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This feature and fb's hate for it makes me seriously consider moving back to. iOS.
by acruns 6y ago
This feature and fb's hate for it makes me seriously consider moving back to. iOS.
- throw14082020 6y agoI just moved to iOS last week. Google won't be thinking about a move like this for at least a few years, if ever. The new iphones just got released, its almost the perfect time
- nerbert 6y agoYeah it’s nice of Facebook to tell us how serious these changes are.
- mekster 6y agoIt just proved iOS team already succeeded with the change even before deploying.
- rorykoehler 6y agoI’m on iOS primarily for this reason. If you don’t want to pay the Apple tax just get second hand devices. I just upgraded to the iPhone 8 and it’s perfect. Feels premium still. Does everything I need.
- slipper1 6y agoYou still have to pay the Apple tax on all IAPs.
- rorykoehler 6y agoI don't have any IAP. All the services I use that I pay for I signed up via the web.
- srg0 6y agoGoogle takes a similar cut on IAPs too, doesn't it? It just allows to integrate other payment methods in apps. It always felt fishy to enter CC number in an app. I still prefer to pay from the web sites where I can see the URL.
- lordnacho 6y agoIf you look at countries that have a tax on new cars, second hand cars in those countries are also expensive. Less expensive than new cars, but the tax is still there. You could argue that the tax incorporated in the price comes down with depreciation though.
- judge2020 6y agothe SE 2 is also a pretty good price, it's only a generation behind in the processor department (7nm A13), has touch ID (no mask moving for face ID) and is $400 (449 for 128gb). Apple's margins for this device can't be large given the iP8 it's modeled after costed $700 at launch.
- tolbish 6y agoIt looks fantastic. The only downside for me is that it lacks a headphone jack. How easy is it to port contacts and texts over from the Google ecosystem?
- baggachipz 6y agoExtremely. Moving from Android to iOS was totally painless for me.
- rorykoehler 6y agoYou can get a mobile Bluetooth transmitter/receiver so you can still use your cabled headphones.
- mekster 6y agoJust get Lightning to mobile jack adapter?
- jumelles 6y agoI've had an SE 2 since May, it works flawlessly. I was worried I'd miss the headphone jack but wireless headphones fill the gap well.
- mekster 6y agoI never understood what Apple tax is. They deliver according to their price. It's just people don't realize the value.
- rorykoehler 6y agoI don’t disagree but their markups on storage and memory for example are way above normal market rates.
- mekster 6y agoNo, you get that idea wrong... It's great Apple pretty much delivers identical devices on a same product line except on the disk space. It's more than the disks for laptops but this means everyone pretty much gets the same experience even if you get the cheapest version and you don't have to go through the technical spec sheet that most people don't understand to figure what you're missing from the more expensive versions or you're physically missing on some features. You'd rather get the same stuff at cheaper price if you don't care about disk space. It's not the disk space is more expensive than market price...
- jungturk 6y agoHe's not wrong. The RAM is definitely more expensive to buy from Apple, to the point that I buy the iMac with the base 8GB and then replace with aftermarket RAM and save hundreds of dollars (approximately 15-20% of the price of the entire system). Fortunately, servicing the iMac RAM is easy in present generations.
- w0utert 6y agoYes the Streisand effect is strong on this one :D
- baggachipz 6y agoIf you're pissing off facebook, you're doing something right.
- silicon2401 6y agoI would consider it except it often feels like iOS was designed specifically to aggravate me. I can hardly remember another interface I've used that was as painful. Is there any way to customize the UI on iOS or is it still just whatever apple decides for you? I remember jailbreaking used to be popular, not sure if people still do that
- trinix912 6y agoSome still do, but it's quite an effort to go through for not as many possibilities as there used to be. Most of the features that once required jailbreaking are already baked into the OS by now and theming is not as big as it used to be. That being said, there are still some useful tweaks that convince people into doing it, and of course if one wants to just test their apps without worrying about signing them.
- utf_8x 6y agoOne of the reasons I've been on iOS for a few years now. As things stand, Apple is probably the least untrustworthy tech giant out there. I still don't trust them, but I'd rather go with Apple than Google at the moment.
- srg0 6y agoI never used an iOS device, but if Apple pulls this off, my next phone might be an iPhone.