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I've used Android Auto for years on different Pixels but I've never seen a "safety break". Maybe it's the car?

The only thing we've learned today is that Apple's lawyers are far better than Google's...

Since you have a Pixel maybe try changing the call screening settings?

Sounds like a really hacky, probably insecure, solution that Apple will likely "accidentally" break with an innocuous software update.

Irresponsible reporting. The app couldn't be installed because the min API version of the app didn't meet the requirements for Android 14.

Google didn't "block" anything, this is fear mongering.

Good. Android 6 came out in 2015 and 98.4% of devices in use now are at or above that level.. The only reason developers would have to target an API level that low in 2024 is to exploit something.

I don't really get why the M8 is remembered so fondly but the M7 isn't.

Is it just that way more people bought the M8? The M7 was truly innovative and the M8 was only a small iteration on top.

The app isn't enabled by default so stock Pixels aren't even vulnerable without physical access to an unlocked device.

Nope, Moto is 8th.

According to IDC, the top three smartphone brands last year were Apple (20.1%), Samsung (19.4%), and Xiaomi (12.5%). 

Moto only has 4% market share currently...

It's not an assumption. They obviously have telemetry that shows the vast majority of people never turn Bluetooth or WiFi off.

Why is it a deal breaker? Synthetic benchmarks don't mean anything. The real world experience of using a Pixel is faster/smoother.

The UI strings make it pretty clear this is an option the user can choose.

It probably wasn't reported. I'd wager the percentage of devices with multiple profiles (that doesn't include Android for work) is probably very small.

Yes, worst clickbait title I've seen in a while. Health Connect was announced 2 years ago...

It’s not clear why Google wants to do this, but one theory is that it’ll run some workloads more optimally and securely than microdroid.

Microdroid is a "Parallel Virtual Machine". The idea is to offload part of the responsibility of an app to this VM so that it can execute in an environment that is more secure than what Android can guarantee.

So nobody knows why but (in typical Fuchsia fashion) it probably isn't something a consumer would even know or care about.

Huh? Google was an AI company 10 years ago...

Qualcomm has announced that it's working on a RISC-V chipset for Wear OS

Most car manufacturers are giving up on their shitty in-house UI's in favor of Android Auto and Car play because that's what customers actually want. There is momentum and companies love taking advantage of it.

CES is also happening right now so there are a lot of car announcements.

Aren't there a bunch of improvements for foldable devices?

Also, there are a lot of security and privacy changes forced on developers when targeting API 34 that will help protect end users without them knowing.

Try tapping the app icon on the app switcher screen.

This is a feature the app developer has built-in/opted into. There probably isn't anything you can do to disable it.

Huh? This is a hardware successor to the 2020 "Chromecast with Google TV". This device will support casting. Casting isn't going anywhere...

You seem to be misinformed about what's actually happening here. If there is a super old app you need you can still install it via adb.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the play store and its requirements. This is about preventing malware (which is typically written to target super old API levels to exploit things that weren't patched yet) from being installed unknowingly by the user.

The design here is good. If you are tech savvy enough to use adb you can install anything you want. But this protects somebody that mistakenly thinks they are installing something safe from accidentally infecting their device.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that this will inevitably make batteries smaller.

If you are supposed to be able to open the phone and remove the battery manufacturers need to design a way to remove the cover, shield other components, create a compartment for the battery, and use sturdier batteries. All of those things take us space. Manufacturers aren't just going to make phones thicker so that physical space has to be eaten by something... and it's going to be the battery.

I really liked having a removable battery on my phone 10 years ago in case I had a particularly long/intensive day. But now that I make it through a day without worry this could actually be sorta annoying.

This. These sites have said anti-Pixel articles far and away get the most clicks so they keep writing them.

Yes. I went to my first Google I/O 10 years ago and my second today.

2014: Introduced Android L, Android Wear, Android TV and Android Auto.

2024: Gemini Nano... still not publicly available to app developers. 💀

This is a weird hit piece where the author has all the facts but seems to just not understand them...

The TL;DR (that we knew months ago) is the 8GB of ram in Pixel 8 isn't enough to run the Gemini Nano LLM on device, the 12GB of ram in the 8 Pro is actually needed.

Again, strange to call this a "fail" when Google is the first and only company to really do this and never claimed it was coming to the 8. This is the bleeding edge, of course it only runs on highest spec hardware.

I mean no disrespect, this is a genuine question: at this point why limit yourself to HomeSeer hardware when Home Assistant has become so user friendly to setup and configure?

I'd agree if it wasn't a notification channel you could simply disable.

Uh huh... The Oxford definition literally says that's untue.

of or involving sound waves with a frequency above the upper limit of human hearing

Who cares. Play Services backwards compatibility for new Android APIs and security updates being separated from the OS make this irrelevant.

Again, this has literally nothing to do with the play store. This is API 22 and below we are talking about here... you can't even find apps that target API levels below 30 on the play store today afaik lol.

Keep in mind this isn't the minimum supported version, it's the target/compile version which is typically pretty trivial to update. 99.9% of users in 2024 will never need to install an app that targets a version of Android released 10 years ago.

That isn't the same feature. What you show replaces the person's face with the same person's face from a different photo in a burst/similar shot. That feature is called "Best Take".

The article is saying magic eraser won't draw a new face from nothing.

Security-wise that is significantly worse. Google Pay generates a random card number per transaction and isn't active when the phone is locked.

I keep my credit cards in an NFC blocking sleeves because the passive NFC can't be turned off. Someone could literally bump into you and cause a transaction.

One thing I enjoy is buying cheap xiaomi smart home products and completely cutting them off from the internet.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but from a security and privacy perspective I can't imagine buying a phone from them.

Then you are fine. Marshmallow, API level 23, is the minimum. This would be a problem if it targeted API 22 or lower.

That is exactly like saying having a separate deadbolt on your door is adding another attack vector...

Most of the reason I wear a smartwatch is to prevent me from pulling my phone out. If I can avoid doing that and know I'm still on the (sometimes poorly marked) trail it's a win.

Rumor is this one (the G4) is the last one based on exynos. G5 is allegedly completely custom and uses TSMC fab.

I think he is referring to the rumors that the Tensor G5 (not the G4 releasing year) will be a complete redesign built on TSMC's 3nm instead of Exenos.