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Only the EU can save Android in the US now (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TL;DR: Apple dominates the US smartphone market, but EU regulations may offer Android a chance for resurgence by enforcing messaging interoperability and standardizing hardware features.

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is so funny for someone from Europe. Nobody I know cares what phone you have.

And everyone is using chat apps, mostly WhatsApp or signal, so everybody has the same great chatting experience.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Said like someone who can't afford an iPhone...

Just kidding, I use Samsung myself. It's crazy how easy it is to brainwash Americans into worshiping their corporate gods. Couple of good ads and they will die for their brand or choice.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My wife was bullied into getting an iPhone because of her colleagues, and they were buy one get one free, so now I have one too.

It’s a phone, I’m happy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

buy one get one free

Still got scammed, arguably lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

People get so hostile over such things. I have an iPhone for business. I have a Pixel for my personal use. They're alright. It depends on what you need. Still a smartphone enthusiast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ugh, sounds like some of my coworkers and MacBooks. Then you discover that MacBooks are seriously crippled compared to the Linux machine you were using and you get told one of:

  1. "What do you mean by $feature? I've never heard of that."
  2. "Why would you want to do that?"
  3. Run a badly performing Linux VM in a janky hypervisor to do that
  4. Pay $10 for this little 3rd party app to fix the problem

Throw in some serious RSI pain from that tire fire of a keyboard and yeah, I have no idea why I switched.

Edit: Work machine. No way I'd pay for Apple with my own money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm stuck working on a MacBook too and it's horrendous. I plug it into a monitor and use a good keyboard, but it'll never be useful as a portable computer with that garbage keyboard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using more than one monitor was the first "Why would you want to do that?" moment. Window management on Macs is awful but adding screens makes it way worse. Coming from i3 and sway, with rich hotkeys and fast, straightforward window manipulation, it felt like someone forgot to finish writing the OS. It seems most people use only the laptop screen or have a single external monitor as an auxiliary? They just genuinely didn't know why or how you use multiple monitors.

Tiling in macOS can be polyfilled with apps but there are tons of edge cases where it fails and the app's hotkeys don't flow well from the a handful of native keys, so it feels disjoint and bodged together. Also, if you "bump" a window, it'll stay dislodged because it's a poor mimicry of the real thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are these edge cases you are talking about? I been using Rectangle for many years and have no issues with multi-monitor setup. My company with over 2000+ devs use this app without any issues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Amethyst. Focusing on empty workspaces makes everything stop working. Certain window types (dialog popups, arguably that app shouldn't be using popups) are "invisible" to it. System preferences is untouchable (fair) and shows up under all other active windows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Americans are all about status symbols and knowing names. Runs in our eagle screeching capitalist blood.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's rough in the US. Most iPhone users will insist that iMessage is better and refuse to use anything else, and then whine when an android user is in a group chat and none of the features work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I have several group chats with both android & iPhone users. No one complains. The only place I hear about people complaining is the Internet, never anyone in the wild.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. Everybody and their grandma in Spain (at least) is using WhatsApp.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. Based EU citizens genuinely carrying the US on this issue, and we are looking forward to removable batteries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some modern phones still have removable batteries,, like my Motorola e5 play, its quite useful if the phone locks up bad, I can pop the battery out to restart it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try to use something that's something other than iOS or Android with Google services.

(I'm daily driving deGoogled Android, I can live, but just can get sick of all the pressure around world is taking on not having Google Play Store)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah same here

UK. I'll get the odd joke from an iPhone user but we all use WhatsApp and no one really cares.