Paradox

Doh. Forgot we were actually up to pixel 10 phones, and thought it was a new 10" tablet

Given how Google has treated every other tablet it’s ever made or endorsed, you’re a moron if you buy this

t. Owner of a Xoom and Nexus 10

Good riddance to bad spamware

Wonder how many things they shit up

I was surprised to find that an old Plex feature, controlling any one player from any other instance, such as playing on a laptop and controlling with a cell phone, no longer worked. My wife and I used that a lot when traveling, as plugging a laptop into a hotel TV with an HDMI cable is generally far more bullet proof than any streaming stick

Course sometimes we’d stay in an Airbnb, and they’d have a Roku or Apple TV, where we’d just sign into a Plex app and use it there. But that’s beyond the point

Did they perhaps confuse Tesla solar installs with the cars?

I wish more people would hold Sam Altman’s feet to the fire, hold him to some semblance of accountability. Because the man has made an entire career of failing upwards, from launching a short lived startup that imploded, to suddenly becoming president of ycombinator, to suddenly being worth billions of dollars, and literally paying people in the third world (with monopoly money, of course) for their eyeballs

Oh and there’s the whole thing where he might have molested his kid sister, which is always seemingly glossed over

Even Ed Zitron, who isn’t afraid to go after someone (see his articles about the guy who destroyed Google search) seems to handle Sam with kid gloves

But now who will donate pretend coats for the virtually needy?!

You’re a moron if you use this.

We seriously need a way to sandbox apps, where they cant see shit outside their sandbox

These smart watches are garbage. Even Apple watches have rather short lifetimes

My Garmin is going strong 5 years later, and I’ve got no incentive to upgrade

Honeycomb was a tablet only ui. Google ditched the more effective ux in a fit of unification, that I believe is significantly responsible for killing Android tablets

Time is a flat circle. I remember when honeycomb launched with a bottom navbar, only for Google to delete it later in favor of a (terrible) phone like gui

Can’t wait for them to never roll it out

Kagi generated key points:

• The new Find My Device network on Android was designed with a strong focus on user security and privacy.
• The network uses a crowdsourced approach to locate lost or misplaced devices and belongings, even when they are offline.
• The location data reported by participating Android devices is end-to-end encrypted, ensuring Google cannot access or use the location information.
• The network has “aggregation by default” as a safety feature, requiring multiple nearby devices to detect a Bluetooth tag before reporting its location to the owner.
• The network also has protections to avoid contributing location reports when near the user’s home address.
• Rate limiting and throttling are used to prevent malicious real-time tracking, while still allowing the network to be useful for finding lost items.
• The network is compliant with industry standards for unwanted tracking, triggering alerts on both Android and iOS devices.
• Users have full control over which of their devices participate in the network and how.
• The network design has undergone internal security testing and is part of Android’s vulnerability rewards program.
• Prioritizing user safety and privacy is an ongoing commitment as the team continues to improve the Find My Device protections.

Apple has done this many times before. Over even more frivolous patents (i.e. a glossy black rectangle)

They made their bed, now they have to lie in it

They should stick them on swappa. Kindles hold value fairly well, and they’re great gifts to kids, as they can often encourage reading

Pixel

After getting burnt by both the Google endorsed Xoom and the Google branded Nexus 10, I don’t trust them at all when it comes to tablets.

With both, Google released good products, and then proceeded to ruin them with abhorrent changes to the software. They made the Nexus 10 dump it’s tablet interface in favor of a big phone UI ffs.

Kagi summary:

• The Android Market (now Google Play Store) was launched in October 2008 with the T-Mobile G1 phone, helping establish app ecosystems on mobile.

• Before app stores, finding and downloading apps was difficult through various online stores and carrier stores with limited selection and updates.

• The Android Market centralized the app experience and discovery, giving access to a growing variety and number of apps in one place.

• Early app successes helped drive more users, phones, developers and apps in a reinforcing cycle that grew the app economy exponentially.

• Popular early apps filled gaps in Android’s capabilities in areas like weather, file management, flashlights as built-in features were still being developed.

• Later apps brought extra abilities beyond necessities, like music streaming, ebooks, games, social media and more.

• The article reminisces on the novelty of app stores and ecosystems in their early days compared to their ubiquitous presence today.

• Over 100,000 apps were available by mid-2010 and over 3.5 million apps today on Google Play.

• We now take app discovery, updates, and the overall app experience for granted due to how well app stores do their job.

• The article credits the Android Market and Apple App Store for establishing apps as the norm and changing our expectations of mobile.

Google Messages.

And yeah, I think it really has had that effect. Most people don’t know about it; I had to show my father how to set it up. They put a banner up on the app once when they introduce it, or when you first open Messages, but a ton of people just dismiss the banner and then don’t see it.

Versus apple who has a big show where they show off all the new shit they’re doing, and the press breathlessly covers it, trickling it down to the average consumer.

We do. It’s trash