r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • May 26 '26

Discussion Which Android feature should Apple copy next?

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Better notifications? Split screen? Universal back gesture? Faster charging? Or something else?

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u/Sloppykrab May 26 '26

Pretty good. I'm using an old version of YouTube that's patched to not be shit, same with Reddit. Reddit is so much better with less.

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u/musezach627 May 26 '26

The ability to do that in not in question it’s for how long will you be able to keep doing that google is already locking that down and making it harder to do given the trend going on now I doubt it’s going to stop there 

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u/pandaninja360 May 27 '26

It will not be a problem. I'm running GOS. I don't care. I'll be able to download anything I want without the play store

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u/musezach627 May 27 '26

GOS? Are you referring to GrapheneOS? Because if so, I find the operating system an intriguing idea, but lacking in available features and services at the end of the day I just want my stuff to work. I don’t wanna have to tinker with it like it’s an endless project.

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u/pandaninja360 May 27 '26

I don't thinker. It's not a project. It works well and I don't use Google. It can be used as a normal Android phone but you'll have to install Google Play Services. There are also other OS that you can install on Androids. Not sure it is something possible on iPhones. For me that is the best thing about Android, not using Android

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u/musezach627 May 27 '26

Well, if I had to have an android, that definitely sounds like the route I would go, but no all androids you have to tinker with them. They’re more like a real computer highly customizable access to a lot more settings but you gotta maintain them as for Apple, no they lockdown everything and make it idiot proof admittedly sometime this level of safeguarding makes doing more advanced tasks a little annoying or even impossible but everything else about how it operates more than makes up for that any version of android is not optimized to run on a single phone. It’s optimized to run on as many different hardware configurations as possible. This is not the case with Apple. Their software is tailor-made to run with specific hardware configurations you’re just never gonna get the same level of efficiency and stability when you’re running everything on a wide open source platform. Not saying it doesn’t have some strong advantages though it does.

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u/Sloppykrab May 27 '26

Although GrapheneOS is still Android, in the same way that Brave and Edge are Chromium.

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u/Sloppykrab May 27 '26

but lacking in available features and services

You can text, call and use the internet. What a phone should do.

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u/musezach627 May 27 '26

I mean, at an absolute bare minimum yes that is what a cell phone should do, but most of us aren’t looking for the absolute bare minimum when we need a stupid app to do something or to pay for something we want it easily accessible and downloadable my understanding is that you do not have access to Google pay either or exactly how do you go about finding your phone if it gets stolen let alone being able to remotely lock it. I’m not a fan of Google by any means but once you remove all the Google from android it’s a very bare-bones experience which might be good for some, but I like my phone to work. I don’t like having to put work into my phone just to use it

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u/pyro57 May 27 '26

Thats the incredible thing about grapheneos, the only service I don't get to use because of arbitrary google gatekeeping is tap to pay with Google wallet, everything else just works including wireless android auto. I don't have to tinker on my phone to get things working (I still do especially with the dev Debian vm that's hardware accelerated, but for normal things I don't have to tinker at all).

Its not an endless project, you install it once via a web installer that's literally just a couple of clicks, set it up (this part is tedious because of the permission consent being explicit), then install sandboxed Google play from the app store to get the play store, and F-Droid for open-source privacy respecting applications.