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[+] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even if it was good, the fact that they wrote Google Plus and not Google+ tells me how much thought they put into this article

    I was an early user of it and, unlike a lot of Google projects, there's a reason they scrapped it: it sucked.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    And we're still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.

    Why?

    Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    ES File Explorer was very good at the beginning, but it enshittified quickly. Nowadays MaterialFiles is the best file explorer for Android, and it has more features than ES had ever. And it's open source so it can't have a similar fate. Google Play link, F-droid link

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Looks nice! I use the Fossify File Manager; they seem very similar.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Fossify looks similar, but it misses some crucial features I use frequently. I downloaded it now to check it, Material can do these things, while Fossify can't:

    • Open multiple windows for commander like usage
    • Connect to remote shares with SFTP, FTP, SMB or Webdav
    • Connect to app storage with Storage Access Framework
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Material files doesn't have anywhere near enough. ES File Explorer could open a bunch of files, a text editor, sftp, ftp, audio, image viewer, etc. ES File Explorer was intolerable on the free version, but if you paid a few quid, you got a perfect product.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    MaterialFiles can connect to ftp, sftp, webdav and smb. It has a text editor. There is built in image viewer and music player in most roms nowadays, and MaterialFiles has an "open with" option where you can select what you want to do with a file.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I still miss Swype.

    To this day it is still better than every other keyboard I've tried at recognising traces.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The list is missing Google Now. A feature so useful Google cut it because it was reducing searches.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I still miss QuickPic. :-(

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Inbox was fantastic. I used an older version well after the shutdown date.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    titanium backup has been made obsolete by swift backup

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  • Y'all remember bump?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    This list of apps is ridiculous and none of them were even noteworthy.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Titanium Backup is the exception for me. All the others... πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈπŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I enjoyed Swype before it sold out to Microsoft.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It was a really excellent keyboard.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Google Play music was pretty good. simple and effective. easy to use.

    Google podcasts was trash

    YouTube music is ... well it's just kinda bad

    wait, do I have that backwards? is it Google Podcasts that was good, and Google Play music that was trash? one of them was basically impossible to use for podcasts, like if you just wanted to find what you had downloaded, that was literally not an option you had to go to the podcast and then filter by downloads

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This list is kinda of nostalgic to me. When I was younger, I was obessed with andriod mods and rooting videos on YouTube, and I remeber all those apps getting recommened in videos!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Loved minuum keyboard

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