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Except Amazon's replacement sucks pretty hard. They are consistently multiple versions behind, and you can't even use applications like native YouTube.
by techntoke 8y ago
Except Amazon's replacement sucks pretty hard. They are consistently multiple versions behind, and you can't even use applications like native YouTube.
- zanny 8y agoOf course you can't use Youtube? Its a Google product. Its built ground up to depend on Play Services. That being said Youtubes mobile site isn't abysmal and I'm not a fan of how the last decade saw the open web replaced by proprietary apps. A lot of sites work fine in a browser on a phone but still push users to use an application to interact with them.
- a3n 8y agocough - LinkedIn - cough
- techntoke 8y agoFireOS on my Kindle Fire is still at Android version 5. Fortunately, I was able to install Google Play Services so that I didn't have to use the Amazon AppStore, however multiple profiles doesn't work well on the Kindle Fire. F-Droid is pretty awesome and the ADB toolset is pretty powerful too. I'd love to find a wrapper that just uses the core Android tools for management.
- int_19h 8y agoGoogle intentionally prevents YouTube from working well everywhere but in their walled garden. I sincerely hope they get slapped hard over this. You're not supposed to be able to abuse a monopoly like that. Your sentiment shows exactly why it's detrimental - because it's a major barrier to competition.
- techntoke 8y agoyoutube-dl works great so far with mpv.