The aspect ratio is an enormous downgrade from last year. Complete deal breaker for me.
Huh? This is a hardware successor to the 2020 "Chromecast with Google TV". This device will support casting. Casting isn't going anywhere...
That's not entirely true. They may have the same processor but they don't have the same amount of RAM, which is actually super critical for on device AI tasks. They recently brought all the features to the Pixel 8, but it took additional time to optimize for 8 GB vs the 12 GB of the Pro.
What does any of this have to do with Google removing apps from the Play Store?
As you sort of alluded to timing makes a big difference because it's a cat and mouse game. The last I had heard iPhones were pretty easy targets but some of the top end Android phones weren't. iOS 17.4 is relatively new.
Who cares. Play Services backwards compatibility for new Android APIs and security updates being separated from the OS make this irrelevant.
You must be new here. People constantly state they love the ability to lay Pixels flat.
Also it doesn't look like that's changing with the 9 series...
As someone who works for a similar company now, this notion and the success of this strategy/mindset greatly exaggerated.
Considering how often new projects get axed at Google you couldn't possibly be safer on average than working on a golden goose (like Search/Android/Maps/etc).
Bullshit. You are just regurgitating the same tired crap that's been repeated on the Internet for years.
Does F-Droid often sign apps they distribute? That seems odd.
I didn't realize at first that the 24 in the version number stood for the year 2024. That made the initial version being 7.6, then the next version 24.2 very confusing lol
No, but I've used an Azeron for gaming for a bunch of years now. It's great for gaming but I don't think I would even recommend anything remotely close to actual typing.
It makes sense when you factor in the development and maintenance cost. How many people have a desk with monitors, keyboard and mouse but don't already have a more powerful machine they use there?It's a high price to pay for the 1% of users that will ever try it.
Trying out a Kinesis Advantage was what really got me into ergonomic keyboards. However, I spent very little time with it before getting an Ergodox (Hotdox), that I stuck with for years. That whole time I thought that I didn't like keywells.... but really I just didn't like the (orthorinear) Kinesis keywells. I know this now after building the dactyl manuform that I use every day.
If you can get a sense for what you want I highly recommend getting a dactyl manuform. Nothing from a company is remotely close in terms of customization. If you can/want to build it yourself even better because you can cheaply experiment and find out what you like.
This is going to sound very 'my uncle works for Nintendo' so feel free to not believe me, but the last I heard it was a "talent retention project". Google would rather let some extremely good engineers work on Fuschia, even though it that has very little value, than leave the company and build something higher value for a competitor.
The real important reminder here is that you should never use SMS as your 2FA delivery method. Phone numbers aren't private and once associated with an account it's far too easy to spoof/sim swap and intercept the code.
That is exactly like saying having a separate deadbolt on your door is adding another attack vector...
It’s not clear why Google wants to do this, but one theory is that it’ll run some workloads more optimally and securely than microdroid.
Microdroid is a "Parallel Virtual Machine". The idea is to offload part of the responsibility of an app to this VM so that it can execute in an environment that is more secure than what Android can guarantee.
So nobody knows why but (in typical Fuchsia fashion) it probably isn't something a consumer would even know or care about.
Uh huh... The Oxford definition literally says that's untue.
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Huh? Multimodal is coming later this year (like I said in my last comment).
They have had on device Gen AI running on Pixel phones in production since last year.