Android Help Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 28 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread! |
- Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 28 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread!
- Pixel 4a barely blue back in stock
- Roland Quandt - "Might have been said before (haven't been on the line for a week): Galaxy A52 cam specs: 64 MP 81°, 0.8 µm, OIS / 12 MP 123°, 1.12 µm / 5 MP macro 78°, 1.12 µm / 5 MP depth 85°, 1.12 µm. Yes, 4G = 90 Hz, 5G = 120 Hz screens. Both 800 cd/m2 max brightness. Samsung's in it to win"
- Which manufacturer updates its phones the fastest: Android 11 edition
- Huawei Mate X2 hands on
- We need a more precise volume controller.
- Google to be renamed "Premium" in the new year...
| Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 28 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:00 AM PST Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:
Rules 1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer. 2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars. 3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Pixel 4a barely blue back in stock Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:25 PM PST
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| Which manufacturer updates its phones the fastest: Android 11 edition Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:17 AM PST
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| We need a more precise volume controller. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:22 AM PST This always happens to me: it's late and I want to listen to some music or watch a video, i lower the volume but it's too low, i manually turn it up but it's too loud. We should be able to have the choice of using the volume level we want, it's not useful to be able to drag the controller if it doesn't have a real purpose besides turning it up or down faster. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Google to be renamed "Premium" in the new year... Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:05 AM PST While the title of this post/rant was made in jest, I wonder how far off from the truth I really am. Like many out there, I too have become mired in the ecosystem that Google has fostered. What once was a simple search engine has become a place where we spend a good amount of not only our time but money as well. We have become increasingly dependent on their services, whether it be the consumption of media they provide or the housing of that which we produce. It is the latter which prompted this post. Google use to be about freedom. They offered Google Play Music as an alternative to iTunes, a place to house your music collection and listen to it anywhere for free. They promoted Google Photos as the repository for all of our visual memories, secure forever in a digital format safe from the ravages of time. Youtube was lauded as a place to upload ourselves to educate, entertain or opine. Then came the rebranding. When I first heard that Google Play Music would be retired and replaced by YouTube Music I thought "Hey, it makes sense. YouTube is a more recognized brand." But with it also came something called YouTube Music Premium. Again I thought "Sure, they wanna make money and Google Play Music also had a pay to play option". Still not much changed besides the name. I first noticed something amiss when I looked into what the premium subscription got you. Sure there was the expected access to a vast library of music. But I also noticed they would offer background/screen off playback, both of which I used heavily with Google Play Music. No longer would I be able to turn off my screen during my works or browse Reddit while listening to some tunes. Thankfully my uploads weren't subject to these restrictions and that is what I mostly listened to anyway. Again still not that big a deal. My next bit of irritation came when I went to stream my music on my Google Home speaker. I, like many, enjoyed listening to music while doing other things. One of these things was showering. I found that even with the shower going full blast, the speaker would still pick up my commands and let me rock out to my library. You can imagine my surprise when, after the change over, rather than be greeted with sweet guitar riffs and rock ballads I was instead slapped with "That action requires a YouTube Music Premium subscription". What the deuce! I was angry. One of the few things I regularly used my Google speaker for was now off limits, even from my own library! I eventually found a work around, using my Google speaker as via Bluetooth from my phone. It was an annoyance for sure but not necessarily a deal breaker. That came when I tried to download music from my library for offline play on my smartwatch. Again the dreaded "YouTube Music Premium subscription required" pop-up. Bloody hell! To say I was livid would be an understatement. Not the least of which was because the vast majority of my library was purchased during my time with Google Play Music. Imagine buying a CD, taking it home, putting it in the player, hitting play only to be told you need a subscription to continue listening. To music YOU ALREADY PAID FOR! I wasn't about to give Google more of my money. Thankfully Google gave me the option to download all of my data from Google Play Music and I did that well in advance of the deadline to do so. Google Photos is another story. When Google launched the service five years ago, it got high praise for allowing near unlimited storage, albeit at lower resolution. The service became such an integral part of the Android platform that many phone manufacturers did away with their own gallery apps. I myself would regularly free up the space on my phone, safe in the knowledge my precious memories were safe. Sadly the era of unlimited is over. Google announced that starting this June, all photos and video, regardless of resolution, will count toward the 15 gb of free storage provided by Google Drive. Google gave estimates of how long it would take to fill up that amount of space. But in the age of Instagram and TikTok, I have a feeling those power users will find themselves having to pony for more space. For a fee of course. The lone hold out thus far has been YouTube proper. Since it's inspection, it has been supported by ads. We have become conditioned to hit the skip button or "No Thank You" when asked if we want to try Premium. How long though before Google decides there is an opportunity for them to bilk even more out of their audience? Just to humor myself, I looked into going premium. I thought it might be worth it to pay a little more a month for ad free YouTube or unlimited music streaming. What I found irked me further. Not only are we asked to pay a premium rate but we are asked pay for it twice. Yup, you heard right. YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium are considered two separate subscriptions. Talk about double dipping. I know that at the end of the day, Google is a business and businesses need to make money. Had they been more forth coming with the eventual costs, however, we might not find ourselves in so deep. But that is what they counted on: we became so entrenched that we have no other choice but to pay. Again and again. But we are also to blame. We handed Google the keys to the kingdom. Now we have to pay to get back in. I know some will chalk it up to that is just how things work and we have to accept it. I just fear we may be headed down a path towards our digital lives, such a major part of our real ones, becoming locked away, only accessible for a "Premium". [link] [comments]  |
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