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MagicMoonlight 21 days ago

And this is why androidlets will never win. They’re too busy selling your data to ever think of disabled people or usability.

iOS is just painfully good. I can pause a video, put my finger on text inside the video, and copy it. Until they added it, I didn’t even know how much I needed that.

lern_too_spel 21 days ago | parent | next [-]

Live captions has existed for more than 6 years on Android. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/on-device-captioning-with-...

Selecting text from anything displayed on the screen for more than 7 years. https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/165834/android-9-pie...

I guess if you knew people using Android, you would have known you needed it 7 years ago?

f33d5173 21 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Until they added it, you didn't need it, then suddenly a phone was unusable without it.

NicuCalcea 21 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I can do that on my Pixel 6.

LocalPCGuy 21 days ago | parent [-]

Features don't exist until Apple "invents" them /sarcasm