Less love for Android users

[Deleted member 17810]

So here's the deal. Apple implements hardware like two or three generations ahead of time and doesn't activate it until later. When the flip the switch on phones it's good for like 80% of their ios devices.

Which is why this feature works on iOS and and not android.

Android phones/os are so fragmented that it takes years for these things to take off. UWB is standard thing on most new phones, but old phones dont have it. So it's OS/Hardware related.

It's just not worth the resources at tesla to implement this for like 10 people who have an android phone that can use it.

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[Woodrick]

So here's the deal. Apple implements hardware like two or three generations ahead of time and doesn't activate it until later. When the flip the switch on phones it's good for like 80% of their ios devices.

Which is why this feature works on iOS and and not android.

Android phones/os are so fragmented that it takes years for these things to take off. UWB is standard thing on most new phones, but old phones dont have it. So it's OS/Hardware related.

It's just not worth the resources at tesla to implement this for like 10 people who have an android phone that can use it.

So I would end up with new hardware that I can't use for years?

 

[Deleted member 17810]

So I would end up with new hardware that I can't use for years?

Yes, apple does it all the time.

 

[dalton108]

Yes, apple does it all the time.

Yep. Just like our Cybertrucks have, full self driving capability and wireless charging to name but a few. People are funny to me. Everything is so contextualized in terms of whether they actually like something or not it depends on who’s associated with a thing.

Nobody complains about Tesla’s walled garden ever! But I android users cannot get off of their high horse about how awesome it is to have the ability to get spam built into their phones and fleeced with all kinds of malware and bullshit apps because of their “freedom.”

And I keep a tidy garden in real life and I want the same thing in my tech.

All respect to Dune, but cognitive dissonance is the real mind killer!

 

[TeslaKen]

Yep. Just like our Cybertrucks have, full self driving capability and wireless charging to name but a few. People are funny to me. Everything is so contextualized in terms of whether they actually like something or not it depends on who’s associated with a thing.

Nobody complains about Tesla’s walled garden ever! But I android users cannot get off of their high horse about how awesome it is to have the ability to get spam built into their phones and fleeced with all kinds of malware and bullshit apps because of their “freedom.”

And I keep a tidy garden in real life and I want the same thing in my tech.

All respect to Dune, but cognitive dissonance is the real mind killer!

And to quote another source, with great freedom comes great responsibility!

Seriously very few leaps forward were done on Macs but rather on open and free PC's.

Now that being said I can see where something like a watch or a phone doesn't need to be open and extensible because people typically don't do creative work or content development work on them like they would on a PC. FWIW there have been plenty of iPhone security faults just like there have been on Android so going iPhone doesn't make someone "safe".

 

[HaulingAss]

I have also read on reddit...

Big mistake!

 

[SCTesla]

Looks like the same with sentry mode previews. IOS or apple only. Android will only receive a preview of the alarm goes off during a forced entry.

Sentry previews work fine on Samsung Galaxy S24s.

The only thing Apple got first was the auto frunk.

I get previews every time my kids try to open the door before I get there and alarm events. I've been getting alarm events since like June.

 

[JER]

Can you see the entire sentry event list on your phone the same as you can on the screen? With apple you can view everything in the list like when people just walk by to close.

 

[TeslaKen]

Sentry previews work fine on Samsung Galaxy S24s.

The only thing Apple got first was the auto frunk.

I get previews every time my kids try to open the door before I get there and alarm events. I've been getting alarm events since like June.

Apple users also got Apple Watch support first...

 

[SCTesla]

Apple users also got Apple Watch support first...

Fair, but there are so many different android watches and they have completely different UI. There's Samsung (probably the biggest outside of Apple), Google, then the generic Android ones.

To make a watch app, it would need to be different for each of those watches.

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