this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
607 points (96.5% liked)

Technology

60085 readers
3114 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months::Two years on a Pixel Pass was supposed to get you a new phone.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (15 children)

But why iPhone?

I went to search for what the best phones are. Now I'm on OnePlus 8T for the past three years and the device still kicks most phones asses for what was a good price. I'll use this for another two years I guess and then I'll look at what is the best phone again. It won't be iPhone, that's for sure

Apple products are overpriced like hell, and simply not yours to do with what you want.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Probably because it's not 2010 and both platforms are matured to the point of being able to do almost the exact same things for the majority of users, so it's just down to small personal preferences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

iPhone is still WAY more expensive, more prone to failure, harder and more expensive to repair, and you can't do the same with the device as on an android. So as long as you are a rich non-power user with little technical knowledge and don't care about the money, then I guess iPhones (and apple in general) are okay, I guess.

That also directly describes most Apple users

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anything that’s nonsense, iPhones are cheaper and easier to get repaired and far less to failure and I say this as someone who runs a store that sells phones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iPhones are cheaper than Android phones? And they're easier to repair?

I'm sorry but both those claims are lies. iPhones and apple hardware in general always is more expensive for less hardware. And though I'm sure there are some hard to repair Android phones out there, apple typically makes sure you get sabotaged if you don't repair your hardware at their stores and yes, their repair services are insanely expensive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try to as a normal non technical user get a random £200-300 android phone repaired that isn’t Samsung and then try to get an iPhone repaired and see the cost difference

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)