Frankly, decentralized networks make it even harder to take content down.
Frankly, decentralized networks make it even harder to take content down.
Play Store already does a weird thing to some niche apps where you have to have to click twice on an app to even see full details like screenshots. For example, look up the app “SecondScreen”.
Widget stacks and per-screen customization as well.
Another article blurring the lines of a skin and a launcher. I don’t care what your default launcher does, not gonna use it anyway. System-wide features, on the other hand…
What I don’t understand is do any of the OEMs giving this feature also combine it with passthrough power? So besides not charging the phone at 80%, it would keep it working using the wire instead of the battery.
Perhaps you could report it to Google Play for that?
But sideloading and OEM stores (Samsung, Huawei) have been available for years?
I don’t understand the second one “Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app”.
In real life you don’t see big supermarkets spread their flyers in competitors’ stores, how does that make sense digitally?
I’ve noticed that XDA still has the main threads and download links, even if more frequent communication happens elsewhere.
Having used custom ROMs for years, it can get tiring to fight with SafetyNet, find root backup apps that still work, dealing with bugs the developer may not be able to reproduce and, of course, even finding decent phones that have decent ROMs. I refuse to buy a Pixel until they have a decent SoC and price.
So for my next phone I’m currently considering an OEM that supports phones for long and has decent customization by default - Samsung. As I’ve never owned Samsung phones before, I don’t know whether I’ll like their OS, but so far it looks good enough.
So it took 4 major releases to make the quick settings reasonable again… I’m actually glad most other OEMs did not follow when Google did the change in 12.
every app wanted to have its own persistent notification
When? Which apps? I’ve been using Android since KitKat and I only remember persistent notifications by apps that needed them (to keep working, stay in memory).
That said, I agree that a permission would be nice, as I am skeptical of the use cases shown in the article mockups. I think it should stay an ongoing notification thing as anything else would indeed take more space.
But it would use less energy afterwards? At least that was claimed with the 4o model for example.
Yes, by default every Chromium browser is affected. It is just a matter of
Maybe there will be some devs working on Ungoogled Chromium to keep the support, but they also have to think where users would even get the extensions from.
We will now [Oct 9] begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable. This change will be slowly rolled out over the following weeks. Users will be directed to the Chrome Web Store, where they will be recommended Manifest V3 alternatives for their disabled extension. For a short time, users will still be able to turn their Manifest V2 extensions back on. Enterprises using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be exempt from any browser changes until June 2025.
So there is no single date for normal users, but June 2025 is fixed for enterprise (and expected date for Brave, Vivaldi)
Probably Google Play Services, motion sensors, heuristics
Surely you can use it, the tab switching just requires more taps compared to competitors.
Edit: that said, I just found this extension which I expected someone to make by now.
Firefox used to allow a lot more extensions though, until they switched to Fenix UI and restricted them to a selected few. And then they expanded the support again.
Firefox’s new UI still lacks a tablet-optimized interface, for example.
Sure, if it is already private. But if it is not, then it gets copied to different instances and so if the original post gets removed, it is up to each instance to follow and when.