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I’ve given up on Google Pixel phones and I think you should too. Before Pixel superfans decide to launch angry hot and bothered Tweets, I think by the time you hear my points you’ll agree with me 100 percent. My Pixel adventure started with a carrier-purchased Pixel 2 XL with 128MB of storage in 2017. It was near MSRP but my carrier was offering several hundred dollars off with a trade-in of an old junker phone I had, so I made the jump. The Pixel 2 XL was as impressive as the… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. Downloads of apps… Source link

This may sound familiar, but there’s something wrong with the latest software update for Google’s Pixel 6 phones. As Google tweaks the version of Android it distributes to phones running its custom Tensor chip, there have been some odd issues, but instead of problems with Wi-Fi or a slow thumbprint scanner, this time, it’s affecting another key feature: notifications. They still pop up on the phone just as regularly, but for some reason, the strength of the vibration is now… Source link

Google announced on Wednesday that it would test letting Android developers use their own billing systems in their apps, the first step in what could lead to a dramatic reshaping of the app economy. However, Epic Games, which has been a strong proponent for opening app marketplaces and sued Google after the search giant removed Fortnite from Google Play for including direct payments, still isn’t happy. It plans to continue advocating for an app ecosystem that offers more choices,… Source link

A rendering reportedly showing what the Google Pixel Watch could look like based on leaks obtained by from Jon… Source link

For years, a loose coalition of companies, including Spotify and Epic Games, has been railing against the so-called app store tax — taking Apple and Google to court and spurring regulators to investigate their up-to-30 percent cut of developers’ app revenue. They argue they’re locked into grossly overpriced billing, hosting, and curation services that sometimes hurt more than they help. So it was a surprise when, on Wednesday, Google revealed a pilot program with Spotify that will… Source link

Google fosters a work environment that marginalizes Black employees, denies people of color advancement opportunities and ignores sexual harassment claims, among other indiscretions, according to plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed against the company in California this week. At a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, attorney Ben Crump and two former employees of the search engine behemoth detailed what they called a “racist culture” at the enterprise headquartered in… Source link

In a bid to help enterprises optimize customer service, Google Cloud is extending its Contact Center AI (CCAI) service with the ability to integrate with CRM (customer relationship management) applications in order to provide real-time insights and data analytics.  The extended service will be called the Contact Center AI (CCAI) Platform and is scheduled for general availability in August.  The CCAI Platform will include capabilities offered by the current service, such as DialogFlow… Source link

In recent years, tech giants and other companies have come under scrutiny on how they collect and use user data. Google itself has focused on making privacy improvements to its products and services in response. However, it looks like its efforts did not go far enough. A new research paper reveals that Google’s Messages and Dialer/Phone apps have been collecting and sending scrambled user data to its servers, potentially violating the European Union’s GDPR. Douglas Leith, a computer… Source link

The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are finally getting this month’s sizeable feature drop, as Google spokesperson Matt Flegal confirmed to The Verge that the rollout will begin today. Google previously rolled out the update to the Pixel 3A and 5A on March 7th but decided to push back the update for Pixel 6 devices to address bug fixes, according to Android Police. March’s feature drop brings improved night photography in Snapchat, custom stickers, support for YouTube watch parties in Google Duo,… Source link