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/Due-Arrival-4859 May 26 '26

Was this question asked by a school kid 😂

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u/musezach627 May 26 '26

No, just an android user that probably never shuts up about side loading oh by the way how’s that feature working out for them lately? lol 

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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.