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Android features I'm envy of as an iPhone user


Since 2015, my daily driver phone is an iPhone. In this almost a decade, I have been closely following the moves of the only iOS alternative, Google’s Android.

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) forced Apple to open iOS more, creating holes in the famous walled garden that the company has built around its ecosystem and that leaves on the sidelines what goes against its interests. This is, unlike the browsers ballot screen, one of the most faithful to the “spirit of the law” results of DMA, which is to foster competition in digital markets stagnated by big tech. For a few years now, Samsung has been offering DeX, which adapts the Android of some more expensive phones in the Galaxy line to large screens by connecting them to a keyboard, mouse and external monitor.

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