I got my pixel 8 pro in Jordan for 470 USD, imported AT&T model unlocked 128gb but it was in prestine condition and no box no accessories More on reddit.com

I'm on the jump to buy a Google 8 (nonPro) I ask my self if it's worth to get the 256 GB storage variant (prize plus ~100 €) currently I've ~30 Apps on my old device (Samsung S4). The most storage consumer off them is mapfactor (offline... More on xdaforums.com

Regarding apps, it's quite difficult for Android apps to get the same level of animations, transitions and polish as their iOS counterparts. iOS runs only in high end devices. Every iPhone is a high end device the moment it launches, with performance (and price) that makes them one of the fastest phones of their year. No matter the version you choose, you are getting a device with a state of the art SOC and displays and cameras that go from good to excellent. Not so much for Android. Even if there are flagships with power (and price) rivaling with the iPhone of the year, there are millions of devices that are launched with a fraction of their power. And, ironically, people tend to conserve them for longer. If you have money to spend in a 1500€ phone, it's probable that you will change your phone to the next flagship in a year or two. If your budget goes around 100-150€, it's way more probable that you will hold to the phone until it breaks. And, if you treat it well, it might last for several years. And the moment it breaks, you'll buy another crappy entry level phone with Android. And for every "rich guy" able to afford a flagship per year, there are 100 "poor guys" holding on to their entry level phones. So you have this situation in which you have an operating system with apps which are sure to run in hardware powerful enough to sustain high quality graphics and animations and another OS and apps that have to make sure to run at least decently in a wide range of configurations, from entry level to flagship phones. Take for example Whatsapp. It's used by 2.7 BILLION users. Most of them in developing countries. 70% of them using Android. Most of them not wanting to spend more than a couple of hundreds in a phone. And it has to make sure that it runs well in those devices. Their base requirement is Android 5.0, released in 2014, which introduced the first serious animation framework on Android. Their base OS was Android 4.4 just a few months ago. On iOS their base requirement is iOS 12, released in 2018. Four years later. And considering that iOS has always had a fantastic animations framework so it's a given for iOS apps to run in hardware that's way more powerful than the average Android phone with a way more recent API as base. People here ask, for example, for Whatsapp to deprecate the Camera API in favor of the newer Camera2 API. But the Camera2 API was launched with Lollypop, which is the base of Whatsapp since a few months back. And even if they decided to do it, this API is not implemented by all manufacturers and the ones that do it, do it with different levels of integration, from basic to full. So using this API won't solve all camera problems. Not at least for millions of devices. In fact, it can be worse for millions of devices. Even high end devices that may not implement the Camera 2 API correctly or fully. When developing the same functionality for iOS, you can make sure that the API you're using will be well and fully implemented by every iPhone that's supported. The same for animations, transitions, etc. So the problem with Android is not something out of lack of skills by developers, or money spent by companies. Is that big applications, used by millions of people, have to run well in millions of devices, most of them with different versions and implementation of a OS that is designed to run on every possible device under the sun. And compete with an OS and APIs designed to run only in a handful of very powerful devices. I'd say that, given the situation, Android applications are quite polished and run quite well. Specially if you compare them to how they were just a few years ago. More on reddit.com

Plus 1. I also ran into the same issue and I was asked to share a support bundle for debug and thats it. No other help More on reddit.com