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Stop trying to bring iMessage to Android!
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Yeah, no. I’ll take my Galaxy Fold 5 over an iPhone any day of the week, thanks.
Ignoramuses who believe Android is technologically falling behind the iPhone are flatly wrong on nearly every count. Android caught up to iOS in about 2008 and has been leading the way in features ever since. The more open app ecosystem has lead to a flourishing open source development community.
Anything you can do on a computer, you can do on an Android. iPhones are fundamentally limited to what Apple gives permission to exist within their app store, by contrast. Android lets you install an alternative store and therefore anything you want.
Yeah, no. I’ll take my Galaxy Fold 5 over an iPhone any day of the week, thanks.
The Spen is a great feature, imo. Iphone has nothing to compare on that front.
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I see, it seems I misunderstood the nuance of your comment. You’re thinking ahead to 30-40 years from now.
That was a general statement because I wasn’t totally sure where you stood, but I thought perhaps you were being misled by those types.
OneUI is reasonably fast and the hardware is chunky enough that nothing feels slow to me, subjectively. I previously had a Fold 2 and the only downgrade from my perspective is the fingerprint reader, which has gotten smaller and has slightly more failures to read. Everything else is fantastic, IMO. The thing feels like a solid brick of a phone while folded and a sturdy tablet when open.
If the narrow screen bugs you, it’s worth considering the Pixel Fold IMO (or perhaps next year’s Pixel Fold 2). I would have gone with it for the Graphene OS support if not for the fact that Samsung offered me $800 to trade in my fold 2, whereas Google offered me $160.
Apple is a big ol’ monopoly with strong cult vibes. I think if we end up with an Apple-dominated culture with that degree of vendor lock-in, we will have collectively failed as a civilization anyhow, so I’m not going to worry about the scenario you’ve described outside of my existing anti-trust, anti-giant-corp politics.
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The best thing I can say about Beeper Mini is that almost no one noticed I was using it: blue bubbles just started appearing — no lost messages to speak of.
For all the bitching and moaning about green bubbles, no one even noticed the blue one?
Hahaha, right?
This is cool but I’m happy self hosting bluebubbles.
Using a matrix bridge?
No, I setup a MacOS VM on my home Linux server using docker-osx which runs a bluebubbles server. It doesn’t use Matrix.
I’m trying it out. It works well.
Not sure if I’m going to keep an active acct tho. Not until it integrates with more services. That’s on the road map
