There's only one competitor, apple, and also, I don't think that firefox mobile is that good. It's better than chrome, and I'm using it, but I don't know why would a device with 12gb of ram, a high-res display, a processor that can run warzone can't run the normal version of firefox with a different ui. I think it just splits development, and I don't like how it's always behind in development, and how it lacks features.

Android 8.0.0 reporting in o7

I checked it a while ago, my phone turned seven this summer

kinda miss system-level darkmode, since many apps don't allow you to choose theme yourself anymore, but eh, what gives

yeah, its mostly all the garbage they bake into the stock roms.

remember laptops, where they were expected to need a reformat out of the box? same for phones but the process is much more complicated and locks you out of banking apps.

Damn is the S5 actually still usable with that OS? I loved that phone and still use it as an alarm clock (original batterie even).

shitty, fucking

A third one is being worked on silently (Linux Mobile), however that will most likely only be a niche choice for those who already ain't being caught and locked into Silicon Valleys "products". Due to its very nature there is no VC money involved and therefore no big fanfare planed, even when finished.

It's still very much a dev platform right now, even though the Pinephone is freely purchasable.

There gotta be a community for that out there somewhere.

Good for you, what brand is it?

I feel like the whole JVM stack is just kind of a lost cause. We've been throwing bigger hardware at it and optimizing it for decades, but the crappy iPhone my workplace gave me, still feels smoother in every way...

I don't know what are they optimizing it for, when I click on something, it still takes a year to load, the only difference I feel between my current phone and my first android is that this one has a much larger screen, and this one costs 10 times more. In my opinion, android has been going backwards since around 8.0

And with "AI" this will only get worse. How much disk space will "Recall" snatch for their keylogger again, about 32gb?

My samsung was working fine for 1-2 months, since then, it's just lagging and things. I tried resetting, sending it back to samsung to see if it has hardware problems, but it's still bad. Had a nokia and a huawei before that, and another samsung, I even had some off brands when I wasn't so financially good but since 2016-17 it feels to me like development has taken a turn backwards, they stopped adding new things, started taking away privileges from the user, and they are trying to hit the same performance with much stronger hardware. Also, twitter still takes 7 seconds to load, but now you can have a 200MP camera with that

Yup. I went to the dark side and bought an iPhone when my OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition died (RIP, prince of phones) and I’ve enjoyed it greatly. iOS has come a LONG way in the last decade or so.

Old oneplus gang! Dozens of us!

Dude probably has a ZTE or some shit like that.

I was gonna say, this sounds familiar.

Really though, some times it’s by design. I remember back when you could jailbreak your iPhone (effectively). Those were the days…so much cool shit you could do on an iPhone back then.

One of the things you could do though was change your animation speed. You know, just how fast it would do those little swoops and sweeps and things like that when opening apps or transitioning or whatever. It was a little thing, but I appreciated being able to change it, a lot. I used to set it at 0 so everything was as snappy as possible. No animations, just pop pop pop. Like in Windows 7 when you turn off all animations and effects. I would experiment though sometimes with new iOS versions on other devices as well as my own when they came out. Don’t want to be left behind and be susceptible to security risks, right?

It didn’t take me long to catch on that they would, little by little, extend the animations times slightly as they got closer to a new major version number release. I noticed that when you would upgrade, they would adjust the animation speed again with the major release, but instead of slowing it down, put it back to normal. They basically made it so that when you finally upgraded to the new (slightly buggy) major version, you felt it ran better and were happy you did so. It was all a trick, and you were being manipulated. It didn’t run better, it just seemed that way because they slowed down the previous version’s animations. Now, I know how Apple thinks and works. It’s both to make sure you’re on the latest version they can get you on as well as try to keep you thinking they are always improving things and be happy you upgraded. But, it’s just a bit disappointing to realize that they’re manipulating you in little ways like that to keep you on-board.

Not the first time Google or phone manufacturers have taken some cues from Apple’s practices in this area. It seems like time and time again we see some people like Android users and Linux enthusiasts complaining about Apple’s practices only to be dismayed that Google or their favorite phone manufacturer starts practicing the very same thing. The fact of the matter is, Apple did ALL the research. They don’t care about all us nerds who see what’s going on. We’re the minority. The majority are happily manipulated in this way, unknowingly. Why wouldn’t they follow suit? Apple is WILDLY successful.