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I wouldn't dare buy an iPhone 7

ronincse said:
We're getting on a major tangent here but I can't let it go.

You literally can't get the original AOSP browser anymore without rooting and side loading. AFAIK there isn't a single modern phone that actually has the thing installed. Google, the company that develops Android, installs Chrome as a default on the Nexus phones and almost certainly on the Pixels. Saying Chrome is just a Google app is like saying Edge isn't the default browser because it's just a Microsoft app (or Safari is just an Apple app).

When a browser isn't installed on any of the newer phones, isn't even available to be installed, and has been dropped by the developer I'd say it has been phased out. Seriously go try to install it on your S7 and let me know how it goes.

Edit: Looks like maybe there are some work arounds to install it without root. Those are all from years ago when the stock browser was phased out though and were for kitkat. At least from what I could find on the first couple pages of google results.
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The Samsung browser is based off of the AOSP browser.
 
Channan said:
The Samsung browser is based off of the AOSP browser.
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That's an OEM browser though and definitely not a stock browser for the OS.

I don't see how you can argue that Chrome isn't the default browser for Android. AOSP apps have basically been discontinued and are unused in all but the most obscure products at this point.
 
x-evil-x said:
EVERYDAY USE you cannot see pixels. The iPhone isn't meant for VR thats why APPLE hasn't released their own VR yet because the ppi in the phones now are not meant for it. When apple releases VR you will see a big bump in PPI.
This is like standing 2 feet in front of a 1080p tv and complaining about seeing pixels and whining about it. What do you expect? Its common sense no?
every day use as a phone you will not see pixels even super close to your face on an iPhone screen. The only time you will start seeing big changes between a android high PPI screen compared to an iPhone screen is in VR...
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Other phones can do VR with no pixels visible and they don't even have a retina display.
 
ronincse said:
That's an OEM browser though and definitely not a stock browser for the OS.

I don't see how you can argue that Chrome isn't the default browser for Android. AOSP apps have basically been discontinued and are unused in all but the most obscure products at this point.
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I don't see how you can argue that Chrome is the default browser for Android.
 
Channan said:
I don't see how you can argue that Chrome is the default browser for Android.
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I guess you can potentially go by what's the default browser that comes with Android on Google's "vanilla" Android installations, on phones like the Nexus or Pixel ones.
 
ronincse said:
That's an OEM browser though and definitely not a stock browser for the OS.

I don't see how you can argue that Chrome isn't the default browser for Android. AOSP apps have basically been discontinued and are unused in all but the most obscure products at this point.
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Isn't the stock browser whichever one comes with the version of Android that you're getting with your phone? You can argue that Chrome is Google's detault, but that doesn't make it the de facto default browser for all Android phones, because it's certainly not the default browser on the best-selling flavor of Android.
 
ZombiePete said:
Isn't the stock browser whichever one comes with the version of Android that you're getting with your phone? You can argue that Chrome is Google's detault, but that doesn't make it the de facto default browser for all Android phones, because it's certainly not the default browser on the best-selling flavor of Android.
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Well, you can probably say there's a default Android browser (as in pure/vanilla Android that Google puts out) and then that there can be default browsers for different manufacturer/carrier flavors of Android.
 
Channan said:
I don't see how you can argue that Chrome is the default browser for Android.
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Kinda splitting hairs, aren't you? They call it the Android Browser, but it's based on the same WebKit as Chrome. So isn't the difference really the name? It's not really a different browser, and it certainly isn't Firefox, Explorer or Safari
 
Alameda said:
Kinda splitting hairs, aren't you? They call it the Android Browser, but it's based on the same WebKit as Chrome. So isn't the difference really the name? It's not really a different browser, and it certainly isn't Firefox, Explorer or Safari
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And yet Chrome gets a little laggy sometimes while the AOSP browser doesn't.
 
C DM said:
Well, you can probably say there's a default Android browser (as in pure/vanilla Android that Google puts out) and then that there can be default browsers for different manufacturer/carrier flavors of Android.
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You're sort of just getting philosophical at that point then; sure Google may prefer Chrome be seen as the default/stock/whatever browser, but when the majority of Android users are Samsung buyers, the default for the majority of Android users is whatever the stock Samsung browser is. So what I told you is true...from a certain point of view.
 
Channan said:
And yet Chrome gets a little laggy sometimes while the AOSP browser doesn't.
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You mean the browser that Google ported and compiled for Android is better than the browser that Google ported and compiled for Android?

Look, I honestly don't care at all. I don't use Android, but I hope all the Android users are really happy, because I want everybody to be happy. I don't think your choice in cell phone makes you smarter or sexier or part of a team. If you're happy with your stuff, that's gl great with me.

But I think that there's little difference between these two web browsers, and if one runs better, then it's because it was ported and optimized better for a given platform. Why Google names it Android and not Chrome is anybody's guess.
 
freepomme said:
And this proves exactly what I wrote in the title of this thread.

Same resolution, same PPI, same color depth. Updated technology.

It's no wonder when you look at them side-to-side, they look exactly the same. Because they are.

And everything that that website critiqued the iPhone 7 on, like the fact that the iPhone 7 has a screen so reflective it could be used as a mirror, thus having to amplify brightness settings thus wasting battery... that's the same thing I've been saying for years.

It's why everybody is still waiting for them to switch to OLED, plus update the resolution, and the reason why Retina HD and Retina are 2 terms that are diametrically opposed.

I've said this, time, after time, after time.
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OLED is about blacker blacks... nothing to do with "Retina" pixel count.

I'm not sure what you're getting at... it effects all display based devices... all of them have a glass screen no matter which one you buy. What you've said "time after time" is inconsequential, I could say... gutters get clogged so why build gutters? and it makes as much sense as what you are ranting about.

Just to Lay it out:
OLED is about blacks and brightness
Retina Display is probably all our eyes need as far as pixel count.
Color accuracy on the newest iPhone and iPad Pro are the most accurate based on Cinema standards.
Reflection can only be obscured by non reflective matte screen protectors but otherwise glass is always going to be reflective.
 
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Channan said:
I don't see how you can argue that Chrome is the default browser for Android.
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Kind of forgot about this debate after I left work ;)

Let's try this: Google develops Android. Google designed the new Pixels (according to them anyway) and they have designed the UI to be their vision of Android. Chrome is the default browser on those phones. Therefore the default browser that the developer of the OS prefers is Chrome. We can also look at the default browser on the latest Nexus devices as well and see the same thing.

Also: you can't install what you are saying is the stock browser anymore. Granted that Samsung currently develops their version of it, but that would be like saying the Samsung calculator app is the stock calculator app for Android. Everything other than Chrome are OEM installed apps. To go back to the Windows example: if HP installs Chrome/Firefox/Opera on all their new computers the stock browser is still Edge.

I just have to ask one more time: if you literally cannot install an app without workarounds how can you say it's the stock app?
 
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