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I don’t really understand how this is a material change from what AOSP gives you right now? Can anyone explain?

For example: AOSP has been available to EU start-ups for over a decade for free and open source but none have built alternative payment systems or email or maps or advertising services on top of it in a cohesive way before. What is this law going to allow them to do that they couldn’t before? 🤔

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Stock Android is AOSP. And it’s free.

I’m not sure why EU start-ups don’t just build services on top and compete like Huawei does in China or to a certain extent Amazon does with its Android variant.

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Ok that’s strange I can uninstall and disable Google Maps just fine in my phone right now and install an alternative Map provider of I wanted. Didn’t need legislation to do it.

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What’s the principle here? That manufactures aren’t allowed to tailor the user experience of their products? That doesn’t sound like good legislation. The equivalent would be if I wanted to bring my steering wheel from Toyota to my Audi because it promotes competition.

The regulations will encourage competition by allowing alternative payment systems, benefiting startups and consumers.

Car manufacturers must be compelled by the EU to provide pluggable and safe steering columns in cars to benefitting startups and consumers.

Obviously such a thing wouldn’t happen because it wouldn’t benefit EU car manufacturers. But let’s not talk about that, eh?

Let consumers vote with their feet. Let them choose alternatives that work for them. If there aren’t decent alternatives, build them. Why go heavy handed on legislation thinly veiled to extort money out of companies? Seriously why not build a competing payment system for the EU? The APIs are available and there’s tonnes of talented engineers in the EU. Start there. Build something better.

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OK

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Stock Android = AOSP

Google Android = AOSP + Play Services

I totally accept that Google Android is the defacto Android. But to claim that people can’t build competing services based on AOSP is just wrong. Just take Huawei as an example. That’s all the EU needs to push. EU Android with EU specific services. They could build it now.

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First of all, phones aren’t sold with AOSP.

They’re not. But my point is that EU manufacturers / start-ups could easily make their own flavour of Android based on AOSP and launch that as a product. Why don’t they? Case in point Huawei.

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Where are we going to get the infinite energy required to move faster than light? ONSHORE WIND FARMS?!?!

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It has e at the start.

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Yes and here in the UK if you fail your test enough times with a manual transmission you get to try with an automatic.

New features/changes to the Android ecosystem will almost always go against what enthusiasts want.

First off, I don’t think every single one of Google’s decisions regarding Android is good. Hell I actually think they’ve blundered too many times to count when it comes to bringing new features to Android. That said, for Android to mature further, it really needs to go the “it just works” route that Apple’s been...

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features like Nearby Share rely on Google accounts garners a lot of hate from the FOSS/enthusiast crowd

I don’t think these are FOSS enthusiasts. They’re people that want free stuff without putting any effort into it. Big difference. The real FOSS enthusiasts would simply build their own competing implementation based on the open source version of Android AOSP. Amazon / Microsoft / Huawei have exactly this to varying degrees.

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They don’t have any factual basis. They’re an incredibly bitter small minded racist. They’ve been posting the same shit on almost every thread they’re in. It’s really sad to to see. As much as we teach our children about tolerance and acceptance you still get people like this with their warped views. They’re too far down the rabbit hole of racism to notice so will just lash out at anyone by calling them a bot. It’s pathetic.

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Looks like there’s an option to cast to your TV?

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I mean, come on Lili. It was fucking shite.

is anyone else bothered by the lack of the 3 buttons at the bottom

So i just bought Asus rog phone 6d and im extremely bothered by the lack of the back ,home and whatewer is the 3 one called buttons on the news androids. Is this something you all got used to with time or does this still bother you( IT really fells much less intuitive compared to the old 3 buttons ,alghtough preferably i would...

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It’s just too easy to accidentally swipe back. A massive massive flaw in my opinion. The amount of times I catch my self entering a screen scrolling vertically and then accidentally exiting only to lose my place when I return.

Having said that the speed of doing actions has increased for me. It’s just the accuracy has decreased at the same time.

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Not enough it seems. Still a huge false positive rate. Made worse by horizontal lists in a lot of apps. Developers are supposed to be able to enforce special zones where the gesture isn’t recognised allowing for horizontal scrolling but this doesn’t seem to be working either.

A poorly implemented feature that takes the ecosystem backwards.

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Or the office would have to be in my street,

Could become a road sweeper?

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It’s a can of shite. Only slightly better than Carling.

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I also came to this conclusion…

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It’s like that blue dress green dress thing. All I see is a double ended anal plug. One side for the novice, one side for the pros.

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AHH obviously a Funkadelic fan.

mannycalavera ,
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That’s so cool. It’s a proper old skool website. No shitty JavaScript, loads blazing fast. Just pure content. Love it!

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As much as it is funny laughing at Irish Nazis, is this really UK content? They’re two different countries and have been for a long time.

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Mate, reign it in. Nobody is saying that. It’s a UK Casual community not a world casual community and I dare say the Irish would take offence to be called part of the UK.

Jesus you clown 🤡.

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LOL this is not how you gather data in a mobile app. There isn’t a GATHER_USER_DATA permission 🤣🤣🤣

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That’s only one of the many data points an app could get. Simply tracking user’s network behaviour would be far more valuable than getting their location data.

Oh great they’re in the US…

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6% of BRITISH shoppers admit they do THIS at the checkout!

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I thought they only gave waivers to productions that were sufficiently independent that they didn’t have a majority SAG presence. So pulling out basically puts that production at risk of shutting down and means hard working people won’t get paid. That’s cool, at least she has solidarity. 🙄

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OK

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This is the first time I’ve heard of this fake outrage. Literally no-one does this in any of the pubs I drink at.

Indicating on roundabouts

I was always under the impression that on a “normal" 4 exit roundabout (i.e. two roads crossing), you would indicate left if going left, right if going right, and no indication if going straight on. Then whichever way you’re going you indicate left when passing the exit before. However, a number of drivers indicate right...

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Have you considered that a lot of people who drive cars are crap drivers? Not counting you of course, this is exactly how I do roundabouts.

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Yup they do.

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Giving this a go now. Thanks.

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Bap

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Hi. Bracing ourselves for the onslaught of rain tomorrow.

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