been using the iphone for some days now, and I must say im impressed. I really like it. I will not buy android phone ever again.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no it’s just made so much better 😆
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no People really are different. 😅 I can’t stand Apple stuff at all.
The only good thing is that they support iPhones for a long-ish time. The Android ecosystem is so ridiculously fucked up in that regard. Especially when you buy cheap Android phones, they are pretty much guaranteed to never receive updates … I almost think this should be illegal.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de What is ti that you don’t like about Apple products? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net I’ll try to write a proper answer when I’m in a better mood. 😅 At the moment, I’m unbelievably pissed (because of other things). 🤣
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fair 🤗
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ve got good news for you, in Europe “software updates will also have to be made available for at least 5 years after retiring a product from the market”.
@marado@twtxt.net Oh wow. 🤔 Let’s see how well that works in practice.
(I’d still prefer it if smartphones/tablets were more like the PC world, where installing arbitrary OSes is the norm: Nobody stops me from running a current Linux distro on my 15 year old machine. But I’m afraid that ship has sailed.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Well, lots of curse words, but it sums up my thoughts pretty nicely. 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net To elaborate a bit more:
I’m a control freak and a tinkerer. Almost everything I do in the realm of computers is about understanding how it works and being able to tweak it. I rarely care about “just getting things done”.
And I’m tired of fighting. Sure, what I want to do might be possible on macOS or Windows or Android or whatever – but those systems are not meant to be used like I want to. On the other hand, Linux and BSD give me all the tools I need and they don’t get in my way (usually – OpenBSD can be quite opinionated).
Smartphones and tablets are a lost cause to me. Most manufacturers obviously hate it if the user is in control of anything, so they lock it all down. Android is the lesser evil (last time I tried it wasn’t that hard to write your Android app, but that was like 10 years ago) and it offers you slightly more options than iOS (simple things like settings your own ringtone …), but it’s still not something that I enjoy using.
More: gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2021-08/2021-08-25–the-ideal-smartphone.txt
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Btw, if you want a more “tinkerer-friendly” smartphone… Linux on smartphones is becoming a thing again. Have you checked out a device like the PinePhone lately?
@shreyan@twtxt.net Hmm, no, I’ve lost track of Pine stuff a while ago. 🤔 Maybe I’ll have another look some day.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de yea interesting hypothetical ideal “smartphone”. You’re not the only one with this ideal in mind btw 🤗
Funny.. I would never buy an iPhone again. My wife switched back this last phone update and I can’t stand the interface.
If you are going to compare iPhone with android you can’t just throw out bargan bin android phones.. Should compare within the same price points like the Pixel, Galaxy, Pine, or OnePlus models.
@xuu O guess it’s what you get used to on some level – For example I’ll never go back to Android as I find the UI/UX just awful 🤦♂️