You may be able to mount your NTFS formatted Pen drive via OTG w/o Third party apps.

Good Image Processing works wonder

Why do these Luxury brands keep on collaboration with these brands? IMO they are destroying their image.

Afaik, You can use export your Google Contacts into Excel/CSV files when using contacts for web.

Edit the csv file and import it back again. You may need to delete existing before importing.

I think upstream might be the right word in this context.

IMO if they could make the options more easily understood or let users select the way the files needs to be shared.

I have often found that Nearby would be using F* Bluetooth to send files.

WhatsApp is also E2E and backup can also be encrypted (Atleast on Android).

I just hope we can Interoperability b/w Signal and WhatsApp.

Yes. I did mention APN (Apple Push Notifications) to Beeper Push Notifications which then routes via FCM for Android. The whole setup does require active server cost + time to work on the app to bring it to parity with iMessage Features.

High time Google opens up the RCS for other apps on Android.

Apple protecting it’s precious garden.

The entire Fiasco is mostly US only. Rest of the World have different apps that dominate in individual regions like WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber etc.

Signal

No, they were charging money as they had their own APN to BPN bridge. Plus the usual cost of development and more.

I would have preferred Hot Chips.

MiXplorer, Folder Sync Pro and more

I haven’t encountered such a thing yet (been using for 5 months).

There are lot of methods to bypass those checks even now, and often many ROMs do this by default. (LineageOS doesn’t do that afaik)

This is exactly me. Never felt the need of the Google Drive app till now.

Xiaomi Does albeit with some wait time.

I’m talking from a general user perspective who often can’t even differentiate between chipsets let alone look for such details.

People used to got to Custom ROMs because OEMs were really doing shit job, that’s not the case now given now.

Honestly, Custom ROMs have been in decline of usage since few years. There are also Other ROMS like Pixel Experience, PixyOS, Havoc, evolutionX, PixelOS, Paranoid, Derpfest, CrDroid and lot more.

The reason for the drop is due to a combination of reasons like better OEM UI, unpublished Kernel code (Chinese OEMs, Mediatek), locked bootloaders and Safetynet issues.

I’m currently rocking CrDroid it has currently ~85K active devices (https://stats.crdroid.net/).