“Now buy our games running in an emulator from the online Switch store”

Same here. Not sure why but being told all my domains were being sold to squarespace really pushed me over as well.

Geez downvoted for an opinion.

Sony has good hardware but it does come with Facebook, OneDrive, LinkedIn, Call of Duty, and a few more. It absolutely has bloatware.

both google and Sony provide firmware blobs publicly, not sure about others.

Every device requires a maintainer, someone who builds Lineage specifically for that device.

On top of that most of these OEMs don’t provide device firmware drivers publicly (camera, modem, speakers, etc), so the maintainer has to either use a generic driver (which typically sucks), or reverse engineer something more suitable.

It’s just a time and effort thing. As with all open source projects it relies on the community to volunteer their time for the benefit of others.

Hangouts was already the iMessage competitor. Video, voice, high res photos and videos, etc with SMS fallback. But as usual google kills every good product they create.

For real, if google didn’t completely screw up messaging every single year it wouldn’t be as big of a deal.

Battery issues and overheating from the Tensor SoC, which we all know is based on the Exynos (which Samsung stopped using because it was so bad).

On the price:

Top spec models -

Samsung S23 Ultra 1 TB is $1619

iPhone 14 Pro Max 1 TB is $1599

Normal models-

Samsung S23 128 is $799

iPhone 14 128 is $799

How is the iPhone more expensive? At worst it’s the same price, and you get more than double the years of software support.

Top class enh?

Must be why the forums and communities are full of people asking about battery drain, reception issues, and software update bugs.

Also what iPhone you buying that’s $1200? You do know samsung has several devices that are more expensive than even the top tier iPhone, right?

iOS is a majority share, but not by much.

My opinion here might upset some fanboys:

Android is in a sad state right now with only a few big OEMs pushing into the market, and the fragmentation is what’s killing it. The average person doesn’t care about customizing or having a micro SD slot, they just want to text and browse TikTok - so they choose a phone that’s simple and works without headache for years.

On the android side you have really only Samsung, Motorola, and sorta google. Motorola covers a lot of the budget android market, but it’s cheap disposable phones. Samsung covers the whole range, but then you buy into the bloatware and duplicate apps. Then you have google sitting in the corner eating glue, consistently releasing phones with hot SoCs, bad reception, and botched software updates.

For the average person the iPhone makes complete sense as Apple only releases a few phones a year, and for a while now every single one has been relatively issue-free. Customers feel confident that the newest iPhone will be a similar experience, copy all their data over in 5 minutes, and work well for years to come.

So really I wouldn’t say it’s a case of “profitability”, moreso lacking compelling feature to draw in new customers, while continuing to bleed customers to the iPhone because the average person doesn’t want to be bothered with complicated features that aren’t consistent across android OEMs. We’ve seen a lot of Android OEMs leave the US market because of these reasons.

I’d say the 865 was the last “good” Qualcomm chip before the 8 gen 1 broke everything. It can be found in the Galaxy S/Note 20 generation.

Pretty much any soc made by samsung is hot and slow. The return to TSMC with the 8+ gen 1 we saw the thermal improvements.

There’s a LOT of medication apps already available, seems like a lot of work to create one from scratch, no?

This may be a really basic question, but the regular android clock app can set recurring alarms already right? What is the added value of using home assistant externally?

The bands are going to be region-specific. Some areas use some bands, others don’t. Just depends where you live and the nearby towers.

In the early days (2016 ish) Verizon had very limited LTE coverage, but now I haven’t had any issues traveling anymore with unsupported bands.

Everything works except wifi calling which Verizon only allows whitelisted IMEIs to do. VoLTE, visual voicemail, etc all work fine.

I’ve never tried mmWave 5G (no coverage where I live), but regular 5G works fine.

Can confirm here, am on Verizon and they 100% support fully-GSM devices assuming the LTE bands line up.

(I’ve had Oneplus 6T, 7T, and Sony Xperia 5 ii on Verizon, all of which are not CDMA compatible)

I’m not aware of any carriers in the US that still support CDMA. Verizon and Sprint were the big two, and neither supports CDMA anymore.