Realizing that like 75% of the benefits of the Pixel 3 are coming to the Pixel 2/2XL as system upgrades really saps any motivation to upgrade if you already own a Pixel 2.

And they’re free to do that. Youtube, however, as a private company, has no obligation to provide the means for them to do it. It’s their house, they set the rules, if you don’t like it you can host your shit somewhere else.

Hey Patrick, do you think you could add the OS to the title of This App is Fire posts in the future? Makes the posts easier to scan for relevance and on the main page and through RSS feed.

Regarding “just working”, try a Google Pixel phone, which is what you should compare to iOS, not Android (Google has little control what goes on with Android on non-Google devices). I have a Pixel 2 and it is sleeker and works better then any iPhone I have ever seen (how about compare Apple Car Play to Android Auto...…

On the privacy front... Apple’s privacy policy gives them the right to collect any and all personal data on you in a personally identifiable form. You are reading it wrong as it is deliberately written by a legal team in this way... In the sentence preceding the topic “What personal information we collect”, it says…