Well, there is a separate system for pirating prevention, the Google Play license check. That has existed for years.

According to the article, that's due to more features and more updates.

I think the only thing that should be right is the price.

Everything else - form factor, thickness, aspect ratio, whatever - can and should be experimented with, and nothing will break because the apps adapt anyway.

Well, unless they are unoptimized for tablets in general, which most are...

Honestly, I'm shocked there aren't way more. We have the Google Store, Samsung Store, Amazon store and...that's it?

There are plenty of repositories for F-Droid, and from what I've heard, also for Aptoide.

That said, it is not really beneficial for most companies to compete with Google Play since they know the user base will be smaller, user experience will be worse (install warnings, no auto-update), and people may get affected by malware if they don't pay attention to where they are downloading things from (may download a scam app directly instead of the legit app store).

That's why it took years to even build a first generation product.

Why window blinds when it could roll up more like a snail?

Why do you think this is something "nobody asked for"? There is clearly a market for large wide-screen tablets and this form factor just makes them pocketable.

Are Tecno phones sold in your country or did you import one?

Somehow I'm still surprised their target market can even afford 1000$ phones.

Aimed at emerging markets, Tecno has focused its business on the African, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Latin American, and Eastern European markets.

I wonder why won't they expand their markets, even just for the flip/fold series?

Eh, a "reset hole" like calculators and toys have would suffice, as the phone already needs one for the SIM slot.

Having owned 3 OnePlus phones, I never liked that feature.

Android 5 introduced a "do not disturb" mode, which OnePlus's software just... removes, in favor of the toggle. Hence I have constantly used workarounds or custom ROMs to avoid that toggle altogether.

This is why I prefer DND/software toggle:

• Automatic silence at night
• If you know you need to have it silent for X hours, you can set a timer
• Location automation, especially LineageOS's, but I believe there is some form in AOSP (or Pixel) now too.

I've also tried using the switch for something else, like flashlight, but sometimes ended up activating it by accident, draining the battery.

So now I just have the switch doing nothing at all.

I look forward to the point a screen can be balled up like a piece of paper

Well, most flagship mobile screens are already flexible. It's the rest of the components that is the issue 😄

It would be nice if a competitor entered the space where usability is the goal and be an open source solution.

ReactOS?

https://youtu.be/JOIp4s4YNEs

For other Chromium browsers or those who don't see this yet, enable chrome://flags#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-warning.

Search engine crawlers identify themselves (user agents), so they can be prevented by both honor-based system (robots.txt) and active blocking (error 403 or similar) when attempted.

Well, you are not expected to grip around the lens, you don't want to smudge the lens anyway. Hence the lens' thickness is not that relevant day-to-day, while I do agree that it can still be relevant in certain cases.

Vivaldi and Brave have the option to disable the Hangouts extension in settings, which should disable this.

As linked in the article, it is indeed used for "Hangouts" (Meet) troubleshooting.

What if you used a part of your palm instead of a finger?

Some Chromium browsers like Brave and Vivaldi already announced they'll extend it for as long as they can, and when they no longer can't, they'll think of something else like improve their own blockers.