Sendbeer

You make some valid points. But they pertain to your own experience. Their post is just as valid, because someone asked him why he was thinking about switching and he gave his own experience. Also a valid point for his own view. It's an opinion after all.

To say you haven't experienced the problems are well and good, but to trivialize his points down to "user error" was kind of dickish.

I can relate to the comment. Within the last month Google messages has required me to resync my tablet app several times. Fixing that required logging out all devices and changing the login method. Speaking of messages, the tablet app is... Not very good. Messages take a long time to notify there, well after my watch, and when I open the app the message still takes a couple seconds to show up as it is apparently retrieving the message from the phone app. Even though the message is (still) shown in the notification. Reading messages on the tablet don't clear the read receipt on the phone. Various random bugs seem to popup. On the phone I randomly get pictures or messages I had written to OTHER PEOPLE waiting to be sent. Google messages is king of a shit app and I greatly miss Textra and even Samsung Messages. Thank you Google for not opening the RCS API to third parties.

But that's just messages. Googles auto fill service has sucked from day one. Often I will click a username or password multiple times trying to get the popup to show up. I'll then sigh, go open Bitwarden, copy my password, go back to the app, click on the password field, and then... the fucking auto fill popup appears. This experience has been shit from day one and Google has never made any attempt to fix it that I can see.

Android Autos new split screen is nice. But every once in a while the maps side will become unresponsive. Or the media app just dissapears and I have a black in its place. Only way to fix that is to unplug the phone and plug it back in. Super fun driving down the road.

I really could go on and on... Google has a habit of dumping random features in the OS and then never bothering to update again as they go on to their next shiny feature like the dog from the movie Up when someone yells squirrel. Apple users may be smug with their "just works" mantra, and they are not immune to bugs like any software developer, but it really does seem to be a more polished experience devoid of issues like the above. It's also a lot more boring.... but I can understand why someone would make a switch. Attributing another person's issues to user error because you THINK the android experience is flawless seems rather snarky.

There is way too much tracking of my information as it is. I don't need my name tracked every time I buy a coke. Maybe it's time to move on from plastic bottling. Be better to move on to something that is actually recyclable or at least breaks down when disposed.

Well yeah, if you were paying $50 a GB wouldn't you too? Got to lock that shit down!

If it wasn't $1600 maybe I could buy that. But at that price I am expecting a little bit more and only including 8 gb is pathetic.

I just ordered one of those pillows last night. Can't wait to try it out.

It helps when we let them build virtual monopolies with almost no regulation.

“Farmers and consumers need to not only be able to trust the regulation of the products they use but trust that the government has made decisions based on agreed-upon and established science, facts and data.”

Yeah that's the thing. We DON'T trust any of you fucks.

It might come from those cheap portable models. I tried one my mom had and the cycles were very obvious. It was difficult to do anything where I had to hold a temp, even doing a simple simmer was hard because it would go from boiling to nothing repeatedly. Things constantly burned on it due to poor temp regulation. I know it was a shitty model and I expect full size models to be much better, but it was a concern of mine as well.

I do hope to pick up an induction within a year or two. Can't really afford it at the moment though.

I don't know, this is something that might be cool. But I'm not spending any significant amount of money on a Google project the way they cancel them on a whim. Good luck to them though.

Cool app, works real slick when used with share menu too.

Link to fdroid for the lazy.