jaybirrd

joined 3 years ago
 

I really dislike ad driven publications. I'm not opposed to paying for quality news publication, but for something like NYT, there's only a couple articles a month I come across that I'm really interested in reading. There problem is that there's 4-5 other paywalled publications where I have that same issue. I'm interested in their content, I just can't justify the subscription price for the small amount of content from them I'll actually consume, and I really can't justify paying subscriptions for 4-5 publications at once.

I would pay $5-10 a month for a news aggregator for paywalled publications. It could be set up in a way that the publications get paid per view of their articles, it could be opened up to independent writers as well (e.g. integrate your substack with it). Maybe even an additional fee that includes digital magazine publications as well.

I can't imagine it would be worse for the industry (unlike Spotify), as it already seems like journalism/news is hovering above collapse. They would be making money off of people who weren't providing revenue previously.

[–] jaybirrd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Ah yes another prime example of them working with those who were willing to work with them. That's what they said, right?

[–] jaybirrd@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

Yeah! Most of the features surround calling and camera. Call screening and the Direct My Call features are excellent, the former has the caller state who they are and what they're calling about which you can see visually on your phone screen while the call is still ringing. I generally don't answer calls from unrecognized numbers so it can be helpful to see if a call is actually important. Direct My Call is will visually show you what's happening when you're navigating a call menu (press 1 for x, press 2 for y, etc) it will list out the options so you can read them which is really helpful.

For camera all photos are taken as motion photos and it will automatically select what it thinks is the best photo of the bunch, but gives you the option to tweak which frame. Recently they released something where you can have it erase people or objects in the background of your photos.

That's just a few examples, but there are a lot of great features that are Pixel specific that I really love. Android Authority also has this article which explains it more in depth: https://www.androidauthority.com/best-pixel-features-explained-3217987/

[–] jaybirrd@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

It would take something truly revolutionary to move me away from the Pixel. I had the original Pixel and after that went through a couple different non-Pixel phones and the whole time I hated the experience. Google's extra features that you get with Pixels have become essential to me.

I've had the Pixel 5 for almost 3 years now, I just replaced the battery in it and I plan on keeping this phone for at least another couple years. It has everything I need on the hardware front, and is still getting new features and updates.

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