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dude, people wonder why i shit on android constantly, why would you ever produce a product that can just, do shit like this, it's awful. (to be clear, i hate IOS as much, for the same reasons)
And its only worse with manufacturer flavors of android, samsung loves shipping a bunch of useless apps that you can't even remove.
and no, i don't want to hear about rooting. Just call me when you guys figure out how to make an actual OS.
Your negativity sucks but at least it's not targeted at anyone. It's just souring people's moods.
the negativity sucks, but android is frankly, deserving of it, especially with how much better IOS is now than it used to be.
Android only implemented MDNS in android 12, OS wide (the only useful implementation of it) a literal decade after microsoft added it to windows
mounting shit like an SMB share is literally impossible, unless rooted. Because fuck you, why would you ever want to mount remote storage on a device known for having super expensive storage, or really shitty storage.
It's customizable, if all you want to customize is the homescreen, because the lockscreen isn't trivially customizable.
it's also a google product, so it comes with the really cool feature of being terrible.
Oh and if you wanted to install apps on the playstore, they're also all shit. Most of them are paid, and the rest are either ad filled, or malware. Cool, i'll just use fdroid then. Oh wait it's just a glorified APK installer...
not to mention androids nonsense file structure and partitioning done by default, as well as it's wonderfully obtuse .NOMEDIA standard, that doesn't seem to work properly, and doesn't fucking implement anywhere.
the ram management is also fucking horrid, seeming to only unload apps entirely, but arguably that's more of a problem with apps taking literal gigabytes of ram to load fucking text on the screen just so you can read someone making a your mom joke.
People talk constantly about how amazing the technical leap from PDP11s to iphones was, yet we seem to be regressing in the software space faster than germany during the hitler arc and it fucking baffles me how.
Whats wrong with fdroid? Glorified apk installer. Ye...es? What else should an app store do?
fundamentally, it's an app doing something the platform it's built on doesn't allow it to do, nor was it designed for.
In terms of the app, it's literally a shoehorned app store, and it's somehow better than the play store. How do you fuck up the playstore that badly? The bar is so low that a software repository that "technically" works is literally the bare minimum. Most of that is arguably the fault of android, because it's the single worst operating system in the world, apparently.