Walled gardens work by making things harder to leave. It isn't that iPhones are necessarily better devices. It is that leaving them is too painful. AirDrop was an important anchor in this strategy. If everyone in your social circle or office uses AirDrop, switching to a Galaxy makes you a burden to the group. You become the person who forces everyone to use a third-party app or wait for a slow cloud link. By making the S26 AirDrop-compatible, Samsung has neutralized this. I can now stand in a group of iPhone users, take a group photo on my S26 Ultra — which has a better camera anyway — and Air
Samsung just added AirDrop to the Galaxy S26, and the walled garden is officially dead…This design allows for tighter hardware-software integration than Google might achieve with a third-party SoC. Apple can attest to that. It has relied on its Bionic silicon in the iPhone…
…I was not comfortable giving a third-party app or tool access to my contacts to fix the mess. That is, until I realized I could use Google Sheets and Gemini to…
…Previously, whenever I needed to fill out a form, I would usually download the PDF, send it to my laptop, open it in a third-party PDF editing app , make the edits…
…It was only with future OS updates that Google built on this improvement, adding support for tiles from third-party apps, and more recently, the ability to resize tiles. I still remember…
…Google launched it in 2016 and spent years integrating it into Android, Wear OS, Android Auto, Nest displays and speakers, Google TV, and even third-party smart home devices. It was the…
…I could install a third-party case, but that completely spoils the premium aesthetic I wanted in the first place. I’m not sure how Google will do it, but I’d…
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