No, American iPhone users use iMessage and think they’re superior. American Android users don’t give a fuck and think it’s hilarious that iOS users think they’re superior because they used dumbed down devices that nag for money everywhere.

You should consider staying in your own lane…

A small handful of iOS users might complain about iOS, but a majority of us don’t give a shit and can’t understand why anybody would brag about having an inferior OS.

And sure people make accounts all the time, but if doesn’t mean they enjoy doing it. I doubt most people enjoy having to flip between messenger, signal, telegram, and WhatsApp - and RCS fixes most of that since everybody has access to it, and SMS is still a main go-to for messaging in north America anyway.

Any more stupid takes to share with us?

Which is why Americans use it? Sorry you struggle to put two and two together…

Literally nobody is hung up on bubble colours other than you and iPhone users… Most people don’t give a shit, and the added benefits of RCS basically bring it up to spec with a typical messenger, and since it’s pre-installed it means that you don’t need to worry about messenger app segregation. You don’t even need to create an account.

This is such a dumb take… “Lol Americans all using SMS! We prefer to install 4 different messaging apps to talk to people, and can’t do shit if we end up in an area with low reception”

10/10

I use Boost for all the same reason. The familiarity made the transition much easier

I’m sure if you swipe down from the top, the menu will stop drop down

Pretty sure a lot of apps do this now

Google music, Google+, Google Spaces, they even killed Google Cache recently - which was a fantastic way to get around my work’s brain-dead decision to block the company (including IT) from reaching Reddit.

I switched to T-UI Launcher like 7 years ago and never looked back. The F-Droid version is the best version, the one on Google Play lacks SMS and some other features.

Command line launcher is unironically by far the best and most efficient thing I’ve ever used. I tried T-E-L but I found it was a real battery hog. I may give it another go though. Maybe it was just a problem with the phone I was using at the time.

It will be a really sad day when they kill Termux and Tasker. At the same time, maybe it will be the push for people smarter than me to write a proper competitive OS that we can flash.

Don’t most phones these days generate a spoofed MAC address by default?

I haven’t since my S5, but with the constant regressive changed Google is making, it’s becoming more and more tempting to do it again.

Would be nice if App developers would stop blocking use of their apps if you have a rooted device, though.

Can Textra handle RCS yet? I bought it ages ago but ditched it when it couldn’t handle RCS

I don’t remember ever not having notification history - you’d just have to dig a bit to get there. I think Nova used to even let you make a custom shortcut right to it.

The problem with hardware is that they were one of the last (and possibly the last of the heavy hitters) to ditch the SD cards.

Hear me out:

Samsung Galaxy S5

Pros:

• User replaceable battery
• water resistant and dust resistant
• Custom OSes available, easily flashable*
• Headphone jack
• IR blaster
• Heart rate monitor

*Flashing will vlow the eFuse and disable Knox. It will also make it a bit more difficult to use some apps.

Negatives:

• Its old hardware is prob gonna struggle to run most things these days.

(I’m half kidding. My S23 Ultra is hot garbage for features. Fuckers even stripped the SD card support out so my storage just got cut significantly unless I pay for a subscription instead of a single payment on an SD card that I can access in a Faraday Cage if I wanted to. Idk why they care so much about camera quality - especially when they’ve just made it more difficult and expensive to store images in bulk. If you want pro pictures, get an SLR and take pro pictures. You don’t expect that from a laptop, why do we expect it from a pocket computer?)

Doesn’t mean they couldn’t include an option for a user to pick a default, though.

I sometimes get “Bing Search” where the usual search should be. Drives me nuts - this is the kind of shit Google should be fixing. But instead they’re cutting off actually useful shit like logcat

The version of t-ui (Linux Command Line Launcher) is way better on there than it is in Google Play