Yes, 30 days for manufacturer defects.
Eric self-funded Core Devices and likely doesn’t want to take on what would effectively be personal liability. So I presume it will always be 30 days unless they get more leverage with their manufacturing contract (e.g. larger volumes)
Edit: Or I suppose if they earn back the initial investment and become fully sustainable, then maybe they’d be able to extend warranty and eat that cost themselves
You can install any app on it. That’s in the FAQ. I believe it means messaging apps are specifically given first-class support on the home screen dashboard and notification LED
That would be maddening. It seems wild that all of these voice assistants (LLM or no) are a decade old and still have very basic issues and limitations. I wonder if these huge companies are bad at product development or if it’s simply a doomed category?
Pretty sure if you downloaded/updated from within the app you should be fine, as the threat is for net new installs
That’s not true. The YouTube scam baiters are on the phone with the same scammers for many hours
This is because of excessive early production to curb scalpers. It’s not a fair comparison
Huh. I’ve heard of Risk of Rain before but when Steam recommended it to me I thought it was a JRPG
First, does any phone running a legit copy of Android count as a “certified Android device”?
Yes
How can they enforce this for apps not on the play store?
Checks will be built into the operating system and run on install attempts
Like if write my own APK will my phone just refuse to run it if I don’t go through some paperwork with Google?
Yes
How does that work?
TBD. Probably a database check
Like if they’re capable of this then why aren’t they doing it already to prevent piracy?
Piracy of what?
While initially fun, the fact that it’s limited to 7 levels is its Achilles’ heel. It’s relatively short and easy to win. That’s not inherently bad, especially for a mobile game, but it’s sort of counterintuitive for a roguelike IMO
This reminds me of Radiant, one of my favorite Android games
Looks like no. According to their GitHub they’re a solo dev in need of financial support
Nintendo sucks
any of the thousands of games that predate “the cloud” or games that don’t even have a save feature.
Well sure, but those games were all made with that specific context in mind. You don’t simply start over BotW each time and have as good of an experience, because that’s not how it was designed. You don’t design 25+ hours worth of content for a campaign and expect it to be fine for players to lose their progress. This is a portalable gaming handheld we’re talking about. You can drop it. You can lose it. Spills happen. SD cards get corrupted.
Besides, if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product not the consumer.
It wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t a walled garden. Forcing payment for a basic feature plus not allowing any alternatives is classic anti-competitive behavior.
Lack of free cloud saves is a non-starter. Why spend hundreds of hours on a save that can be gone at a moment’s notice?
They don’t support RCS which is a deal breaker for me currently