Samsung has their own proprietary Camera app, and its own proprietary Gallery app. The Google issue probably doesn't apply to you, but even though they're better than Google options, you're still locked in too.
Your mileage may vary depending on the cellphone manufacturer, but everything I've seen (Google or Samsung based) has been locked in and paired on an OS that was once beloved for having interchangeable components.
I tried this and a recommended fork just now, but I don't think you can use it unless you fully remove the default provider first. I have a locked phone and I think that makes it impossible for me
The more offensive part is, Google Photos is not only the default image viewer on (Google's) Android, but (Google's) Camera app will only open pictures in it too. So it's cloud crap that's also literally programmed into a lot of people's cameras.
Does it matter if you don't update? I imagine they already have it on their servers, which is where I imagine the photos are mostly processed.
Here's to hoping that repairability includes software... This time.
Okay, but don't go complaining if one of them slices through you on its way to the good timeline!
I'm not saying there's anything untoward here, but at what point do we start looking at these partnerships and start to wonder if it affects the repairability ratings?
HMD partnered with iFixit and created a very repairable phone... Except in the software realm, where the bootloader is locked, it's still on Android 15, and allegedly the next major update will be its last (giving it a shorter security shelf life than a glued-up Samsung).
Don't worry, they've definitely hitched their horse on the right Next Big Thing this time!
I don't know if they deserve a third dimension if this is how they handle two
And those looms inspired Chuck Babbage to build the Difference Engine, which was at the 1862 World's Fair. Years before Marx started writing Capital.
So again, when you say these machines are inconceivable to Marx...
I can't believe the company resuscitated a 40-year-old chip plant - with a CEO who similarly looks like he was frozen in a block of ice since the 80s - and are selling out new wafers to help such a confused industry. Neat if it works, I guess, but it's a shame these innovations aren't passing down to users (unless somehow, less energy turns into less usage and less taxpayer subsidization, but usually efficiency increases just go the other way).
r/privacy moderators removed a New York Times Wirecutter journalist's post and comments, accusing them of "promoting a site or blog" (this is not an applicable rule).
The journalist was in the comments talking with users, and the top comment was censored too.
Original post (gone now)
The same post on a different subreddit where it was not censored
The phone in question is the HMD Skyline, which gets a 9/10 on iFixit (and is a 0/10 on the software side, which they conveniently left out)
I'll live without it and probably trade in the repairable phone (lol) but it really is a bummer