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> Smartphone hardware is done. There's no significant gain in buying a new smartphone if you have bought one in last 3 years Agreed. Even a Xiaomi Mi A2 with A
by Tepix 7y ago
> Smartphone hardware is done. There's no significant gain in buying a new smartphone if you have bought one in last 3 years
Agreed. Even a Xiaomi Mi A2 with Android One for 130-150€ is almost on par with these high end phones that cost eight times as much: It's fast enough. It has a gorgeous display. It has a decent camera and it has up-to-date software.
In these times of diminishing returns it's amazing that Apple is able to fetch these prices. It shows us how much of a vendor lockin there is. Perhaps (hopefully) also how much people are willing to pay extra for more privacy.
- oldboyFX 7y agoI doubt many people are buying iPhones for extra privacy.
- Lio 7y agoWell I am. It's anecdotal but it's the one thing that keeps me on iOS. I'd bet given the rise in privacy plugin use for browsers (Privacy Badger, uBlock, etc) I'm not the only one doing that either.
- master-litty 7y agoI am, but I definitely agree many people don't consider privacy in that choice.
- graeme 7y agoI am. Will not switch to Android unless there is some astonishing quality difference. Snd it can't be a small number, as Apple constantly mentions privacy in their marketing, down to the level of individual services. For the subset of people who care, they're virtually a monopoly.
- MaupitiBlue 7y agoI am.
- mickael-kerjean 7y agoA privacy conscious company wouldn't remove from their app store all the VPN apps as they did in China
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoPrivacy policy is great, what about actual security?[1] [1]:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/apple-takes-flak-for-disputing-ios-security-bombshell-dropped-by-google/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/apple...