I hate to ask, but what exactly is bubbles smoking?

It’s amusing how Google mentions stuff as being “exclusive to android” and then lies about it

Needs more material 3

I hope this means a US release is soon

I don’t hate copilot but I seldom use it enough to justify having a taskbar button for it

I hope Mastodon will incorporate this

Pretty nice.

Side note though, do people here actually read the articles here? It’s pretty obvious this would be a part of FMD. iPhone has already been doing this for years

I’m pretty sure you would be able to opt out of this. Just like the rest of Find My Device.

RCS is designed to be used with a phone number though. And fall back to SMS when unavailable. If XMPP was used.

If RCS was fully walled off, Apple would not be able to implement it like they said they would

I really hope this means either a new MTP app is coming (ideal) or quick share for MacOS is officially coming (ok)

I use it sometimes, there can be a bit of drama at times, but it’s pretty nice.

It’s nice to see another Android browser follow Mozilla’s steps and implement extensions. Though I strongly doubt Google is ever going to follow. Chrome not having extensions (or an ad blocker, at minimum with history and bookmark synchronization) on mobile is the main reason I don’t use it anywhere.

It seems like this is only going to be coming in the EU :(

Not really “stopped supporting”, but really made changes in a way that made non system launchers unable to integrate with QuickStep (The app switcher of android). The end result is uneven animations when moving from an app to the home screen, or from the home screen to the app switcher.

You might not notice if you use button navigation or turn off animations. But I don’t really consider those solutions, not to mention that it can be even worse on pixel tablet with the transient taskbar. Where the taskbar is embedded in animations with the PL, and if you’re using another launcher, it seems to cause all sorts of problems when doing certain things like going from the home screen to the app switcher. I actually had to move from button navigation (which I prefer on larger screens compared to smaller ones. Coupled with androids lack of gestures like on iPad) back to the default because the taskbar would just constantly disappear.

Honestly, I only really want to use the pixel launcher at this point because it feels like several things have broke because of me using a third party launcher. Especially on my pixel tablet with its custom taskbar.

Be Together, Not the Same

• Android ad campaign, 2014

That’s not my problem personally. It’s that they’re wasting time on stuff like this when they could be spending it on enhancing their browser in other ways

I would personally say that if you want to do work on a tablet, the pixel tablet isn’t good for you. But I own one, and I personally like it. Personally switched from an iPad mini 6th generation. Wish there was more drawing apps and better support them with USI.

It’s not like one of Samsung’s higher end tablets, but it’s also not like one of their cheap budget ones either that barely run the software given to them. It’s pretty much like the pixel phone and falls into the category of “good enough/acceptable”. Yeah there’s definitely better hardware out there, but it’s the software that is what makes it a decent tablet. A higher end model with stuff like a better refresh rate would be nice, but it’s not a requirement for me personally.

It’s a bit gimmicky, but I do like the hub mode of the tablet that’s engaged through the dock. It’s nice that the tablet can do something at all times even when it’s just changing.

My only real complaints about the tablet are the poor keyboard and mouse support (though that’s more of a problem on app developers), the fact the dock doesn’t do much. And I’ve also noticed quite a few problems using other launchers with it (probably because the taskbar is very heavily tied to the pixel launcher).

Sometimes I wonder if the reason is because Mozilla doesn’t want to associate their browser with Google. It’s just kind of a wild guess, but that’s kind of what I think. But then again, Mozilla has some really weird branding fetish

As per usual, Mozilla seeking experimental stuff for their browser instead of creating things that would be likely more accessible then the framework required for AI