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Android Automotive OS is a blank slate for car manufacturers to customize and claim is their own creation, consumers will never know it exists.

It’s definitely not great, but considering one is for consumers and the other is explicitly not it’s not that bad.

Well yeah, it’s pretty common knowledge that all those cheap TV boxes running AOSP (not Android TV) are crap and should be avoided.

I like it. Not sure the search entry in the list needs to always be on screen but it’s fine.

Tablet sized screen when you want/need it, normal sized phone when you don’t, in your pocket all the time.

I think you mean “tri fold”.

This thing costs $2800…

That’s not how it works. Other apps (ironically including Google’s RCS implementation) use the Signal Protocol. Simply using it doesn’t magically make your app interoperable with every other app that uses it. And Apple would be the last company to go out of their way to make it work.

Nobody here is against open standards or FOSS apps. I am actually lucky/privileged enough to be able to write open source code for a living.

You seem to not understand the reality of the situation and that use case other than yours exist.

Huh? No it wouldn’t. If Apple implemented the Signal protocol they would still have to publish an iMessage app to the Play Store for Android users.

Call Google’s messaging app proprietary all you want but at least their implementation of RCS is E2E encrypted.

RCS is the wrong one to use

For you. I have relatives with iPhones I don’t talk to frequently but when we get together and somebody takes a group photo it’s annoying. Being able to just text a decent resolution photo without people needing to download an app is a win.

I’ll continue to use Signal with friends and family I talk to regularly.

This. They fucked up the one thing that made the original the best Foldable ever made IMO. Hopefully they get it right next year.