Let's Talk about Pixel 6 Pro Bugs, iMessage vs RCS...and Wordle

There was a lot that happened this week but before digging into the serious news, Marques introduces Andrew to the viral daily word puzzle game Wordle. After that, they go over Marques elaborates on why he's no longer using the Pixel 6 Pro as his daily Android phone. Then they go deep into iMessage and RCS before having David Imel on to talk about all of the latest chipset news to come out of CES 2022.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:15 What is Wordle?
07:46 Pixel 6 Pro Tweet
24:26 Indeed (Sponsored)
25:33 iMessage vs RCS
45:24 David Imel talks chipset announcements
01:02:15 Outro
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Wordle taken down from App store: bit.ly/33xEdKu
Pixel December update being pulled: bit.ly/33xEhtI
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[@TheUriel360]

The lag at 13:24 has me thinking my Google Pixel 6 Pro IS lagging 😂 nice editing

[@kamrinkea3183]

I want a pixel but these reveiws aren't helping, how is it?

[@R3YNZ]

@@kamrinkea3183 id wait at least another month to see what's the verdict on this January Update. I have the 6 Pro and it does have some bugs mentioned above and then some.

[@ssaini5028]

@@kamrinkea3183 I have the regular Pixel 6, great phone imo.

[@bananawarriorwootwoot]

@@kamrinkea3183 I would recommend waiting till January end or get the pixel 6 regular.

[@kamrinkea3183]

Im probably getting it in February

[@TechieConnoisseur]

Excited for Andrew’s Wednesday from 9-10pm Wordle streams!!

[@jyothyelizabethmartin4927]

what is it? i didnt get u is andrew getting married ?!

[@TechieConnoisseur]

@@jyothyelizabethmartin4927 In reference to 7:36

[@potatoman7475]

💀💀💀💀💀

[@imperial-gamer]

@@jyothyelizabethmartin4927 he is already married 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@stpr16]

@@imperial-gamer yeah hes married to marques

[@vncube1002]

1. The editing on this pod is why I won't switch to audio only 👌🏾 2. Wouldn't be surprised if psychologists were involved in the development of the Green v Blue bubble idea - it's subtle but so effective😂. 3. The chip segue...

[@mikemrichards]

I think the big thing with regard to WhatsApp/Telegram, etc, is that in Europe the cost of SMS was very high. The high cost of SMS drove the adoption of alternatives faster than in the US as in the US although SMS was expensive to us it was not the same as overseas. So, in the US we kept using SMS/MMS but other countries adopted alternatives a long time ago for this reason.

[@Yashasvi_Tripathi]

This is brand new information for me that in the US people actually use sms service. I've lived in 3 different countries in the past 10 years and haven't sent a single sms since probably 2010.

[@jimshaw899]

I almost didn't recognize David without his trademark shirt. It's really nice to have his informed take on new chips and strategies. Not many popular channels have Imel-class overview. Apple is two laps ahead and still accelerating, but the finish line is nowhere in view. (And most of the other racers are still parked in design.)

[@Chris1511]

As someone from England, “Favor” was the worst Wordle day! It’s spelt wrong, should be “Favour” 😂

[@zodiv2474]

Same thing here in South Africa too😭

[@lenaelisabeth]

Lol, the guy that made Wordle is British himself 🤣

[@adamantium7]

I don't think that RCS can fully SMS, since it requires a data connection/wifi. SMS will always exist in case your phone loses its data connection. But it will certainly soon become the standard protocol for messaging to support chat features

[@photosbyant]

Coffee hot and ready, headphones in, lets do this!

[@muhammadahsanbari6440]

same

[@Manganellia1]

Enjoy your coffee!

[@PawwwMan]

Yessir!

[@thomvernhout3971]

In the Netherlands the concept of Wordle is an entire game show called Lingo.

[@SarveshBheekhun]

Re: the green vs blue bubble battle, people tend to forget that the original colour was green cause iMessage didn’t exist till iOS 5. Apple made iMessage bubbles blue simply to differentiate them from regular SMS/MMS especially since carriers used to charge per text. I kinda think Apple wants to wait until RCS can support encrypted group chats before supporting it cause as of right now, only 1:1 chats can enjoy that feature Also, if they add support for RCS (which I hope they do), would they make that another colour?

[@VMYeahVN]

"Also, if they add support for RCS (which I hope they do), would they make that another colour?" Honestly, they could/should if that helps them want to support it. That way the RCS features get supported, but iPhone users can still have their goofy superiority complex over Android users having a different colored bubble lol (assuming part of the reason Apple hasn't supported RCS yet is cause they don't want to lose the social pressure aspect of the lock in iMessage creates). I think you are onto something with them wanting to wait till RCS supports group chat encryption though, that could be a potential feature based reason they'd hold back on supporting it. I mean they even could still have the bubble be green, just then Green would be for RCS, MMS, and SMS all together. They don't really need to make RCS purple or something like that.

[@SarveshBheekhun]

@@VMYeahVN To be honest, I don’t really think it’s about the superiority complex. I mean, I’m sure they’re very happy about the situation in the US and have no incentive to change that but the US is an outlier. The way I think about it is, whenever they’ll want to bring RCS support to the iPhone, they’ll want to differentiate it from regular SMS/MMS as well as iMessage simply because the feature sets are different. As of right now, when iMessage fails and the text falls back to SMS, it is very clear what happens when the bubble turns green. Since RCS also falls back to SMS, keeping both the same colour could get confusing really quickly since people won’t know when they’re using RCS and when it’s just regular SMS. Also, I have no idea how they’re going to support group chats using all 3 services in one app. It’s going to be much easier for Google for eg. cause they only need to support RCS and fall back to SMS (kinda like iOS Messages works right now). For Apple, I don’t think they’re going to launch a separate app for RCS and juggling between 3 messaging services in the same app will get confusing for a lot of people.

[@max___9227]

I agree with you

[@deasterbrooks]

The green vs blue bubble is a thing for high school kids. My daughter had this issue, and it wasn't so much bullying as being excluded. With iMessage you can add people to a group chat without re-creating the group message. If one kid was added to the friend group later and they had an android phone, they didn't want to create a whole new text string just to add one person. She had to find out about plans from a friend who would forward the message to her...so yeah it is an issue, kids just not wanting to deal with all the incompatibles of it.

[@toptiertech7291]

Then you also can’t leave a group chat once an android has joined it. No matter how much you delete the thread. It just makes things a little harder

[@welfiblablabla]

The random Google Assistant triggers Andrew had, I've also encountered on my S21 Ultra. The ones where I want to talk to the Assistant speaker bit the phone lights up and/or answers. But retraining the voice model doesn't change this.

[@marco.pereira]

Crazy that me and my friend haven't had any of these isssues on the Nov update. The one thing I agree with is the I do wish the fingerprint was a bit quicker when compared to the older rear finger print sensors. I can't compare it to other onscreen sensors because this is the first phone I own with a onscreen sensor. I rely on the camera every day since I take tons of pictures and videos of my 5 and 7 year old + my dog playing around and I haven't experience slowness. In fact I haven't experience network issues either (Google Fi), but I hope the December update resolves the issues others are having.

[@ItzNaz_]

Same here, I haven't had any issues on my Pixel 6

[@kissgergo5202]

13:25 You got me to rewind to check if it was browser or the video that lagged

[@jasonoliveira2149]

DAVID'S VIDEO QUALITY AT THE END WAS SO GOOD

[@Svetacus]

This was an interesting take about the Pixel 6 pro. As a P6p user myself who switched from the S21U I can attest to having the exact opposite issue. My S21U experience was SUPER BUGGY while my P6p experience has been miles better in comparison. I cannot emphasize just how much better the camera experience is on the P6p vs the S21U! Aside from the software being biggy as heck and my shutter button being duplicated off-center on top of the centered button that's already there, the shutter speed and autofocus are complete trash level on the S21U vs the Pixel. I can launch, focus and take 2 pictures before my S21U has even finished hunting for focus. I can also say that my battery life is 2hr better than the S21U gets. My SOT on the pixel is consistently 14hrs while the S21U is 11-12 with battery saver on. The only thing I miss is when it's cold outside and my S21U would get so hot from taking pictures and videos that it would make a great hand warmer, sadly the pixel doesn't heat up like that to be as useful.

[@Jalalaburas1979]

Great stuff . Love my pixel 6 pro . I had the s 20 note ultra and had issues . No phone is perfect . iOS has its fair share issues as well . No platform is perfect period . Great feedback man !

[@jfreshh330]

The “BOOP" @ 11:58 killed me 😂

[@kareemellebany3559]

the video lagging when Marques says it would lag... brilliant.

[@alreadydropdead]

I appreciate the high ground meme at 40:00 thank you

[@danseymour4221]

I have had a Pixel 3 and still have not experienced the delays being talked about. Battery life is the only difference I can noticeably detect.

[@ngdnhatanh]

I mean it's Google’s first attempt with their own SoC. Look at the way Samsung is still messing around with Exynos after all that years. Did not expect them to be on par with Apple from day one. Give it a $200 discount and we’ll all be fine 🤣

[@toptiertech7291]

@@ngdnhatanh Googles SoC is based on Exynos so Exynos can’t be that bad. The SoC is good for their AI stuff but not the best for performance so far. I got the pixel 6 pro at launch and it’s much slower than my Galaxy S21+

[@georgeirvingnormaniii3291]

👏👏👏 timely for me on the Pixel thoughts

[@marcusr6201]

The closest thing Google ever had to an iMessage competitor was Hangouts. All they had to do was keep working on it, but they decided to abandon it in favor of Allo, which didn't even have sms fallback!

[@vikashsamaga]

2:35 In regards to Andrew's comment about it being from a game show, I believe it's the same concept as the GSN show 'Lingo'. Used to watch it a lot when it aired.

[@ThomasTheTankEngine22]

The iMessage thing particularly annoys me personally. I am an Android guy. I recently got an iPhone 13pro just to see what the other side is like (spoiler: I'm very unimpressed). When I had Android I would get excluded out of group chats and plans simply because I had an Android. Now that I have an iPhone all of a sudden I got like 10 different group chats to manage now. I'm definitely going back to Android with the s22 ultra. But I'm also reevaluating my friends. If they were willing to exclude me from their plans simply because I didn’t have certain phone then I cant call them a friend. There’s way too much toxic behavior that is involved with owning an iPhone. Combined with the closed-in operating system an ecosystem I just feel really gross using this phone. That’s the only way I can describe it

[@TerabitTech]

1:00:36 The R9 290X was actually a very good card when released compared to the GTX 780... After they they started slipping away somewhat, but the R9 Fury X was actually a decent card, although slightly slower than the top GTX 980Ti. With the Vega series AMD couldn't match the GTX 1080Ti, consumed a lot more power and had supply issues. With the 5xxx series they lacked an high end card, for sure. But the R9 6800XT is actually very competitive with the RTX 3080 (is actually faster, if I recall correctly, and it's probably one of the reasons Nvidia even bothered releasing the RTX 3080 12 GB, which has a different memory and core configuration compared to the 10GB although they have the same name). And the 6900XT is a very good card, slightly slower than the 3090 on most occasions, but sometimes faster and on average less power hungry... some people believe that the RTX 3080 12GB and the RTX 3090Ti exist only to get clear of the 6800XT and 6900XT card. And on the laptop side, the 6800M GPU was actually a very good card IMHO, probably better than the RTX 3080 mobile in terms of efficiency (in the past, with R9 300 and Vega cards AMD was more power hungry than Nvidia, but this time with RX 6000 and RTX 3000 is the other way around). Don't dismiss AMD cards this time... In terms of pure performance, AMD is on part at the moment. Unfortunately, they are behind on some features like ray tracing and DLSS, of which they have their own flavour (kinda) but less polished or less performant.

[@victorjaeger]

Adam the man, making the video lag @13:27 Brilliant!

[@jyothyelizabethmartin4927]

IKR

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Interesting! Nice video. ✌️

[@SachinInderSharma]

29:40 "Old man yells at cloud"was hilarious😂😂😂😂

[@bad8367]

@13:25 lmao great editing

[@BriNathanCollins]

Watching on my buggy Pixel 3 XL. Leaving Pixel this month!

[@xcbaby123]

Watching from my pixel 6 pro. I've used a s20 fe for the last year + couple months and had a note 10 prior to that. So far only issue here is the adaptive brightness light sensor for the display. The finger print sensor isn't a issue to me. The s20 fe also used a fingerprint sensor with the same technology. Although I do think it may have been slightly better than the Pixel 6 pro. But this phone is just so buttery smooth for me. I love it

[@XLessThanZ]

FP reader: I don't like the in-screen fp reader. The one on the rear worked better. 120 Hz: Camera and games is the only place I want 120 Hz. I don't need it anywhere else. 120 by app rather than adaptive. iMessage: an episode explaining it's popularity would be useful info for Android users.

[@dalast1woke]

RCS is taking over both sms/mms. It send more character and high quality pictures and videos. It allow to send files. With all the other benefits of a internet chat system

[@sasonbraha4599]

The biggest issue for me with the Pixel 6 is the signal strength, I’m consistently missing calls, just unreliable.

[@04wrxsubaru48]

That's ur service not the phone

[@sasonbraha4599]

@@04wrxsubaru48 Nope. The iPhone 13 Pro Max with the exact same SIM card has no such issues.

[@Jawnderlust]

I still remember the Keynote where Steve Jobs rolled out the blue bubbles and iMessage. I didn’t understand the concept or potential for iMessage at the time, now it’s one of a few primary features keeping me around… what a lesson on sociology and technology.

[@Jawnderlust]

*the Blue Bubbles of the iMessage App didn’t show up until like 2011, 3 years into the iPhone… it was originally all green

[@SimpleFiction]

Best podcast to listen to !

[@simonchinnery1738]

I've lived in Germany and Italy and WhatsApp is the standard. It also comes preinstalled in a lot of phones, along with Facebook messenger, which, coincidentally, plays second fiddle to WhatsApp, at least in Italy and Belgium (so I've heard).

[@b.c.7662]

WhatsApp failed to take off in its home country, the way data and messaging plans work using the built in messaging is ultimately cheaper.

[@aydanhvd]

IDK if it is just me but in my country, you have per SMS you send, so using the default app to message especially for group chats would be unrealistically expensive. Messaging in messaging apps on the other hand uses your wifi or ur mobile data - something you already paid for. People don't even use the default phone app for calls they use WhatsApp/Telegram. Because currier companies basically overcharge for everything. iMessage works like the other messaging apps when everyone is using iPhone.But everyone already got into better operation no one cares about it.

[@toptiertech7291]

Your country is probably a 3rd world country. But people in the US and Europe use iMessage a lot because it integrates with their other devices. Easily answering messages on my iPad, Mac and watch

[@b.c.7662]

In the US message cost in already in the charge, so send text is unlimited and free, WhatsApp type apps use data, data isn’t cheap

[@ados8064]

Andrew, if you get someone to set you up with Home Assistant you can do way more automation. One option is to control what Google says when completing your request, which you can have be nothing.

[@drutalero2962]

Just got the Jan update and my pixel is even more amazing 🤩

[@Jonny-317]

The green color was the standard for all communication apps since the begining. They only just started using blue to differentiate imessage from other messages to show you're using data rather than sms.

[@bijoykochar7339]

My Pixel 6 Pro and Google Home have been conflicting the same way. I have learnt to ignore my phone lighting up, because it almost always lets the Home pick up the query. Was annoying for sure early on because I would shuffle looking between the two devices while speaking, unclear which will respond. :P

[@jaack3on]

My older colleagues at work care about blue bubbles and complain about the colleagues that don’t have iPhones!

[@antonykj9952]

Some bugs you guys mentioned is an Android 12 thing. Been experiencing many notification panel bugs with my Pixel 4a. Espescially the one where the screen just goes blank when pulling down the notification panel. Android 12 is not yet stable.

[@R3YNZ]

Reminds me of Android 6 Marshmallow update. That one was buggy and it was a huge UI overhaul as well. I think it took until 6.1 or 7.0 update to finally iron out all the bugs.

[@parkerlondon9268]

I think something else important with iMessages is the availability/accessibility over wifi

[@timothylee7072]

I own a Pixel 5 and after a few security updates, the phone has slowed down pretty significantly. Theres also a bug when if I am consuming content on KZbin in fullscreen mode, a notification would black out the entire screen but a spot would remain lit up. A restart would fix it momentarily, but it’ll happen again later…

[@RyanSmith-hi2nv]

I have a Pixel 6 and have had a few bugs. I still like it because the call assistant and Google assistant are so amazingly good, but the bugs are annoying. It has an issue with WiFi in that it will be connected, but the internet will stop working and I have to turn it off and just use internet (not an issue with my internet because other devices still work with no issues). On the KZbin app, it's very glitchy. Very often it will try to launch an ad, fail partway through and run the video as though it's an ad.

[@marcochavanne]

I am on my 3rd Pixel 6 Pro. I had hardware issues since launch. Overheating during basic use indoors. Cellular data dropped completely when connected to WIFI. Wifi calling and RCS wouldnt work over Wifi. Lag and crashes. Must have awful luck but the 3rd Pro seems to be working fine so far, thank God.

[@joshkieser9122]

It's the iphone cult mentality. As a teenager with an android phone, while I like having, I have experienced the exclusion. There have been multiple times that I have been excluded from groupchats for having an android. Also, sometimes I will get included in a groupchat but everyone else will revert to a different groupchat for an Iphone experience. There was even a time where my friends spammed me with messages of liking and reacting to messages in order to keep my phone buzzing. I am sick of this and I feel like I am being forced towards an Iphone which I don't want.

[@AdamJakowenko]

Can we please have David be here as a regular on every show for the whole show? He's the best part of this podcast.

[@anandamroy4727]

Flashlight is a feature, IMO. It emits maximum light possible from all the sources, including screen.

[@neelabh06]

Should be tweak-able in that's the case, don't to think?

[@awezman]

Was this posted the day of the January Pixel 6 update after you updated the phone?

[@inmypaants]

I have a pixel 6 (base model 128GB) and can confirm most of the bugs Marcus highlighted. The screen Auto rightness issue was so annoying I just turned it off and I manually control brightness. I keep it at 60% inside and 100% outside and other than needing to toggle it a couple of times per day it doesn't bother me.

[@tekking4043]

Andrew's sweater is sicckkk!!!... LOve it!

[@ricdonato4328]

My phone Samsung Note 20, was eleven year iPhone only user. In 2020 I switched to Android, yes I experienced the video issue. Late 2020 or early 2021 Samsung, maybe Google as well, fixed that issue, now I am not having any issue sending/receiving quality videos to Android and iPhone. As for Android default messaging app, recall 2021 Google included in their OS Google Messages which is RCS. It is now the default messaging app for all new Android phones. Yes, carriers can include their own messaging app as well, but Google made Android's Google Messages the default messaging app for all new Android phones, it is built in their OS the same as Apple Message is on iPhone.

[@savkhetan]

I can confirm almost all the issues on my Google Pixel 6 Pro. I got mine in Nov.

[@Kylefassbinderful]

Maybe it's because I'm an older millennial (born in '86) but I have almost zero interest in read receipts. When I send a text I still feel like I'm sending a message in the same way of using AIM back in the day or sending a physical letter through the post office which is to say that I won't know that they've read it unless they respond. If they choose not to respond and leave me hanging then it is what it is and there's probably a reason. No one is obligated to respond to every message as they're recieved unlike a phone conversation. I feel like letting me know that I'm being ignored is more annoying to me than not knowing. But I feel like this is different based on the individual and that's why I like that it's on option I can turn off and on through my iPhone's settings. I can see why someone who's had read receipts their whole life wouldn't wanna give them up. I'd rather give someone the option to ignore me without letting me know. It sounds rude but sometimes we really just don't wanna interact with people and that should be respected.

[@theglowcloud2215]

"She doesn't know I'm using the Surface Duo" "She knows, and that's why she's not talking to you" lmao

[@jobAStar]

2.42 it's a netherlands tv show called lingo

[@bananawarriorwootwoot]

I have the pixel 6 with no December updates yet. Guess I dodged a bullet. Loving my phone with no issues except fingerprint from time to time.

[@DudeWazap103]

Yeah same here. I have the 6 Pro and i haven't had any of the bugs they have had.

[@FallenArtemie]

What's crazy is that my friend and I who bought the P6 pro haven't had any major bugs. I've noticed that the phone prefers 60fps but no bugs...yet. The thing about Google Home and phone clashing on who should respond is probably due to the Sonos lawsuit, my devices are doing the same thing where they both respond instead of cancelling out one of them because I assume Google no longer has the integration feature enabled due to the outcome of the lawsuit.

[@R3YNZ]

Unfortunately I've had some of those bugs on my P6P as well. I've also had when my screen locks to 60hz my finger print reader doesn't work on always on display.

[@marcusr6201]

38:44 RCS has encryption, but only for 1-to-1 chats. Encrypted group chats aren't even in beta yet. That kinda undercuts the privacy argument somewhat.

[@TechSpaceCowboy]

As a primarily iPhone user, I still would like the messages app to support RCS and bring our phones out of the early 2000’s finally.

[@yashtomar1416]

The thing is that the not being able to switch people to a different messaging app is present everywhere I guess. For example, here in India it's difficult to get people(esp older generation and non tech savvy folk) to switch from watsapp to signal/telegram(mainly because of the possible data concerns because of meta) as most of the people are pretty much used to using the former and just dont want to move to another application.

[@y-yyy]

WOW, I was always wondering what the whole USA messaging thing was about, I had no idea it was so severe and weird, with chat functionality suffering if someone with an Android phone is added and everything. That is insane and I can definitely see how easily that can lead to bullying among kids...

[@jacobleetech]

You thinking of the old "Mastermind" board game with the white and black pins that show if you got the right color/position?

[@saikhanaaz7350]

I use Pixel 3 XL. It was a really good phone at the time of its release and now its just full of bugs. Honestly, sometimes the bugs get me extremely frustrating that I just want to throw it out of the window. I always had been one of those geeks who tries out the beta version and try out dozen of stuff and gives technical feedbacks until June, 2021, when I installed the Android beta 12, which didn't have anything working at the time. I was going to a job interview and had to have an access to my gmail, but even the gmail wasn't even working properly. So I had to go back to the previous version and thats how I lost all my data. And when I explained everything to the customer service representive hoping she would take this feedback but she hang up on me. So yeah, that was basically the end of my enthusiasm with Google Pixel. Now it still has so many bugs, especially while driving when I am going back and forth between Google Map and audio applications. I'm sorry Google, I was an avid fan and supporter for the last 3 years, now my hope is dead. My next phone will be iPhone. Pixel sucks!

[@duster3331]

Juanuary update is here!!

[@RabbilChoudhary]

Hey guys, at 21:39 in this video, my phone's Google assistant woke up by itself. Just around the word you said tensor. 2nd or third time experienced this kind of issue, when nobody said anything like hey Google, assistant woke up by itself.

[@grizzyozz2992]

In regards to the frame rate drop issues, I've noticed that it's not completely random. I have the Pro and I noticed that after wirelessly charging it, whether on the new pixel stand or any other wireless charger, the frame rate will drop to around 60 and won't go back unless you restart the phone. Don't know if maybe you've also been wirelessly charging your pixel 6 Pro but I feel that's the cause of the bug.

[@kamrinkea3183]

you can turn down the google assistant sensitivity in the settings

[@Jtlie]

There's this dutch gameshow called Lingo but that does give you 1 letter

[@puckpuck18]

Dude, i was just about to purchase a Pixel 6 Pro next week I was looking for an Android phone with no bloatwares and an incredible software Pixel and Moto are the only two that came to my mind I thought to wait for a Pixel 6a, but i didn't know when it's releasing You just saved me from a horrible experience Thanks MKBHD and Andrew✌️

[@ssaini5028]

Dude do not take recommendations and advice from YT, MKBHD use case is far what ours

[@jaughnekow]

The Pixel 6 is the best buy now. I dunno what's happening to the Pro models but get the P6. Or wait for the P6a like you said lol

[@toptiertech7291]

@@ssaini5028 idk. I see a lot of comments on this video saying very similar things

[@speedemon81]

@@toptiertech7291 In r/android it's an absolute spectrum of issues with the 6P/6 that not everyone has or only people have some of for some reason.

[@puckpuck18]

@@ssaini5028 from what I've heard, the issues regarding the notifications and the phone slowing down Nobody let alone MKBHD wouldn't want that And, couldn't care less about the high refresh rate But, if there's bugs in the software.. i ain't getting that

[@NathanMillerVisuals]

The android green bubbles are strictly physiological. They totally did some R&D on which green sets some people off. Cause the SMS color definitely changed when iMessage rolled out.

[@hamza-chaudhry]

14:05 18:22 My notification pull down on my Pixel 5 is always bugging, showing a faint circle. It's hard to explain but it's weird.

[@brandonmyers2449]

One interesting thing that was brought to my attention about the green messages on iPhone is that it is your own messages that are blue or green. Not sure what that means but I feel like there is some message there for apple to be sayong

[@toptiertech7291]

It’s to inform you if you sent a text message or iMessage to the person. There’s no hidden messages. It’s just letting you know what you sent. Samsung default is the same way. The receiving message is white and the sending is blue

[@TheDoubleRiot]

Just amazing.

[@potatoman7475]

16:34....WoW! Samsung is lookin really good right now.😂😂😂

[@KoldSteel1990]

I think there is an ambient light sensor on the front and back of the phone.

[@deezye636]

So what is the texting method of android users? Does each phone come with a default messaging app?

[@Trajce_Hybrid]

Instagram snapchat or sms

[@vedaryan334]

Everyone uses WhatsApp.

[@DeanGoldbaum]

Celsius also makes a TON of sense compared to Fahrenheit... For water, 0 degrees is freezing and 100 degrees is boiling... pretty easy to wrap your head around those numbers

[@toptiertech7291]

Yes for science. With water and liquid. But for people not so much. You’re right about the 0-100 which is why the weather system generally uses 0-100 in F. Instead of a -17.7 to 38° C range. That’s not as easy to wrap your head around

[@unkitjc]

This iMessage ecosystem thing happened about a decade ago amongst teens / a certain age group in India when BBM was the cool thing to have, until WhatsApp took over everything

[@TomFewchuk]

This is such an interesting discussion and so bizarre to me coming from Australia as a 27 year old. 95% of the people I message, we all use Facebook Messenger to communicate (as it is technically speaking the best messaging service out there). There's a decent population of Asian Australians who use WhatsApp as their default and very few I know who use iMessage group messages or at least persist on making those groups happen. Everyone gets on fine communicating through third party apps like Messenger and WhatsApp and this is with majority of my friends owning iPhones (though I do use an Android). I wonder how 'American cultural' this is or is it just a reflection of Marques and Andrew's circles..

[@infra1]

One issue I'm super curious to know if anyone else had come across is the screen itself has movement / play by the notch. If you tap around the notch you would hear a click it a tick. The screen isn't flush with the internals and has movement.

[@dalewisdom8633]

Updated to January update from November. Finger print sensor is better. Forced the update due to 3 button navigation freezing. Pixel 6. So far, so good.

[@rubenmoreno407]

Andrew, I've had the same issue with my Pixel 3. If the squeeze to activate the assistant was on, the assistant always gets triggered especially when tipping the phone to an angle. It's ridiculous, Google couldn't even help me, said there was no issue.

[@jakefrazier1]

Why does everyone say the carriers have to adopt this. The major carriers have already said future devices will default with Google/Android Messages. Verizon has also stated RCS will be added to their app.. I believe the same is for Samsung.

[@freyhofer]

Your video on RCS could make a big difference by raising attention which could lead to apple integrating it.

[@Baksh15]

I have to give you credit for not second guessing to send that tweet out in fears of tarnishing your relationship (if any) with Google.

[@RealWorldReview]

The most confusing part about M1 comparisons have to be that these companies are trying to be efficient, but lots of work loads won’t even function on Mac, especially with dropped Bootcamp support. So cool, intel or amd makes something new and more efficient, maybe even better. But if you need something like FCP, then you’ll never go to a newer intel if apple actually prevents intel from making a max moving forward.

[@alot_of_ducks]

The Twitter bug fixed for me on the February update

[@theslade6973]

The really frustrating thing about messaging apps on iPhone is you can't switch your default from iMessage. Like on Android you have Signal handle Signal messages and SMS messages. On iPhone you're stuck with having to use two apps which is frustrating.

[@leonardocalzadillas2369]

Snacks ready, galaxy buds in, let's listen!

[@mrbobo86]

Those issues with swipe down can be changed. Just use nova launcher. You can customize the hell out of the swiping gestures

[@pippen2887]

this situation pixel is having kinda reminds me of the stuff that's been happening with Tesla, like conceptually they are great and should work on paper its that they r a bit rough around the edges.

[@oussamazatout4115]

Since we are talking about bugs, i had this strange bug where my IPhone 13 Pro Max turn the volume to 100% for a split second while watching content. On IOS 15.2.

[@Hopefully2025]

At 13:26 How did no one comment about this huge lag in the edit!?

[@Kylefassbinderful]

11:38 That fingerprint reader is very slow. It's slower than 1st gen touch ID.