I didn't know about the dialer/Google Meet integration, that's a pretty smart move. The messages app being labeled "Android Messages" was also a surprise, I don't know any other brand that uses this exact messenger. Maybe the point they're trying to bring across there is that texts are just as good as iMessage?
It all feels pretty close to native though the web UI is still a lot choppier than the real UI. For any real UI demo you'd probably need an app rather than a web app, but I don't think Apple would allow such an app on the app store.
I'm not sure why Samsung is trying so hard with the ads, though. I get it, you really like the New And Exciting Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Plus, you don't have to repeat it every other screen. I'm also not sure why they've gone all in on these influencer videos, the acting in them is so obvious it made me cringe. Is this what American ads look like?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=try+galaxy
From this search I also learned this used to be called "iTest" 2 years ago.
Probably the config for HAProxy is set a little bit low or something.
But try again now. And then try again a little bit later if it continues to not load.
People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for" (i.e., give money, personal data, and free promotion to). People who often act as if they have an appropriately suspicious view of corporations in just about any other interaction, come out boldly declaring that this company or that company is GREAT when it comes to privacy, or consumer choice, or <fill in the blank>.
One of the strongest and most consistent weaknesses of human psychology is the effect "flags" have on otherwise reasonable minds.
That's Marcus Aurelius in the ”Meditations" talking about supporting teams at the chariot races and gladiator fights. It seems very human to get all tribal about something subjective and inconsequential. Ancient Rome had the same fanboyism, just in a different arena.
(I have a phone that just runs Alpine Linux, but I know better than to try and tell anyone about it.)
What about people who hate their overlord?
> (I have a phone that just runs Alpine Linux, but I know better than to try and tell anyone about it.)
I wish you would! That sounds interesting!
> I have a phone that just runs Alpine Linux, but I know better than to try and tell anyone about it.
What phone is this?
(Love the aside at the end ... seriously, though, Aurelius had an incisive eye, his writings have great value and much to teach just about anyone ...)
Isn’t this a bit dramatic? It’s a demo to which people are replying with their preferences. Some fly flags, but most debate features and priorities.
So yeah, people tend to fall in line under a flag through a lifetime of indoctrination and threat of financial or physical violence...
In any case, at this point in human history especially, I'd argue it's time to consider "the group" to be ALL humans - "by default". There are nuances, and I'm out of time for commenting further right now, but, that's my take on it.
Hopefully, this comment is of some use to you / someone / etc. - hope y'all have a great day!
I always was an Android user until that iPhone, I had it for about a year, and switched back to Android again because I thought I was missing some stuff, but I was wrong, I don't miss a thing of current Android, I think current iOS is simply smoother and more fun to use, and stutter free 95% of the time.
I haven’t actually sat down and compared specs but I’m guessing this happens because Android devices tend to skimp hard on their GPUs at midrange and below.
It also makes me wonder if an Android “container” could run as an app on an iPhone. Maybe sideloading leads to that?
From a technical standpoint, I suppose it's possible, but you'd be stuck with a very barebones Android system without all the system daemons for notifications and such. You'll also need to write some kind of EGL-to-Metal driver to get decent graphical performance out of it.
Seeing how far Anbox and Windows' Android implementation have come, I do wonder if it's possible to take an Android app, stick it into an emulator, and bundle that as an .ipa for use on iOS and macOS. It would certainly make porting easier.
I believe it's a stretch to say that Apple has the best privacy experience in the market, unless you believe Apple's marketing pitch on "privacy" verbatim. I think the best privacy on a smart phone today is likely GrapheneOS. Apple has sold it's users on privacy, but in actuality Apple is a for profit platform that has, and will, target it's users data as it needs to delight it's shareholders. For example ATT has issues [0], there's a class action against them [1], and it's hard to take them seriously when there's concern from a number of other angles [2]. A walled garden doesn't imply security and that's how Apple sells "privacy".
[0] https://publicknowledge.org/apples-privacy-promises-are-unde... [1] https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/09/apple-privacy-tracking-lawsui... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/23/apple-use...
I don't think this site will be very convincing, there are a lot of glitchy animations and unresponsive areas that look as if they should be working.
You'll find older folks leave it basically default. If you hide some of the ugly samsung app icons, it instantly improves tenfold.
That being said, I only have a samsung because the s22 is the smallest flagship you can buy.
It's interesting that they're using Safari's “add to Home Screen” feature so they can use fullscreen. I think that might be why that's the only browser which is supported.
They're just detecting "add to Home Screen" by looking for window.navigator.standalone which you can manually set using a breakpoint.
Kind of annoying, I was wondering what Samsungs's phone UI looks like these days but I guess they don't want my money. Samsung's marketing department can be weird like that for no well explained reason.
Edit: found out that Kiwi browser allows access to the Chrome extension store and to the Chrome dev tools so I got it to work despite all of Samsung's best efforts.
i have found some win32 emulators mostly for j2me development, but not those ui emulators.
would be fun to have them again!
Actually generalize that: Depending on your exact threat models, this is a great way to have data that can't be lost or stolen just because your device is.
For a large enough app it's probably less data intensive, not to mention much faster, to run the app in a cloud data center where it has effectively unlimited bandwidth, and just stream a video of it over a smaller network connection to the phone.
Creating virtual phones in cloud is probably an easy way to create a lot of them, which allows you to do things like run untrusted apps in complete isolation without access to any of your data or other applications.
For making me glad that I use an iPhone once again.
After scanning the code this happens:
1) Hey! Please copy this page URL and open it in Safari!
I open it in safari
2) Hey! Please add this to your home screen!
sigh...I add it to home screen and open it
3) Now I'm greeted with mandatory 5-10 seconds long UI tutorial
4) Finally I can start using it
This is exactly why I use iOS despite Apple being asshole company. After I scan the code I want end result IMMEDIATELY. No bullshit. I don't wanna press 20 buttons and change browsers, add stuff to homescreen etc.
Next time open it right away in whatever browser I choose to use and then add additional option: "Hey! Wanna get a full screen experience? Add this to your iOS homescreen in Safari and try out. Click here to start!"
Then it'll say you're already on Samsung..
(I'd like to see that it looks like too.)
(I prefer android to iOS but Samsung has never been a good choice. Only pixel was. Too much preloaded shit on Samsung phones that you cannot get rid of, like Bixby and 4-6 social media apps du jour)
After changing to Desktop mode it asks to add it to the home screen. I’ve add it and then launch it and, of course, the web app uses Desktop mode Safari and doesn’t work at all, showing the qr code.
Well done, Samsung!
Even if I emulate the user-agent of an iPhone, it needs me to run it from the homescreen.
- open developer tools, Toggle device toolbar, pick an iPhone dimension
- Network > More network conditions ("wifi" icon) > User-agent > Custom > "iPhone Safari"
- in Sources, set a breakpoint on the 1st line, refresh the page, when the debugger breaks, type "window.navigator.standalone = true" in the Console, and continue
Since this is -I guess- a project made for fun, it would nice to open source it, so we can learn from it. Maybe then, we can make the opposite project, TryiOS.com
I know that it’s possible to do (better) but fact is most web developers don’t (or can’t?). Even VS Code, the prime example of how good Web Apps can be always reloads the page of an extension when you switch the tab and go back. Don’t get me started on MS Teams which is just horrible to use
I'm not sure what the point of trying it is if you already know beforehand that you're going to hate it.
So yeah, they couldn’t even make it proper, which reinforces my belief.
