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MagicMoonlightyesterday at 2:05 PM3 repliesview on HN

And this is why androidlets will never win. They’re too busy selling your data to ever think of disabled people or usability.

iOS is just painfully good. I can pause a video, put my finger on text inside the video, and copy it. Until they added it, I didn’t even know how much I needed that.


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lern_too_speltoday at 1:56 AM

Live captions has existed for more than 6 years on Android. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/on-device-captioning-with-...

Selecting text from anything displayed on the screen for more than 7 years. https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/165834/android-9-pie...

I guess if you knew people using Android, you would have known you needed it 7 years ago?

f33d5173yesterday at 2:07 PM

Until they added it, you didn't need it, then suddenly a phone was unusable without it.

NicuCalceayesterday at 2:14 PM

I can do that on my Pixel 6.

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