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You’re preaching to the choir. I’ve used Android since 2010 (and iOS since 2016). I have a 2024 iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a 2019 Galaxy S10 (years included to make a point, they aren’t part of the name of the phone and those phone models did not have releases in other years). Guess which one types better. Not to mention the customisation. It’s also not that much slower. It’s really not slow. I’d make it a daily driver if it had a newer battery. The thing only lasts a couple hours. Absolute joy to use when it works.
I can argue in favour of either of them, or against either of them. At the end of the day, one is made by an advertising company but has more options, and the other is made by a computer that sucks up to its country’s supreme ruler and treats its users like children. Neither platform is “better”. They both suck, and they both do a few things well. Most of the things people do are done at least acceptably on both.
The big change with Android I think you’re referring to is the 24-hour lock on unsigned code. So right now (and forever with my S10 because it’s not getting updates anymore), you can install a .apk (Android Package) from the Internet and it just works, just like a .exe on Windows or a .app on macOS (what I use). So with Android in 2027 or 2028 or whenever they are going to do this, you will need to go into the settings and enable unsigned code. Otherwise, no .apk installation for you, you must go through the Play Store. However, if you do do it, you must wait 24 hours for the feature to unlock. So, say I buy a new Android phone that has this feature. Being a savvy user, the very first thing I’m doing is enabling that setting. Then I’m gonna go install Nova Launcher and its Prime unlocker, Poweramp, and all my go-to Android apps. When the 24 hours is up, by then I’ll have things set up how I want, and then I can start installing stuff from outside the Play Store. I can’t think of anything, but I want the ability to decide for myself. The problem is, and the reason this feature exists, is if you want something right fucking now, you have to wait. So scammers will make an app and they will try to get people to install it. Those people would enable the feature and then have to wait 24 hours. Google is hoping that in that time, you realise installing some sketchy app is a really bad idea, so you don’t do it, and maybe turn the feature back off. Of course, “trust us, our app store is safe” is almost always bullshit. Apple was found to have been harbouring, and profiting from, a fake cryto wallet app that stole over a million dollars from a half dozen plaintiffs who are suing. This was an app in Apple’s App Store that they said is safe, and they lost many thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, on Apple’s promises. And of course Google is no better.
Poweramp — or maybe PlayerPro, I forget which one — used to have a feature where you could set the EQ per song. Maybe also per album, per playlist, per whatever the hell. It was neat.
I’m one of those guys who trusts the person mastering the audio to set the levels right, so I leave my EQ off. That being said, I absolutely support the end user’s right to screw with their audio however they want. I used to like Winamp’s “small speakers” (or maybe it was “laptop speakers”) preset, but… I had small speakers.
Genocide
Got it on Android
Checkmate, other phone people! Swipe-typed and everything. Come to the EVOLVED mobile OS /s (don’t, Android is a piece of shit and getting worse)
You’re preaching to the choir. I’ve used Android since 2010 (and iOS since 2016). I have a 2024 iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a 2019 Galaxy S10 (years included to make a point, they aren’t part of the name of the phone and those phone models did not have releases in other years). Guess which one types better. Not to mention the customisation. It’s also not that much slower. It’s really not slow. I’d make it a daily driver if it had a newer battery. The thing only lasts a couple hours. Absolute joy to use when it works.
I can argue in favour of either of them, or against either of them. At the end of the day, one is made by an advertising company but has more options, and the other is made by a computer that sucks up to its country’s supreme ruler and treats its users like children. Neither platform is “better”. They both suck, and they both do a few things well. Most of the things people do are done at least acceptably on both.
The big change with Android I think you’re referring to is the 24-hour lock on unsigned code. So right now (and forever with my S10 because it’s not getting updates anymore), you can install a .apk (Android Package) from the Internet and it just works, just like a .exe on Windows or a .app on macOS (what I use). So with Android in 2027 or 2028 or whenever they are going to do this, you will need to go into the settings and enable unsigned code. Otherwise, no .apk installation for you, you must go through the Play Store. However, if you do do it, you must wait 24 hours for the feature to unlock. So, say I buy a new Android phone that has this feature. Being a savvy user, the very first thing I’m doing is enabling that setting. Then I’m gonna go install Nova Launcher and its Prime unlocker, Poweramp, and all my go-to Android apps. When the 24 hours is up, by then I’ll have things set up how I want, and then I can start installing stuff from outside the Play Store. I can’t think of anything, but I want the ability to decide for myself. The problem is, and the reason this feature exists, is if you want something right fucking now, you have to wait. So scammers will make an app and they will try to get people to install it. Those people would enable the feature and then have to wait 24 hours. Google is hoping that in that time, you realise installing some sketchy app is a really bad idea, so you don’t do it, and maybe turn the feature back off. Of course, “trust us, our app store is safe” is almost always bullshit. Apple was found to have been harbouring, and profiting from, a fake cryto wallet app that stole over a million dollars from a half dozen plaintiffs who are suing. This was an app in Apple’s App Store that they said is safe, and they lost many thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, on Apple’s promises. And of course Google is no better.
Poweramp’s global eq should actually just be part of the os.
Poweramp — or maybe PlayerPro, I forget which one — used to have a feature where you could set the EQ per song. Maybe also per album, per playlist, per whatever the hell. It was neat.
I’m one of those guys who trusts the person mastering the audio to set the levels right, so I leave my EQ off. That being said, I absolutely support the end user’s right to screw with their audio however they want. I used to like Winamp’s “small speakers” (or maybe it was “laptop speakers”) preset, but… I had small speakers.