Michal @ Michal @discuss.tchncs.de

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Initially i bought nexus/pixel phones for clean android experience and no bloat.

Staying with pixel mainly for camera quality and free storage on Google Photos.

Its not ideal, but I'm used to it. They never try to do something too gimmicky and it feels like phone made by Google will work best with the os made by google so my experience will be most consistent, but i haven't tried other phones in a while.

The ecosystem is open. The app isn't.

If the ecosystem is truly open, anyone can make an app for it and charge for it if they want.

Haha, haven't heart about that. Sounds ridiculous!

Cycling is environmentally friendly, but let's not equate world championship to cycling as transport. The event itself must have a lot carbon footprint. Still, weird choice of event to protest, but I can see them doing what they can to get the publicity they need.

Interrupting motorsports may give then more sympathy.

Except when they're used in court as evidence, then they're called "xzibits"

How do you know what code it contained? For all you know it could be a simple build flag that disables the ads the same way iap would

That doesn't sound like a benefit at all...

Force stop is not a state. It's an action, unless it's some feature I don't know about.

Apps don't have to actively listen to events. They can subscribe to broadcast and the OS will trigger the app whenever that occurs.

I hate it when they do it.

I was on a development end of this and managers always pushed for the ios and android apps to be identical. It always ended up being the ios being the main and android being the afterthought copy.

Whenever i see an android app trying to look like ios, it signals that the quality is lacking.

Not true, it links to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Inflation

It was a snarky comment and I replied in kind. Criticism is fine but I like Sync and don't go around putting down other apps. I just use the one I like and support the developer.

Use a different app, nobody's forcing you to use Sync.

You're free to use any app you want. Some people prefer free open-source apps, some people want to pay for a quality app. It's good to have a choice unlike with Reddit. I don't understand people complaining about having additional choice because they don't like it.

Same, already paid for year's subscription too. I used Sync for reddit and trust the developer to make a quality app.

I haven't seen any ads yet. Where are they

And is enabled by default!?

Doesn't even fill them all. Must be a compact truck. I'd still squeeze in with my car in front of him, across those two spots.

Is the critical letter "x"?