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  • What size?

    Galaxy Tab A series are budget tablets that can do the job. If you want more powerful and bigger you can go with the S7/8 FE series. S6 lite is another option but it's running out of Android updates.

  • This tells me Nothing really doesn't understand the human nature behind the whole "blue bubble / green bubble" deal - it's stupid, don't get me wrong, but it's about status and exclusivity.

    Trying to "fake it" stinks of desperation and will just bring the user more ridicule. Just embrace the green bubble and move on.

  • I'm kinda surprised another company hasn't made something to legit compete with iMessage yet

    WhatsApp, FB Messager, Telegram? RCS is also a legitimate competitor.

    The blocker isn't the tech, it's Apple's control of the ecosystem and iMessage's integration to SMS on iOS / macOS. I'd imagine if Apple provides an option for user to "switch default SMS app" to a 3rd party one, there'd be no reason why any one of the above wouldn't see a huge uplift.

    By the way, the iMessage domination thing only really applies to North America. Rest of the world lives and breathes WhatsApp, WeChat, FB Messager etc.

  • Saving is optional - you don't have to save a photo to be able to browse it. And yes, browsing it will take some storage space as well since the app has to download, cache and render the image somehow but that's true for any device and just the way it works.

  • As a distinction AOSP vs Android is as important as Chromium vs Chrome. It is much more than semantics, it is literally the difference between an open-source project vs not.

    Fact is if you present the de-Googled AOSP to regular users, they'd think it's a broken experience without all the Google apps and services that people come to expect - Maps, Mail, Calendar etc. Drivers and device specifics firmware are also a big part of the foundational Android user experience. So to call Android = AOSP = open source is a mass simplification and definitely hand-waving away the reality of how each system operates and the whole point of open source projects.

  • If so much of the core Android experience is proprietary-dependent, can you really say Android itself is FOSS? Might as well call the non-proprietary, open-source parts something else... Like... Android Open Source Project (AOSP)?