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If I may ask, why do you still persist with apple products then? Sounds like masochism from here...

by pietrovismara 6y ago

amatecha 6y ago
I have no intention of buying more at this point. The last was the iPhone 8 in 2017. No clue yet what I'll do in the future for a smartphone, because I don't see Android as an option at all. Hopefully this iPhone 8 lasts forever :)
- pietrovismara 6y ago
  Personally I find smartphones less and less useful. I use them mostly to stay in touch with people or to read articles online, and I do all my work from a laptop anyway. I used to buy flagship Android phones but I realized that it's wasted money. Now I have a 200€ Samsung phone, it works fine, yesterday it fell and the screen glass broke a bit, I couldn't care less. If I keep going at this rate, I think I will quit smartphones within a few years.
  - Yetanfou 6y ago
    Get a server or some hosting, load it with whatever you need - mail, web, cloudy things, media, communications etc - and use a portable terminal to access it when on the move. That portable terminal can be a phone with a browser or some future device which is more tailored to this type of application. With the current generation of SoC, Wasm and a capable browser (Firefox Nightly Preview is shaping up nicely) this setup is a viable replacement for most 'apps'. One of the advantages of such a setup is that those 'apps' do no get to track your every move - that is, as long as that capability is not built into the browser at some stage (persistent web workers etc).
- vbezhenar 6y ago
  iPhone SE is iPhone 8 on steroids.
m463 6y ago
this is sort of an ecosystem pattern. First xbox was offline, subsequent xboxes were more intrusive first windows pcs were offline, now they have become spy ("telemetry") machines Apple has reigned itself in (a bit), but they just as stubbornly put business decisions above user wants.

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If I may ask, why do you still persist with apple products then? Sounds like masochism from here...

by pietrovismara 6y ago

If I may ask, why do you still persist with apple products then? Sounds like masochism from here...

amatecha 6y ago
I have no intention of buying more at this point. The last was the iPhone 8 in 2017. No clue yet what I'll do in the future for a smartphone, because I don't see Android as an option at all. Hopefully this iPhone 8 lasts forever :)
- pietrovismara 6y ago
  Personally I find smartphones less and less useful. I use them mostly to stay in touch with people or to read articles online, and I do all my work from a laptop anyway. I used to buy flagship Android phones but I realized that it's wasted money. Now I have a 200€ Samsung phone, it works fine, yesterday it fell and the screen glass broke a bit, I couldn't care less. If I keep going at this rate, I think I will quit smartphones within a few years.
  - Yetanfou 6y ago
    Get a server or some hosting, load it with whatever you need - mail, web, cloudy things, media, communications etc - and use a portable terminal to access it when on the move. That portable terminal can be a phone with a browser or some future device which is more tailored to this type of application. With the current generation of SoC, Wasm and a capable browser (Firefox Nightly Preview is shaping up nicely) this setup is a viable replacement for most 'apps'. One of the advantages of such a setup is that those 'apps' do no get to track your every move - that is, as long as that capability is not built into the browser at some stage (persistent web workers etc).
- vbezhenar 6y ago
  iPhone SE is iPhone 8 on steroids.
m463 6y ago
this is sort of an ecosystem pattern. First xbox was offline, subsequent xboxes were more intrusive first windows pcs were offline, now they have become spy ("telemetry") machines Apple has reigned itself in (a bit), but they just as stubbornly put business decisions above user wants.