube's actions around their own service I'd feel differently towards them.

So your main issue is not Beeper Mini, but the surrounding situation and "activism" they are attempting to do? Based on your SSH comment it seemed like your main issue was unauthorized access.

> Beeper has to not just reverse engineer the iMessage protocol but also spoof their client identity.

If this is the main issue, then I think Aurora Store or microG are better exemples of currently existing similar apps. Revanced (and other unofficial yt clients that offer sign-in) I think should also qualify for this, and reddit clients with hacked in private API keys.

Do you have the same opinion about yt-dlp and ad free patches of common android apps?

The power of default apps is significant. Google got slapped for just that in the EU and there is a browser selection screen on setup.

Windows easily manages to feel slow, especially 11 did in the early days. I wonder how they do it...

1. Sure, completely get this.

2. This might be the case for most people, but I have heard people did or do switch obly due to iMessage. To be clear I don't think there would be a huge exodus, but it is a major lock-in feature in the US. Or at least that is what I have read.

Yeah if US iPhone users bothered to download any of them to message their friends better then it would matter. Unfortunately however...

I have seen comments from iMessage users, and it is also logical to assume that they would prefer if there was a way to chat with their Android friends via iMessage while having most of the nice features. An Android iMessage app would only be bad for Apple, since they will no longer be able retain and convert users based on them being or not being able to comfortably message their friends.

Other commonly emulated devices are not "general purpose" computers like phones, tablets and laptops. There is no need to emulate those systems generally since they can be ran in a VM (Linux, Android (mostly), and Windows).

I know your main point is comparing to consoles and that is probably fair to some extent, but still, I wanted to mention these.

The version distribution stats. Unfortunately I don't think there is one for security patches, but I am pretty sure an average android device is less secure. Though conceptually there are arguments you can make either way between a recent pixel and iPhone if you want to compare the best to the best.

Incorrect meme, almost no one is on whatsapp in Hungary for example. We use Messenger, Viber mainly and other social media apps that have a chat feature.

Play Store has a no questions asked refund window, but it is very small.

As a big root user, I don't lay the blame on Google. They don't prevent much on rooted devices, mostly just gpay, but they do provide the tools for other apps to do detection. Google devices are also the best for modding from a technical standpoint.

Is the standpoint "everything is spyware until proven otherwise"? I really dislike how commonly spyware is used, it really dilutes the word's meaning.

Galaxy phone not good for space travel.

Snapdragon can't breathe fire.

My samsung tablet (wifi) has an average idle drain of 0.3% per hour, meaning what you see in 2 days would take a week. On windows laptops hibernation can also fix idle drain, but that is a bit of a hack.

The 3ds is atrocious though, even with wifi off. With wifi it can't even last a day.