I take it you weren't around for the Nexus 7 (first edition)?
Not for me :)
I'm not in the beta, and this is what my WhatsApp looks like now. This might be old news, but until today I had the green UI.
(Sorry for the crappy censor job. I wish Android had a blur feature built-in)
That isn't new, that's how ad networks work. Google owns one of the largest ad networks.
Viewed posts still don't hide when you refresh :(
It will take years before you see more niche communities like that.
Great news.
However, I've become partial to having separate accounts across various instances. Sync enforces having separate settings for each account. I can see this becoming pretty annoying. Does anyone else feel this way?
Nothing beats Google Photos for me, personally.
So I bought a used Google Pixel 1 (first gen) and use Syncthing to sync my camera roll from my phone to the Pixel 1.
Google originally advertised the Pixel 1 as having unlimited cloud storage for life, so they have to stick to it. I don't pay for Google storage but I've got at least 500gb stored in Google Photos (including all my RAW photos and my digitised VHS tapes).
I'll abuse this system until the Pixel 1 dies and I can't get another one, then I'll cry.
Anyone else noticed that Connect for Lemmy has just changed its design? Feels like it's taken a lot of "inspiration" from Sync...
I wouldn't have any expectations of an iOS release, mate.
The bar for Lemmy apps is going to be raised significantly higher once this releases. What we have currently is ok, but there UI/UX of Sync is so much better.
That's a legit issue with these federated social media sites. The whole idea is to avoid one entity having too much power, but it splinters the discussions and the communities in a way that inhibits them.
How do we know a better gaming discussion isn't happening some place else?
How does a company interact with fans and grow its brand without spamming every single gaming community on the fediverse?
Not sure what the solutions are, but maybe that's the point? We're trying to usher in the older days of internet communities. Smaller, closer forums.
I miss ten years ago, when Googlers jumped out of a plane whilst in a Google Glass video call and landed straight into IO. Yeah it was a gimmick, but it got us all talking.
I miss when Android was less mature and had a lot of catching up to do, and IO was the delivery of all the exciting enhancements coming to Android.
It's hard to get excited when the biggest announcements this year will be... "We made our AI better, buy our phone and you'll be able to use it".