Do we know they are monitoring our usage of the launcher?

It’s this kind of nonsense that always makes me run back to my iPhone.

I had a light camera. It was very good but it needed more cameras.

So far I am very impressed with beeper. I cant find anything that does not work well.

Oh, the whole sheep argument is silly. iMessage is better than RCS, and I don’t blame any Apple user for wanting to stay within iMessage if possible. It’s not Apple’s fault that Google took forever to get their act together in the messaging space.

The fact is that with iMessage it’s pretty obvious that you and the recipients of a message are in a private conversation whose contents is only visible to the participants. With RCS it is not crystal clear. That is an Apple advantage and I see no reason they should give that up. Google likes collecting all that meta data about a conversation. Unlike apple they directly or indirectly sell that data.

You are right. The ones in the screen just don’t work well enough. Why after the pixel 4 they abandoned face recognition is beyond me.

Maybe. My pixel today would no read my finger but fingerprint scanners on all android devices I have tried are flaky.

You’re assuming the bulk of the interaction with your phone is producing content instead of consuming.