Re: is android becoming more restrictive?

Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Hi there, at OP, if android wants to become more like Iphone, they should start thinking of doing a better job with accessibility. hahaha URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/602167/#p602167 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? I do remember that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601790/#p601790 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @58Remember back in the day when Google's Android store was called the Android Market?That's why it dropped... I don't remember if there was a way to edit App Directory pages if you were a user.By the way, http://accessidroid.com/, is the site Jack

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @Devin: O fcourse they're not.They've secured thsmselves as top dog, or at least make it look as though they did. They've gotten more than enough press to give off that impression. But they're stagnating big time. ANd while this has been more than

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? What's this topic about again? Oh yeah, Android. Yeah, I think Google is starting to see Android as an actual money maker, and so of course would want to emulate Apple. Of course, they just won't emulate Apple's accessibility commitment. Although

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? i never said i baleve it. my grandma said it so now i can proov it isnt true URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601379/#p601379 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @53 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha That is a joke? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601366/#p601366 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? rings2006 wrote:off topic and sorry for it. but apparently apple and google are ownd by the same compiny. i have never herd this before and can find no proof os this. can i have an anser about it?Hahahahahahahahaha!@Rich_Beardsley: Dude. Pixel has

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? off topic and sorry for it. but apparently apple and google are ownd by the same compiny. i have never herd this before and can find no proof os this. can i have an anser about it? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601338/#p601338

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @51 is correct. you should of done your research before making posts like that. https://www.gsmarena.com/is a good place to read about phones. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601269/#p601269 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Only the budget models don't include it, as well as 2 and below. You could have found out all of this by doing some research, rather than making ill informed assumptions, BTW. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601186/#p601186

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Was there only one Pixel without it? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601183/#p601183 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? The Pixel4 also has wireless charging. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601154/#p601154 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Rich_Beardsley wrote:Well, if Samsung gets braille keyboard by the time I switch my phone, maybe. I just want wireless charging and braille keyboard. Those are my two main features. Pixel devices don't have wireless charging so I wouldn't go

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? If the newer pixels have wireless charging, maybe I'll get one when it's my upgrade time. Hopefully though, Samsung will listen to its users and bring back Braille Keyboard URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601144/#p601144 -- Audiogames

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? unfortunately that’s the way of the android world unless you want to flash custom ROMs for a while after that. I haven’t really heard of a phone that runs android that is supported for more than two/three years. Don’t quote me on this but I think

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Oh yeah it also has to be supported for a decent period of time. I don't want to upgrade every three years because my phone won't get the newest update. The only way I will get rid of my X is either if Apple stops pushing software updates

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? I'd imagine that's because plastic. I know my 3 does have it, as well as the 3XL and probably others. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601112/#p601112 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @41, which pixels do have it? My Pixel 3A doesn't. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601109/#p601109 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? At 35 what do you mean, jailbreaking? Depends on the version of iOS 6 you have installed, go check and then use google, you find everything there.Greetings Moritz. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601104/#p601104 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @39, wrong on both counts I'm afraid. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601102/#p601102 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? this is a joke? right... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601097/#p601097 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Well, if Samsung gets braille keyboard by the time I switch my phone, maybe. I just want wireless charging and braille keyboard. Those are my two main features. Pixel devices don't have wireless charging so I wouldn't go with one of those URL

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @25 Android is never going to get that closed. I did move the Sim from an iPhone 7 Plus to an Moto G Stylus. it is tided to the sim not the phone. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/601028/#p601028 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? as long as there are custom ROMS out there, I wouldn't worry about android and walls URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600984/#p600984 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @Ethin, that's only the fine print. My point was that regardless of what happens to the phone, if you have a sim, you're contract is still very much valid, and when you're due for a renewal, you'll be able to get 1 because the price for the phone

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? how do i do this with an ipod running ios 6 on windows. and that just shows its old right their URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600902/#p600902 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @32Yes, it's *fairly* safe.  But fairly comes with the caveat that it's entirely reasonable for whoever actually owns the phone to say "don't do this", it does void warranties, and there are unrecoverable states you can get iPhones into

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @32, if you haven't read the contract you can't say that for certain. You should verify that before you go believing that. I'd strongly guarantee there's something about the hardware in there. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600899/#p600899

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @31, not really. I mean, sure it can *technically* mess up the phone, a bit like how poring a kettle can technically go very badly wrong if you don't have good reaction times and / or a liquid level indicator or whatever. Or how making a teeny tiny

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? I just should point out that your mom isn't wrong on this one.  jailbreaking can definitely mess up the phone. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600860/#p600860 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @27, The phone is paid off, so it's not like I'd be voiding any warranties. But with some of the things I'd change, I think she'd notice. Also, with the iOS 14.3 checkra1n jailbreak, you can't have passcode and Face ID. If unc0ver comes out

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Yeah. I don't even know what to think of Fuchsia honestly, other than that Google is probably hoping to eventually get rid of some of the underlying parts of Android.  Android's beta-ness shows all over, so it's not surprising.  But also Google has

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? It happened, sort of. They're forking it and doing their own stuff with it now.Also @25, you do realize that short of actually checking your phone there's really no way she could know, right? + the bill only covers the sim inside the phone, as well

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? In all this fun stuff, let's not forget the enigmatic Fuchsia. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600843/#p600843 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? I thought Samsung was switching to normal Talkback entirely.  Did that not happen yet? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600840/#p600840 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? I don't even know if I'll switch to Droid at this point. No I didn't plan to upgrade any time soon since my current phone still works good, but if it becomes more restricted, what's the point? Also, since I would want Samsung, I would not have

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? yeah, but in order to do that with the GPL, you have to be big enough to have a legal department/resource that can maintain a CLA, or you just flat out say "sorry, no community contributions".I really like what they stand for

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? I like the FSF in far as promoting open source. But people should be allowed to sell open-source projects, or do the model where they have an open-source version but an enterprise version/paid version that's more featureful. It doesn't work

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? As long as there are different venders who have their own customizations along with what you can originally get with Google's stock android, it'll never be quite the walled garden Apple is. There will always be more choice. URL: https

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @18If you want something super super fun about the FSF, until 2015 or so, the official advice on how to make money for developing software up on their web site was to charge for distribution. On CDs.  That's now mysteriously missing without

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? According from what I've heard on the news, Huawei doesn't have no choice but to get out android on their phones, let alone Harmony OS do the job. I wonder about accessibility, of course. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600612/#p600612

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? interesting URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600599/#p600599 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Not going to try to match posts up, so:Trump put Huawei on a list of companies that can't use U.S. tech which, because of U.S. dominance in the semiconductor space, has basically crippled them as a company for the foreseeable future.The most common

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Linux phone, as in the Libre m5? Yeah. As much as I like the fsf as far as gpl goes, I can say iwth all due respect they absolutely suck at cost-benefit analysis. Their philosophy is don't use anything proprietary, even if the non-proprietary

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @14, I really want to know your evidence for how scoped storage is a bad thing. Your essentially saying that apps shouldn't be sandboxed and should be allowed to read/write any files on the system with only FS-level permissions -- which are very

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? then lets make are own? yeah probably not that easy. but i'm sure if we really really really wanted to we could get it done. i mean probably not sold but done and have to be installed over android type thing URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Google are butchering filesystem access at the moment, we just won't see the fallout from that until late 2021 when everyone is forced to target API level 30 and the scoped storage workaround goes away.The writing is on the wall at this stage

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? apparently. i was just as shocked as you when i learnd about it URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600584/#p600584 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? Linux phone? That's a thing? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600582/#p600582 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? now i wana know what trump did here. and so basicly orca knows about tuch but just has no gestures? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600571/#p600571 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @6I think that saying that Google wants Android to be free isn't really accurate in the slightest.  Maybe it was at one time, but my read on the situation is that they needed to be competitive with iOS so they rushed it out and made it free

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @7, Orca, kind of? Knows that touch screen exist. I've tried it. It's kind of like, "touch screen? What touchscreen? Oh you just touched where an item is though haahaha let's speak it!" URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/60056

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? i mean that conferms my question of if it is aware of tuch input. but also understandible about it being in its infincy. i guess. i mean maybe eventualy. and in a way i hope so that it will destroy android. but i prefer ios. but i also prefer

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @5: No. Orca won't work because its not aware of touch input. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600560/#p600560 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? @2, Huawei  has no choice but to not include Google tools considering what Trump did to them. They've pretty much been utterly destroyed in the competition arena, and unless that's undone including Google tools -- or, really, anything beyond

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? ok fair enough. but heree is the real question. is their a screen reader for linux phones. and are their even any out yet URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600558/#p600558 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? The Linux phones aren't going to matter for a long, long time if ever, just saying.  Android the operating system is free, it's just a bunch of stuff around the Google apps that's involved enough that it gives me a headache which gives Google power

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? well linux phone might be killing android phones off so we will see what happends URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/600556/#p600556 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: is android becoming more restrictive? With all the main phone companies making there own OS skins, it's probably looking that way.Huawei  and Samsung both do it, and I think on some Huawei  phones they don't come with google play services so you're quite limited in apps you can

is android becoming more restrictive?

is android becoming more restrictive? recently I’ve been hearing about how android is becoming somewhat of a walled garden like Apple has been. Is what everyone saying true? Is android just going to be another version of the iPhone in newer versions? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post