Android Days two and three: There has to be a way to make this better

Where I become frustrated with the out of the box experience and try to improve things.

On Day two with my android phone, I started bright and early, determined to move a bunch of accounts over and set up my apps. I got my email set up, Reddit logged in, and...after about two hours, I knew I had to find a better way if Android was going to be viable for my use cases.

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Android Day One: How do I go home?

The phone arrives, and I unbox and turn it on.

In spite of my Google payment problems, my new Pixel 9A arrived late in the day yesterday. Unfortunately, I had a dinner to get to, and some shopping to accomplish, so I didn't get to spend the entire evening with the phone.

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Day Zero On My Android Journey

Wherein I talk about what I tried to buy, and why I don't have it yet.

In a recent State of Mobile App Accessibility Survey, (disclosure: I, and the organization where I work, had some involvement in this survey) Android apps scored as slightly more accessible overall than IOS apps. As a life-long IOS user, since the iPhone 3GS, I found this finding slightly surprising. Of course, as with any result that goes against our preconvictions, it could be easily rationalized away:

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