There's clearly an attitude of "we know what you want better than you" at google right now that can be seen by the ridiculous shit coming out of Gemini. This is why their search has been getting so bad. They make a lot of assumptions of what you want, where it used to just give you what you were asking for
Gemini is emblematic of why Google products suck now
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Yep, they really have taken an nosedive since they went diversity hires. I've had a Fitbit for years and they've destroyed it. Probably going with a competitor next time, which will be within a year because Fitbit only lasts for a year, get replacement from warranty and then replacement dies. I was going to do a writeup on why Google destroyed Fitbit but lost motivation.
They've always shoved changes down your throat, but Gemini is so frickin bad it's a joke. Same with Fitbit.
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Pixel iterations also keep getting shittier
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The problem is that most people don't look beyond Apple or Samsung, especially on the US market. Instead of trying to make a better/equally good but cheaper phone, companies are trying to carve a niche, but it's not working all that well - Sony or Google just can't offer anything compelling. Only tiny portions of the market care about dumb niche features.
Just look at this shit, beyond the first three brands it's dire, even the chinkshit like Oppo, Vivo, Huawei or Realme are carried heavily by asian nations, where they're marketed a lot and mostly sell cheaper phones resulting in lower ASP and profits.
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It seems insane to me that Motorola/Lenovo has a higher market share than Google in American phones.
That's what graphs are showing me but idk how I can believe it.
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Lenovo is sneakily integrating itself into US markets. It's better value than pretty much any other quality brand. You see it a lot in corporate settings now over Dell.
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talkin bout cellphones tho
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Thinkpads remain goated compared to all competitors besides Apple, yes. Their success with the motorola brand is harder to explain though. I haven't paid attention recently but aren't most of the moto androids either really cheap or really niche?
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My graph is worldwide if you're talking about that, though it sounds like you're looking at other ones that are US specific.
I could believe it, Motorola has good market presence and IMO the best brand name phones in the budget category, and they probably have good deals with carriers.
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Nah I just Googled it
This was the chart it pulled up
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/us-smartphone-market-share/
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IR blasters and tiny hdmi ports were the 2 things I wished stuck around
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Xiaomi phones almost all have IR blasters I think, other chinese brands do too. HDMI not really, but you can get video out of USB-C port on some phones.
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I was thinking about getting a Xiaomi but it was actually cheaper to get a lightly used pixel off ebay
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I don't like their software tbh, had one phone and one tablet, the hardware is probably the best you can get for the price, but I ran into software issues. I'm okay dealing with them but I wouldn't recommend it to a complete normie.
I guess I'm trying to say you're not missing out on much.
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Any tablet recommendations? I want to avoid samsung because they abandoned the last tablet I got after 1 update and basically rendered the thing a paperweight
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Tablet updates are probably gonna suck on everything Android, I'm afraid. Expect at most 1 Android version on top of what it releases with, and a few years of security updates.
IDK what your market and needs are, hard to give you a specific model.
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I have an older Fitbit (Inspire 2) and hate it.
All I need is a clock, step counter, and vibration when I get texts.
It was supposed to be an upgrade from my Inspire 1, adding a much-needed water lock.
Turns out they put two capacitive sensors on the sides instead of a physical button. Normally that'd be ok, but simply bending your wrist is enough to touch both sides and wake it up.
So whatever, turn water lock on so it can't do anything. Whoops, the "tap to unlock" relies on the accelerometer rather than touch sensation. As a result, any rhythmic tapping (such as clapping or using a hammer) will unlock it.
I turned off all the fitness-related stuff. Despite that, it'll randomly start vibrating and displaying fireworks and CONGRATS, 150 OF SOMETHING 🎉🎉🎉. I don't know what. I can't find any setting to turn it off. It would also do Active Zone Minutes because apparently they think a person can't tell when they're working up a sweat.
Just count my steps, send it to the insurance, and vibrate when I get a peepeepic. That's all I'm asking for. I wanted something relatively small and inexpensive because it's going to get rubbed against concrete walls and shit at work.
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They actually got rid of the touch thing in the newer ones, but I know what you're talking about. Also, water resistance doesn't work for me. I noticed that it always breaks when I go in the pool with it.
I use it for metrics and running stats. I'm not a fast runner, but sometimes I try to beat my time. Lately, I've been doing "running" (if you can call it that lol) in my house because of the cold. Fitbit would pick up on my indoors running in place and would estimate steps based on swing of the arm. Google's diversity hire programmers still try to use GPS and have me running up and down my block so now estimated mile time is totally fricked where Fitbit would at least give me a close estimate.
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Hopefully converting the video will let it work. Videos and pictures taken on a Pixel piss off Cloudflare for some reason
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I have a garmin vivosmart 5 and I like it. As a bonus the Garmin app has basically all the features of the "premium" fitbit app but there's no premium subscription or anything, you just buy the device and that's it
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Garmin is what I was looking at! My only procrastination motivation was all my stats are on Fitbit since 2018 so I'm starting over. They've fricked up the Fitbit interface and programming so badly that it's worth switching.
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I would read that write up
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