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- Bennn5
Google Stadia, the future of gaming. I'm really impressed.
- Basically, you dont need a console ot computer, its all streaming. You can play on any screen you have. AAA games full 3D infinite possibilities.Bennn
- I think its the most impressive tech i've seen in a long timeBennn
- Foldable phones arrives at the right time for thisBennn
- they're gonna take a healthy chunk of the gaming industry billions. if not most of itGnash
- You can litterally watch a video game trailer on Youtube, hit the PLAY NOW button at the end and start playing in 3sec. a game that would take 4 hours to downloBennn
- download on Steam.Bennn
- Not clear what games... PC games only? Will they be competing with PS Now?drgs
- You can play on your phone, TV, laptop, tablet, cheapass PCBennn
- Possibilities to have ultra massive multiplayer like 1,000s of players at the same time. No latency.Bennn
- 1080 & 4KBennn
- I guarantee there's a monthly subscription fee though, and since it's for virtual content, there's no way you could ever pay for itmonospaced
- ^ oh, snap!Gnash
- I'm just playin' ... I think this is really cool and definitely the future.monospaced
- Interessantset
- fantastic, game changer (no pun intended).fadein11
- Streaming is the future of gaming. And how you will be able to finally have AAA games on mobile. 5G will be great for this.NBQ00
- Its a glympse on the future of computers in general. All you'll need is screens, everything will be streaming, the OS, the programs, the games... etcBennn
- Hi hackers! Cyber-War is coming.Bennn
- Sounds awesome, but I don't want to deal with latency, ever. The fact that this is Linux based is very promising tough.section_014
- Great for casual, same old streaming shite for decent lo ping multiplayer.
It's Google, so a) It's Google, b) It'll get cancelled when they change their mindNairn - Meh, just another subscription service like Adobe's. I ain't paying a monthly fee just to play a couple of games, that's a ripoff.zarkonite
- i dont know, maybe you'll have to pay the games individually. Like on any consoles.Bennn
- @section_014 Thats one of the main thing of it, there's virtually no latency at all..! 60FPS all the time.Bennn
- oops, I missed the all-important word in my whinge - 'latency'.Nairn
- haha, too late.
I'm curious to know how they can sustain a constant 60fps across the board, across all reasonably-common connectionsNairn - The one use for HD game streaming I always thought would be neat was as far-off backgrounds in otherwise-local FPS games.Nairn
- watch the announcment, lots of technical details in itBennn
- I'm sure, but I'm also more familiar with my shitty home broadband connection than Google is.Nairn
- Given how copyright law works and this is a streaming service, there's little chance game devs are going to agree to sell their games.zarkonite
- It's very likely to be a subscription service.zarkonite
- i demand launch date and list of gamesdrgs
- As soon as someone else in your house starts watching a make up video on youtube, expect the game play to be lagging...shapesalad
- didn't Sony and Valve/Steam already attempt this?inteliboy
- https://en.wikipedia…inteliboy
- color me impresseddee-dubs
- inteliboy: the difference here is that google built a crazy ass network + server farms to make it work.zarkonite
- Comcast has a 1GB monthly cap, if I streamed all the hours I played games I'd blow through that way quicker than I already do.evilpeacock
- of course, you'll need unlimited internet, I already have it since a few years since we're streaming video like crazy in here.Bennn
- bennn: pay monthly for software to earn $$$: fuck no! pay monthly to play video games : take my money!! I need a bennnsplanation on this one.dyspl
- plus adobe cc is too expensivemonospaced
- Here's an article resuming for those interested: https://www.theverge…Bennn
- Exciting! I look forward to playing Tetris and Chess on Stadia!!!Krassy
- nvidia has this for years alreadymekk
- if it work, it would be amazing. "if"pango
- w about privacy? G does only things if they can collect data. i am sure there will be a microphone in any device like in nest. google is a heavy data collector.api
- Ya mics are already in controllerspango
- and in-game advertisingemphor
- drgs2
I googled opening hours of the grocery store in my neighborhood I use to visit
Google shows me:
"Your past visits: You visited 6 days ago · Edit
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 10PM"I click on Edit next to my past visits
There is a timeline with detailed route map of where I have been for every day of the month
The light blue lines = walking
Dark blue = by car/busThey are probably able to do this because I have a Google Pixel phone, but didn't even know it had this feature.
Just to make it clear, I stopped caring about these things a while ago
- Is your GPS always on?dmay
- Must be, I don't notice it on battery lifedrgs
- *hunts drgs*Nairn
- It's totally because you have a Pixel. My work phone is a Pixel and it's all about tracking my every move and habit. Pretty creepy.monospaced
- Google has probably mapped your behavior and DNA and created a cloned version of you in a secret lab somewhere by now. Your fault for not opting out :/yuekit
- its ON on every phone having Goole Map and a Google account logged in i think. You have to go to your Google pref to disable this.Bennn
- I would care if I were doing illegal shit. It's not the case.Bennn
- Bennn. It doesn’t have this level of access on iPhones and other devices. Even when signed into each app it’s not even remotely close.monospaced
- FYI iPhones do this as well, they call it "significant locations" and can be turned on or off but it's on by default and turns back on every couple of updates.zarkonite
- they send out this info even if you have it switched off. I'm going to make a switch away from Andriod/IOS hopefully next yearmugwart
- What OS ? mugwartBennn
- to windowssted
- this is real bad, should be a clear "opt in" for protecting all the users.api
- You can open out gps historypango
- That's why I disable everything when I get an I phone and Google phonepango
- I wish I could see a history of my phone’s movementimbecile
- you live in norway?ArchitectofFate
- set4
- I literally just got an LG G6 today, haha. Happy with it, but this looks great...set
- it's gorgeouskona
- Yep looks superb. I just frowned at my old pixelfadein11
- fuck you! apple used to have the cool stuff. those were the daysGnash
- Haha yup. Those days are gone...set
- they shot themselves in the foot with the whole sync thing... photos, music, contacts, etc. it all seems too complicated to just work.zarkonite
- Nice. They must have cut the 'it's full of cunts' after the 'tell me about Sydney' question.MrT
- I really like the look of the white/black/orange XLBennn
- Does this one listen to you, then adjust your advertising profile? Honest question.slappy
- everything and everyone listen to youBennn
- All I saw was camera, more camera, better camera, much camera, photos, take photos, many photos, such camera....burnt
- ^ lol, burntGnash
- even has a headphone jack! they should have two headphone jacks just to spite applesarahfailin
- ^oops. does NOT have a headphone jack!!sarahfailin
- kingsteven5
Old web developer yells at cloud moment here...
Very nearly got stung by Google Maps API charges on a festival site I run. Would have been >$1k if I din't catch it and replace the API generated maps with standard iframe embeds (which took about an hour of my time)...
I don't expect service for free but this whole $200 free credit p/m totally excludes me from doing anything creative with maps in a web design setting. Everything these days is priced like "use our paid app startup to create your own paid app startup" and it's like a fucking pyramid scam for creative stagnation...
Going to clients like "oh, for this feature you'll have to pay 1 cent per pageview per API call if you get over 20,000 views in a month." just doesn't work for anything outside the paid app use case. For festival sites which have incredibly high traffic in one month and dead for the rest of the year i'm constantly getting the raw end... Same goes for hosting, I put all my festival sites on my ancient MT grid account because it's fixed price, can deal with the spikes and works out cheaper over a year than AWS would in the week of launch.
- Fuck Google.
Go Openstreetmap - heck, you can even download an SVG from them and roll your own.Nairn - we started using static images and a simple js what pulls the map if the visitor actually needs it.sted
- we have 135 venues this year and we had geocoding/ multiple locations on maps before we switched to the iframe embeds... considered openstreetmap but would havekingsteven
- to add half the venues to their db to get it to work + doesn't quite have the coverage in rural ireland i needed / the creative possibilities google maps has.kingsteven
- it's just a pity that google have chosen a spotifyesque BS pricing structure which makes it impossible to give a flat fee for running a website.kingsteven
- the reason a lot of these clients stick with me is because they have other shit to worry about and i make it simple.kingsteven
- i'd love to say it's classic bait and hook, but google maps must cost a shitload to run in server time alone. then again i never forgave them for changing mapshans_glib
- And google wonders why devs are leaving their environment. They do this shit all the time.section_014
- Wonder how much Uber or Lyft or other location based apps pay google to use those fucking maps api or something :))grafician
- yeah not quite bait and hook, not quite total monopolisation but $1k for 200,000 requests in 1 month vs $0 for the same over 5 months is not fair pricingkingsteven
- for professional use outside the paid / ad funded app use case.kingsteven
- If you can find or build a cheaper solution you should go for it, and share!zarkonite
- Screen record your google maps zooming into the locations. Upload to YouTube. Embed videos where map would be required. Google now pays you.shapesalad
- Fuck Google.
- Bennn3
Apple must be so pissed off, Google launching the best camera ever on a cellphone just 2 weeks after Apple HAD the best camera ever on a cellphone! Their reign lasted 2 weeks, trololo
- hahahaha!oey
- innovation brah!utopian
- This is really funny isntBennn
- what happened where android fanboys have become so obnoxiously smug? Benn spamming the apple thread, and whining about apple in the android thread.inteliboy
- the day apple isn't "innovating" and isn't alpha dog is the day you won't be going on and on and on about them.inteliboy
- It's kind of like those Linux fanboys, who gloat.Continuity
- Apple don't care - their phone is available everywhere. Google release in three territories, and I thought DxO numbers were wild after their OnePlus nonsense?face_melter
- LOOOLL utopiansureshot
- SO MAD! right Bennn?monospaced
- Wait 2 weeks, the iPhones will be topcraigatkinson
- intelliboy Apple hasn't been alpha dog in a long time. The market is really even, and right now I see more practical innovation coming from Google.zarkonite
- i_monk3
lol, good luck with that
- I started seeing that, too, a couple of days ago. Gave my screen the finger, killed the pop-up, and went right on watching.Continuity
- Switch to Bravepablo28
- I'm with Continuity, shouting at screen is the new shouting at clouds.MrT
- "Signs Your Getting Old"Continuity
- fuck off googlehans_glib
- WHAT?? I had to disable my ad blocker!! What you you guys using? These ads are driving me nutsProjectile
- Stop being poor. Get YouTube Premium.NBQ00
- @Projectile, I use a combo of AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, and EFF Privacy Badger.Continuity
- YouTube Premium really isn't that much.formed
- I like Premium. No ads (especially good when on mobile app) , no bitching & it comes with YT Music. Plus I can watch/ listen to videos when phone screen lockedNBQ00
- I paid for YouTube Premium ages ago to prevent ads and didn't even know I was getting the music. It's my main listening these days.CyBrainX
- Bennn2
"Google's Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers"
Link: https://gizmodo.com/googles-plan…
''The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with another designed to “diminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking extensions,”''
''The proposal would leave functional basic filters employed by Adblock Plus, which, the site noted, Google has reportedly paid to whitelist its own ads.''
- Time to reinstall IE?
j/kKrassy - Nice of google to help out firefox like thatmonNom
- I'm glad I switched to Firefox 2 or 3 years ago now.Bennn
- If ad blockers ever stop working on every browser one day, I'll freak out! I haven't saw ads since years!Bennn
- I don't know how people look at sites with the ads on. There's a new browser out that removes all the bloatware now I think.PhanLo
- This is the one
https://brave.comPhanLo - @PhanLo thanks for this. Have you used it?Krassy
- My friend recommended it to me, he said the speed of loading was quite noticeable compared to Safari. I've been too lazy to switch over.PhanLo
- IE is using Chromium going forward so if it's good I'll dump Chrome but they really need to get their shit together with dev tools.Boz
- I just reinstalled Netscapeutopian
- every browser launches as being the fastest ever, then gets bloated, then some new guy launches as being the fastest ever. rinse and repeat.inteliboy
- https://brave.com is the real deal. My default browser for over a year now. Built by Mozilla founder and creator of Javascript. Built in ad/tracer blockers.rabbit
- Mobile and desktop. No ads since.rabbit
- Brave still uses Chromium though, which would need hard forking, and anyway has a dubious funding / ad-blocking philosophy.Nairn
- Firefox is great - I never really stopped using it (ok, i went to Chrome for about 6-12 months when FF got slow decade or so ago).Nairn
- I can't get my head around people trusting Google with their holiest of holies - their entire interactivity with the internet via the browser, web tools, etcNairn
- firefox is great! love the sync with bookmarks and all the taps over all platforms! its also very fast these days. ad block+ is a musthave.api
- i'm using uBlock Origin. I have no ads.Bennn
- Time to reinstall IE?
- Nairn1
Client sent an .ai file via Google Drive.
I can see it - it's right there in the middle of the browser window - but I can't download it. There's no fucking download option, and I can't cheat by clicking Print and sending it to a PDF as the Print option is ghosted. Great stuff. Right-clicking does nothing, so all I can do is just sit here like a spazz.
I presume it's because I'm a) not logged into Google's ecosystem and b) using Firefox, but .. well, quelle surprise.
Die, Google, Die.
- have you tried Googling it? Most issues can be solved by Googling them hahaIanbolton
- Sorry, I'll leave.Ianbolton
- I think it's because they have to grant permission. I run into this ALL the time, even though I set it to EDIT for all shares. Super annoying.formed
- All of the "sharing" services are annoying, imho.formed
- Is there a download icon in the upper right corner (down arrow) perhaps?monospaced
- It's German for "The, Google, the"nb
- No, mono, there is not. Some credit, please! (It's had one in the past when I've been linked to someone's drive, but here, nup).Nairn
- if you have browser dev tools installed - can you right click - inspect source - copy PDF url and paste in browser tab?hotroddy
- Google and chrome hate me and I hate themmisterhow
- Sorry! It’s hard to know exactly what you’re seeing.monospaced
- What are you fighting against? Register at Google alreadydrgs
- It's annoying because sharing isn't always conditional with other apps and sites, and lol spazz.MrT
- Nairn0
https://redalemeden.com/blog/201…
"The dominance of Chrome has a major detrimental effect on the Web as an open platform: developers are increasingly shunning other browsers in their testing and bug-fixing routines. If it works as intended on Chrome, it’s ready to ship. This in turn results in more users flocking to the browser as their favorite Web sites and apps no longer work elsewhere, making developers less likely to spend time testing on other browsers. A vicious cycle that, if not broken, will result in most other browsers disappearing in the oblivion of irrelevance. And that’s exactly how you suffocate the open Web."
- But, in theory chrome / Firefox use the web standards. That was not the case with ie and safari a few years back...Salarrue
- Average person doesn't care about any of this, unfortunately. Hopefully people will go to Firefox when Google disables adblockers in chrome.section_014
- i dumped chrome a while ago for ff. in fact i've pretty much dumped goggle.hans_glib
- netscape hereGnash
- this happened with iOS in the beginning, but things eventually evened out with Android, mostlymonospaced
- I'm using Vivaldi since two days at work, built on Chromium engine. Very nice! All the features from Chrome and Firefox are there. It uses Chromes's addons too.Bennn
- https://vivaldi.com/…Bennn
- hans_glib, are you using Gmail?Bennn
- The sidebar to watch for example Youtube while srufing the web is very nice on VivaldiBennn
- “Favorite websites no longer work elsewhere”... seems like a stretch. Standardization between browsers is good enough these days that most sitesyuekit
- that work properly on Chrome will display the same (or almost the same) elsewhere, no?yuekit
- Anyway there are lots of iOS users out there who will continue to use Safari by default.yuekit
- there needs to be a standard, so one browser or multiple browsers that work as expected. browser specific fixes shows browsers haven't been sorted correctlyimbecile
- there are international standards they must all meet, but each one of course has to innovate on top of that, to differentiate and attract usersmonospaced
- there are only suggestions set by the W3C, if all browsers do not adhere to those, there are not standards. no need to argue.imbecile
- Thank Zeldman for things being a million times better than they were 10 years ago.
Personally I rarely notice any major bugs when testing these days.fadein11 - Chrome and Safari behave virtually identically.fadein11
- I wasn't arguing, just saying that they meet a set of standards. Thanks for pointing out they aren't required to adhere (even though they all do). :)monospaced
- The W3C is the more purist version. There is a second standards group composed of people from the big tech companies which tries to agree how to implement theiryuekit
- ideas, and it then gets built into the browsers. So at least they try to work together rather than crush their opponents like Microsoft did back in the day.yuekit
- many js plugins/libraries are shit on safarihotroddy
- uan6
Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts on April 2, 2019
- https://wordstream-f…dbloc
- Right to the Google Graveyard!utopian
- I thought they were already doing thatcannonball1978
- yep, they told in nov2018. now they published how to download your content before it goes dark.uan
- detritus2
I've often accused Google of being duplicitously stupid on here, for presumed nefarious purposes I can't quite work out.
Now I'm just thinking it's fucking stupid.
I've just noticed a wee thing at the bottom of my Google Search results that states my location, at least as best as Google can work it out.
Now, bear in mind I've many times confirmed my login on this computer, at this address for the last at least two years continually now - London, England. I can understand perhaps a little confusion arising from broad-area IP geo-location, and have in the past seen my position as a satellite town about 15 miles away. Not great, but understandable.
Now, for some reason, Google is confinced I am in fact in Pitlochry, a small town in the heart of Scotland I once ivisited when I was 9. It's 470-odd miles away.
I have never expressed any interest in Pitlochry or much else of Scotland beyond the cities and the occasional family house via Google, so I've no idea what the stupid fucking thing's thinking.
I really need to start using Bing. At least I expect fuck-all from Microsoft, so could rarely be disappointed... .
- Why does this bother you?face_melter
- Why in turn does my irritation bother you? I've catalogued my ire with G here already - this is just the cherry that makes me wonder if it's simply crap.detritus
- G touts itself as being some AI-driving wunderkind that can sort out our lives for us. If it can't work out wtf I am based on x years use, then it's just crap.detritus
- Whenever location services are enabled it doesn’t seem to have any issues that I’ve seen. I imagine they can pinpoint most people yikes.monospaced
- Detritus still thinks he's living in london with his make believe girlfriend, bless him. YOU'RE IN A HOME IN PITLOCHRY. YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 2 YEARS, REMEMBER?set
- I just learned golf apps can find your location accurately enough to tell you how many feet you are on the course from the hole. Kinda cool, kinda creepyformed
- COOKIES!imbecile
- Bing? DuckDuckGo.i_monk
- monNom4
Who buys a $1800 laptop that only supports a web-browser? These chrome-books boggle me.
- that much? damn!moldero
- that's the top spec, but still.monNom
- see it more as a iPad ProBennn
- I came here to post the same — it's a very pretty machine, but ... from any perspective I can think of, functionally useless.detritus
- Reading on HN, some are keen to insta-install Linux on it, which .. well, again, i don't understand. Just buy any computer and do the same?detritus
- Innovation never sleepsmonospaced
- chukkaphob2
Thousands of Google staff around the globe stage mass #MeToo walkout over tech giant's $90m payout to sex-pest executive plus a $14m loan to buy a beach estate in Japan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
- https://www.youtube.…lvl_13
- lolchukkaphob
- Leave Michael Keaton alone!_niko
- MICHEAL KEATON! LOLpango
- ^ Lmaokgvs72
- LOL @ Michael Keatonchukkaphob
- BTW, is he wearing the latest Google Glass styles?chukkaphob
- I just have to say that I'm crying at Michael Keaton comment :) :). Good job! :)Boz
- pablo28-2
Google is shutting down its beleaguered Google+ social network after it discovered a software bug in March that gave third-parties access to private user data, the company writes in a blog post.
- oh ... THAT's the reason? I suppose it had nothing to do with the fact nobody used it thenmonospaced
- great attempt at a Facebook alternative though, keep trying.fadein11
- i loved it. less poisonous than facebook and twitter but never used it.Hayoth
- i wanted it to be great. it was not.sarahfailin
- but it's interlinked with your youtube channel / user account. How's that gonna play out?shapesalad
- ^ They just have to eliminate that column and run a migration, nerd.Maaku
- no, I mean currently to change your youtube user name - you go to go to your google+ account and change it there. As it's linked.shapesalad
- Good riddance. Google+ sucked.NBQ00
- @shape - you go to google accounts to change info/passwords, it's not google+fadein11
- google suck. fuck 'em.hans_glib
- I wanted to love it, too. I'll cheer when Facebook finally meets its demise.formed
- I had it onceoey
- sarahfailin0
Google sent me a free Home Mini because I bought a Pixel 2.
...i imagine it's not good enough quality to use for music. if it works the same as my phone, why would I not just use my phone?
Should I sell this thing or try to take it to best buy for store credit before i open it?
hello wiretap?
- Imho, sell it. Sell it now.detritus
- I’d be getting suspicious if I got something for free from google. bury it in the backyard.pressplay
- wait a minute... almost every service from google is for free. I got to bury myself now...pressplay
- Got one too, if you're into the whole voice interface thing it's neat. You can have fun with it if you have a nest or a chromecast... I sometimes ask it tozarkonite
- google stuff, not terribly useful... yet.zarkonite
- it's designed to listen better than your phone, especially in an open area like your livingroom ... you don't need to be very close to it like with the phonemonospaced
- Best buy said I couldn't exchange it for store credit. ...jerks!sarahfailin
- give as a bday gift to someoneGnash
- ^best idea so far.sarahfailin
- ...someone you don't like.detritus
- if you own a phone you're already wiretapped. mess around with what it can do!scarabin
- i use those shits err'dayscarabin
- Sell it before it becomes sentient. Also absolutely do not give it a name!!pango
- lol pangomonospaced
- it's coming for your cock!!
https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- face_melter1
Trigger warning.
- The moral of this story is do not take a stanley knife to your phone, or try to bend it with all your might. I'll remember this.set
- Take note everyoneset
- lol at the DVsGnash
- The finger sensor being so easy to scratch is bad... esp if it renders it useless.zarkonite
- So everything Human build should be made of diamondBennn
- You can destroy pratically EVERYTHING around you with a cutter and your hand. Those videos are clickbaits.Bennn
- Why is there a 50p coin there if this guy is American? Or is that some generated voice?detritus
- As someone who hates to see waste, this was painful to watch.detritus
- Too right. Though at half a million views already he's making good money from it..set
- It may just be possible that one American lives in Englandset
- inconceivableimbecile
- I don't.
There's at least 40-odd.detritus - lol at Bennnnn. The sensor should be able to withstand punishment, esp. if it’s on the rear. They fucked it by not using ceramics.face_melter
- yuekit0
I have to agree with his point that the border around the screen doesn't look great compared with Samsung phones.
- Yeah, they are a little behind on the overall design. All so close, though, I'd have to see in person, might not make a difference.formed
- The case on my S8+ makes a border (please, please stop making all glass phones!)formed
- Phone bevel size is impressive to me like a really big DVD collection is.monospaced
- I dont understand the bezel-less hype... i really dont care about bezel.Bennn
- And no bezels means unintented pressing many times for people with lbig hands like meBennn
- Yea i think it's fine. Similar to my LG G6 which I'm massively impressed with. Not a big fan of the Samsung screens that curve round the edge..set
- Yeah down to personal taste I guess. I really like the edge to edge design, even the S7 Edge which was kind of ridiculous :)yuekit
- ugly front. I like the back though.inteliboy
- His review are banal and rote. He reads the spec sheet, takes some photos, and... that’s it. Using RED cameras in 4K. Pointless.face_melter
- Ordered the pixel 2 xl last night. It was that or the note 8 and I wanted software updates more frequently loltrooperbill
- drgs0
For those with gmail-accounts:
https://myaccount.google.com/pur…- ?Krassy
- Google keeps a list of things you buy even after you delete the emailsdrgs
- ah ok, mht ay list was empty; i've never bought anything using Google payKrassy
- do you delete e-mails?renderedred
- The purchases that showed up on mine weren't bought with Google Pay.PhanLo
- Yea, it does that
https://www.cnbc.com…drgs - Drgs what about your dildo collection?utopian
- Which one, strap-ons or cornbrator ones?drgs
- same as https://www.google.c…SlashPeckham
- 5 gal elmers glue. Hmm.timeless
- mg330
More Google / Android questions:
When you take photos, are they viewed in an app related to the camera, or do they go straight to Google Photos?
I'm currently copying over my iCloud photos library to Google Photos, trying to get most of my stuff situated before the phone comes later this month.
- Android apps work via permissions - you will be asked to allow your camera access to Google Photos, Contacts, Gmail etc.face_melter
- You can tailor where you want the pics to go - I guess with a Pixel they will go direct to Google Photos with the originals stored on the device.face_melter
- There normally a DCIM (?) folder which contains everything the camera takes. Android uses a folder structure so you can easily copy/move files around.face_melter
- If you're on a pixel then Google photos will be your default gallery app. Any other phone will have its own default appset
- I use the LG/Sony whatever phone I'm using's gallery app but download Google photos and have it back up every image I take/saveset
- That way I can delete stuff on my phone to keep it clean, save storage, wipe the OS etc but Google photos has everything backed upset
- You'll be able to 'delete from device' while still having it available on the cloudset
- Another great thing is that your phone shows up as a USB hard drive when plugged in to your computer, so you can just drag and drop stuff in and outset
- Without fucking with something like iTunes or the apple photo software I forget what it's called but remember how awful it wasset
- Recommend uploading your iTunes library to Google play tooset
- And import all your notes to Google Keepset
- I like the idea of drag and dropping files into a file structure on my phone. Old school and convenient.monospaced
- Yup, plugging in and getting immediate access is great. I can't do anything with my old ipad without updating and there's no space left.formed
- Which did you go for, XL or standard?craigatkinson
- Standard.mg33
- Dropping iTunes was the most complicated thing for me when I turned to Android. Now that I subscribed to Google Play Music, everything is A1Bennn
- mg334
This might be the thing that gets me to really consider stepping away from an iPhone. I'm a huge fan of Google's UI design and material design, and while it really isn't a thing to complain about, Apple just feels to be lacking the past few years in that department.
- and the camera is A1 on the PIXEL2 ;-) Waterproof tooBennn
- Yep. Funny how we gravitate to the camera aspects of phones more than the phone aspects! :Dmg33
- < cause we don't have to carry around that other camera with us everywhere now. Phone cameras are hella important and glad to see someone is listening.sea_sea