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Having just bought an iPad I keep bumping into things that are trivial on Android but don't work on Apple and can't be easily fixed without "sideloading" - chan
by mhh__ 5y ago
Having just bought an iPad I keep bumping into things that are trivial on Android but don't work on Apple and can't be easily fixed without "sideloading" - change a file extension? Had to use a shortcut, wtf. Play a .mkv file with a codec my android phone works with? doesn't work, apple won't let VLC ship it apparently. Transfer arbitrary files over usb without iTunes? Apparently impossible
- spacechild1 5y ago> Transfer arbitrary files over usb without iTunes? This is one of my biggest gripes with the iPhone. Why do consumers put up with this?
- mhh__ 5y agoI think the answer is usually that Apple are very sneaky in how they brand things (even small things) so the conversation is usually "I can do anything you can do on an Android" "What about [this]" "Oh I don't do that", and for an example of the branding point - the M1 is very very nice, but one of the reason it feels extremely fast is because people are upgrading from more than half-a-decade old hardware because Apple don't really make any distinction beyond the number after the i