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About to consider iPhone for the first time. Looks like I'm sticking with Android.
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Apple is doing what we call "Kicking and screaming like a child".
Eventually they'll have to open up everywhere, but for now they're only doing it where legally required.
Luckily the first year or so won't be useful, just interesting. Eventually someone is going to find a way to make money in this space and the countries listed will have the appropriate politicians bribed and it will open up. Sadly that's probably another 2-5 years away.
They will never have to open up in the USA, because they own the people who would legislate them.
Yes, but in Capitalism v Capitalism, Capitalism wins. Apple will conceed, eventually, but not for many years. 2 to 5 is my estimate, but it may take much longer.
Personally swapped from android to iphone and haven’t looked back. But of course each to their own!
Admitting you like iOS on Lemmy is not a bold move, my friend
I like iOS. Fight me.
Apple SUCK
Hmm good point, I had not considered that!
Eh, they make some good stuff, the iPhone is good, but I can't stand OSX...
The hardware is durable, I'll give you that. I use a 2015 Macbook Air at work for SSH and VNC (running Linux Mint of course) and with the exception of the battery and lid sensor, it's still in good condition.
But their policies and recent decisions make me want to never interact with them at any level.
My 2011 15” MacBook Pro gets 1.5 playthroughs of Beetlejuice on max brightness on its ORIGINAL BATTERY!
Granted, it has less than 30 cycles…
Honestly, I think OS X is better than it’s been in years. I don’t love the way settings are laid out now, but aside from that, the integration between devices is unbelievable. I don’t even need a KVM switch it’s so good.
I’d switch my iPhone before I’d switch to windows. But I’d also switch to Linux before windows.
I thought everyone here was on graphene os /s
Real Lemmy users use Arch Linux and read Lemmy using Vim
The real question is: Which Vim plugin manager to they use?
TIL I am ethereal. Arch yes, VIM nfw. Nano until vscode is installed; VIM and emacs can die in a fire. Caveat: I only switched to arch so I could say, "Arch btw"
I thought I was the only person that used nano until something else was installed (Pycharm in my case, but I can't hate on VS Code too much).
Fuck graphene OS I am not buying a Pixel just to use it.
Its pretty good. Its unfortunate there isn't broader hardware support.
Their phones are alright. Their iPads are second to none - Android tablets don’t even come close to comparing. Macs are horrible though; The only reason they’ve survived is because they have a lot of proprietary software that you can’t find on Windows or Linux. Every time I’m forced to use a Mac for work, it’s a soul-sucking experience and I want to drag Apple’s lead designer out back and give them the Office Space treatment. When choosing a computer/laptop OS for personal use, I’d fucking use MS-DOS before I considered a Mac.
There's a bit more nuance to the tablet debate. If your price point is $800+, then yeah the iPads are best (unless you want the best media watching experience, then the Samsung ultra is a real competitor), but under $500 and there's a very good argument for Android. You can get an iPad with an A14 Bionic for the same price as a galaxy tab S8. Their graphical performance is within 2% of each other, CPU performance is about 15% better on the iPad, but the Samsung has a 120hz screen and the iPad has a 60hz screen. Also the aspect ratio for the Samsung is closer to 16:9, so more screen for media.
The above is also purely hardware focused. Most people swear by an O.S due to familiarity or features. Some people like Android's customizability or power. Emulators for example require jailbreaking on iOS, on Android you can just install emulators, install Linux distributions (I have an ARM install of Ubuntu on mine), and other things like that that would normally require jailbreaking on iOS. On Android you can also root your phone or install a custom ROM to customize your phone even more or get even more power, things that just aren't possible on iOS.
Meanwhile people usually "like" iOS for ecosystem features. If regulations ever open up iMessage, FaceTime, etc. to the wider smartphone market, Apple's market share in the phone space could definitely crash, because a lot of iOS users aren't actually passionate about their operating system, they just want access to the ecosystem.
Btw i am not in EU but i can easily sideload apps using Altstore
You still can’t sideload apps? (Signed, an EU citizen)
I can, cause I don't have an iPhone
For context (I had to google this myself,) sideloading is installing an app not from the app store.
It's kind of crazy to me that we've gotten to the point where people don't understand that things can be installed on computers from places other than the "official app store".
Like, if you use Windows, you are "sideloading" all the time. Anytime you install something that didn't come from the Microsoft store, which is a fair amount of popular software.
Because that's how this shit is supposed to work. You have a computer, that you own, and the ultimate authority over what goes on that computer lies with you, the owner, and no one else. If it can run on the computer, you run it, and no one can tell you no.
But these tech companies have so thoroughly trained so many tech illiterate people and an entire generation of young users into accepting the locks and restrictions all around them as the norm. They'll punish you for even attempting to break those locks and use the computer you paid for the way you fucking want. It's really fucking sad there isn't more hard pushback on this.
I often forget that the Windows store exists.