It’s useful for when it’s dying faster than usual and I need to find the culprit

Like when new people join, they know they’re in the right place

On the other hand though it is nice to have a common name. Like I’m in a group with the other parents of kids at my kid’s daycare. Sometimes you want the name to be common, sometimes you want it to be individual.

Honestly it’s kind of annoying. I want to name the chat after their relationship to me. Coming up with something that we all have in common with each other is a lot harder

Yeah I’ve been thinking about this. The group chat with my inlaws is called “PIL” for parents in law. I’ll have to come up with something else. But there are so many iterations of family groups chats. Parents in law, parents, siblings, siblings in law, and every combo thereof

That said I believe it will improve over time. It has to, in order to be useful.

That doesn’t mean it has to. Let me introduce you to dozens of other Google projects.

Thank you! I edited the original post. I’m running Lineage OS now!

Then why doesn’t Apple open up anything else? Think I want to buy a Apple Watch and connect it to my Android?

Huh, that’s weird. Are certain features behind a pay wall? I definitely don’t have a paid subscription and I’m using it right now to organize a trip. I use it like less than once a year for the last 5 years or so.

I assumed their business model was using their in-app money transfer feature and like taking a cut or hoping people forget to cash out or something. But you don’t even need to do that, you can sync Venmo or even mark transactions as paid in cash

Edit Oh, I see. I don’t think it’s required

I use splitwise with my friends but I did zero research and just joined because they did. It works well and is super flexible when it comes to splitting expenses. I doubt it’s Foss.

• Fine/ free positioning of home screen apps and widgets

This sounds cool

Why did you have to wait for your phone to ask you?

Excellent info. My wife like to hang on to her phones as long as possible. I think you just made the decision for her

That’s a pain in the ass. Especially because they’ll have to mail it, she’ll have to set it up, then if she decides she doesn’t want it, format it and Mail it back and then go buy another one. Isn’t there an easier way to just hold one for a couple of minutes?

You could try talking to your phone company about it. My wife had a problem where someone was spoofing her number to make the spam calls. So she’d get call backs from old ladies asking her who she is and what she wanted. But T-mobile shut down her number for like 24 hours, which was inconvenient for a day, but when it came back on the problem was resolved.

Also, you don’t even need a platform at all. Just a phone and a phone number.