Madis

It is still possible to make 90% of that screen harder and keep only the crease as the weak point.

So how do you find actually private services?

As long as the brand new one is legally binding, why not. And it is at least in California.

Are there any checker apps to see which of user’s installed apps have this? Looking up “Play Integrity API” only finds the checkers for the phone itself…

They used to be? When?

Sure, if it is already private. But if it is not, then it gets copied to different instances and so if the original post gets removed, it is up to each instance to follow and when.

Frankly, decentralized networks make it even harder to take content down.

Play Store already does a weird thing to some niche apps where you have to have to click twice on an app to even see full details like screenshots. For example, look up the app “SecondScreen”.

Widget stacks and per-screen customization as well.

Another article blurring the lines of a skin and a launcher. I don’t care what your default launcher does, not gonna use it anyway. System-wide features, on the other hand…

What I don’t understand is do any of the OEMs giving this feature also combine it with passthrough power? So besides not charging the phone at 80%, it would keep it working using the wire instead of the battery.

Perhaps you could report it to Google Play for that?

But sideloading and OEM stores (Samsung, Huawei) have been available for years?

I don’t understand the second one “Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app”.

In real life you don’t see big supermarkets spread their flyers in competitors’ stores, how does that make sense digitally?

I’ve noticed that XDA still has the main threads and download links, even if more frequent communication happens elsewhere.

Having used custom ROMs for years, it can get tiring to fight with SafetyNet, find root backup apps that still work, dealing with bugs the developer may not be able to reproduce and, of course, even finding decent phones that have decent ROMs. I refuse to buy a Pixel until they have a decent SoC and price.

So for my next phone I’m currently considering an OEM that supports phones for long and has decent customization by default - Samsung. As I’ve never owned Samsung phones before, I don’t know whether I’ll like their OS, but so far it looks good enough.

So it took 4 major releases to make the quick settings reasonable again… I’m actually glad most other OEMs did not follow when Google did the change in 12.

every app wanted to have its own persistent notification

When? Which apps? I’ve been using Android since KitKat and I only remember persistent notifications by apps that needed them (to keep working, stay in memory).

That said, I agree that a permission would be nice, as I am skeptical of the use cases shown in the article mockups. I think it should stay an ongoing notification thing as anything else would indeed take more space.

But it would use less energy afterwards? At least that was claimed with the 4o model for example.

Yes, by default every Chromium browser is affected. It is just a matter of

• whether they want to extend it to the enterprise time (which Edge and Opera won’t do IIRC)
• whether they’d try to keep it working after enterprise time (maybe Brave and Vivaldi, but it could take a lot of effort)
• whether they even have an alternative place to download extensions from if CWS takes MV2 extensions down (Brave has some workaround for few extensions, not sure about others)

Maybe there will be some devs working on Ungoogled Chromium to keep the support, but they also have to think where users would even get the extensions from.