Frankly, YoshiP's comments have only ever made me feel like he's some out-of-touch edgelord, so this doesn't surprise me.
I avoid his stuff like the plague since he feels diversity (apparently slavery as well, lol) is nothing more than window dressing as opposed to a fact of life & history.
Enjoy the disappointing sales Square! I know you lost at least one Final Fantasy fan with this clown at the helm.
Calling ChromeOS users slow is certainly uncalled for, so I'm not defending the previous poster. Still, I don't think we should encourage development on ChromeOS.
Google themselves do everything possible to make the platform hell to develop on and for, including breaking Google Cloud Code signin in Jetbrains IDEs, making it impossible to use Flutter Web in Android Studio without a second browser installed in the VM, and preventing gpu access in the VM.
The Android dev experience is better on a Windows or Mac, too, since the Android environment runs in a vm on objectively worse hardware than any modern windows or Mac of comparable price.
I can see why you enjoy ChromeOS (I do/did too), but I think Google is too dumb a company to run a true desktop platform.
Gotcha. The Fold has a side button fingerprint sensor and decent facial recognition on both selfie cameras (I never use that because the fingerprint is just so fast and easy), but i know some peoples fingerprints don't get picked up by the under display tech.
I would disagree on imessage being of any value, but that's partially because I message through telegram, slack, discord, and whatsapp. If you're a teenager, I can see it meaning more with the recent blue/green bubbles stuff. As an adult, I'll take sideloading, spen, dex, and a host of other pros over imessage in a heartbeat.
I feel like most people who switch and talk bad about Android are using cheap hardware from dodgy OEMs, and/or Google's hardware.
Samsung's devices (imo) are the only ones that really compare with Apple's, and they do so favorably. If you like Apple, you like Apple, but I don't see any of the things you mentioned as being of any value. I hate Apple's UX/UI in general, don't care about sms in general, battery life depends on your Android device, and I like the fingerprint & face unlock combo on my Fold 4.
And yeah, I like folding phones. You say you're frustrated with Android features that are "behind," but I can't imagine what iPhones do that puts them "ahead" of premium Androids. They're just different.
In my experience, no. The software is blank (which some prefer, so more power to you!) and the hardware is weak and unreliable.
An $1800 phone shouldn't fail in a few days, but no one here has expressed any surprise at this "news." Why not? Because it's a google phone.
Absolutely love mine, but I don't touch Google hardware.
I also use a Chromebook, so I use these "native" extensions I developed.
I hate it too. It looks too much like a Fisher-Price toy.
Nice! Looking forward to having a more relaible calling app than phonelink has been for me.