Anyone with money is in bed with Donald.

Same thing in blue.

Everything in Android is an app tbh, even the launcher is a completely normal app.

Now to wait 10 months for samsung to update.

I’ve been an Android fanboy since 2009. Flashed roms and all that shit. I’ve always stated that Android is a better OS than iOS. Still do to an extent.

But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row or how fast Google immediately caved with erasure of DEI practices.

I’ve had issues with Google since Pichai took over, but this year was just too much for me here. Yeah Tim Cook is an ass. And Apple like everyone else threw Trump bribe money to not be targeted.

Yeah Apple runs Chinese sweat shops and their products are overpriced as fuck. But with the way things are at this time, Apple is the lesser of the two evils and I can’t go against my morals and support Google anymore.

Times like these make me wish Samsung went all in on Tizen and made it actually good.

I'm talking about an ecosystem and you listed one mod. I use graphene OS, it's great overall but I would like to have a choice. Maybe I don't want to use a Pixel phone? Maybe I want different set of features?

The best way would probably be buying used.

Small updates are fine but I find it a bit deceptive to increase the version number from 15 to 16 just for this

Sorry? Mix emojis?

I heard they are adding a desktop mode to android 16, curious if it would be possible to use phone and have a similar experience to an actual PC by connecting monitor and mouse/keyboard, well just using a browser, at the very least.

EDIT: found it

Future updates will also bring even more productivity enhancements to Android, allowing you to connect tablets and phones to an external display for an expanded desktop experience

I have hated Samsung for so long too though, they are just mini google. I want Android spun off

I connected android phone to external monitor using USB-C like a year ago. I'm not sure what's new here.

The launcher is, but not everything new in Android 16 could be just an app. The new desktop mode, for example likely requires much deeper integration with the OS.

Poor Seang Chau. They wrote this blog post in a total of three paragraphs, but Google was still like "WOULD YOU LIKE AN AI SUMMARY?" at the top.

Literally took me about 45 seconds to read all of the features, but Google is over here burning down another rainforest to process an AI summary of a three paragraph blog post with three pictures.

Was it a Samsung phone? They've had Dex for some time but it was a Samsung specific feature as far as I know.

Capitalisms loyalty is to capitalism, not a political party. You talk as if Apple isn't doing the same thing.

I mean yeah, you're right about the desktop mode, but 90% of new user facing features are going to be in one app or another generally.

Technically the desktop mode itself might also be an app, though a window manager or desktop environment isn't something we conventionally think of as an app.

No idea when I'll get to touch a new enough Android to play with it. My old Oneplus is on shaky custom rom support and my daily driver is an iPhone (which will likely get much longer software support and is newer to begin with)

fanboy

See, that was your first problem. This isn't team sports.

But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row

Did you not see Tim Cook in the same section?

If you really want to increase your privacy, you're gonna need to use a Pixel device loaded with a custom ROM such as Graphene OS or Calyx OS. Or none at all.

I have both. One for work. Use both everyday.

Same here, personal Pixel + work-issued iPhone . I use Linux ^btw^ and Android for the most part, but my wife has used almost exclusively Apple devices since college; in addition to her iPhone 16PM, she also has a Macbook (A1706 lol) and an 27" Retina iMac (last Intel model).

Safe to say I'm very familiar with Apple's ecosystem and user interfaces.

Which brings me to my point: every time I come into these threads, I can always tell who's only ever used one and not the other. They aren't the same, they both have bugs, and both suck up your data in stock form.