Been looking to replace my Watch 3 in the next few years. Feels like Samsung hasn’t done anything meaningful with their newer watches to truly replace this one, and have genuinely started eyeing the OnePlus watches instead for actually doing at least something new
Honestly to a certain extent I think being decentralized is somewhat beneficial. Perhaps it’s just the fact I’ve been visiting forums for like 20 years and feeling jaded, but I never liked that any knuckle dragger could easily make an account and act like an ass.
It’s not a very high bar to clear to figure out how to sign up for lemmy, so if you can’t even figure that out, maybe it’s for the best to help prevent polluting the user pool. If you’re gonna be an ass, you should at least have to work for it.
I mean half the reason too is just that existing group texts don’t just auto transition to RCS even if everyone supports it.
I literally have to delete and recreate a group to make it trigger, but then I lose all those texts and my family gets confused because now there’s 2 group chats so half the time they don’t use it anyways.
Absolutely terrible bucks to bucks ratio. Abysmal.
Words cannot describe how much I hate that quick settings panel. One UI was supposed to be about reachability with how big phones are getting these days. Instead they used the whole screen this go around. Hope Good Lock will let me change it back eventually
I feel like I remember then announcing this like 4+ years ago? I mean good it finally released, I’m just shocked how long it took
And burns through twice as much energy!
I’m still curious to see if they go through with the rumors that it’ll be subscription based. Honestly kinda dead in the water for me versus just a watch if so
Still really curious to find out if the rumors of it being a battery hog are true. I was set on finally upgrading my Note 20 Ultra to an S25 Ultra, but not if battery life is a mess
What annoys me is that Google still hasn’t opened the API for RCS all these years later. That could at the very least open the possibility of more widespread adoption as a fallback for other apps instead of SMS. But instead they’re too busy crying that Apple won’t adopt it to actually be bothered to make a unified approach on their own turf. I don’t see how they can imagine Apple will want to adopt it when they’re keeping it so close to their chests that nobody else is allowed to use it other than basically them and Samsung. It’s maddening.
Hey that’s great. Don’t care though. What are the efficiency improvements like? Or are there none?