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> and you'll all keep buying shovelling money into their pocketbooks Because for me as a user everything else is even worse. Generally nowadays _everything_ is
by p2t2p 5y ago
> and you'll all keep buying shovelling money into their pocketbooks
Because for me as a user everything else is even worse. Generally nowadays _everything_ is pile of crap in some way or another, Apple's is just a pile that stinks for me a little less.
Mobile alternative my recent Android phone from Motorola (Moto 5G Plus):
- I haven't seen ROM update in a while and
- Unremovable hidden Facebook services binaries in the very core of the OS (de-bloater from F-Droid dealt with it)
- Facebook pre-installed
- No mail client (no, Gmail doesn't count)
- No caldav client (purchase for 15 AUD in Google Play, comes stock on every Apple device)
- No cardav client (purchase for 15 AUD in Google Play, comes stock on every Apple device)
- No way to stop apps running in background
- Absolute barrage of notifications about features I don't care about that won't go away until I click them.
- Absolutely idiotic approach to photos where every app lists _every_ image on the device in photos. My 100gb music collection with folder images simply crashes most gallery apps.
- The amount of ads is just staggering compared to iOS
- No ad-blocking in the browser (Safari on iOS provides a framework, you install an app and you don't see ads anymore, I was unpleasantly surprised when I tried surfing the web in Chrome on that Moto phone)
- Google Photos simply blocks the screen with suggestion to back up everything to the cloud on each launch and I have to dismiss every time.
OS Alternative:
- Linux - good luck making 4k scree snappy and god forbid you have your laptop monitor with different scaling settings
- Linux - general hardware support is meh, had huge troubles with my wifi printer
- Linux - convenience apps - like photo gallery and stuff, almost none - there are either too simple apps or monstrous combine harvesters.
- Linux - public wifis is still a trouble, getting to those login portals is flakey, sometimes you get there automatically, sometimes you have to figure out yourself how to get there.
- Linux - good luck finding a decent email client. Best I could do is neomutt + notmuch but Apple's Mail achieves the same setup I had there in 5 minutes of clicking instead of couple days of tweaking configs.
- Linux - still comes to a halt when I'm trying to copy a 10GB file somewhere.
- Windows: spyware-as-a-service
- Windows: no native unix tools, only through a layer of virtualisation
- Windows: terminal emulator still sucks and slow af, see "refterm" by Casey Muratori.
- Windows: convenience apps nearly impossible to find (on Apple platform you get full office suite, video editor, photo library solutions, music making thingy, etc, etc for free).
- Widows: usability choices suck, like hibernating my surface sometime after I lock the screen so I have to wait good 10 - 20 seconds for it to wake up when I need it. Had to hack something in registry to get "old" power controls back to remove that crap.
- Windows: email clients _all_suck_, the last half-decent client was Outlook 2010. (Well, Thunderbird is ok-ish)
- Windows: still no caldav, no cardav (you can hack shit together by going iCloud road and replacing URLs in buil-in clients)
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- arepublicadoceu 5y agoI believe you made a few very good points, but I will argue against some that I disagree and some disadvantages that you overlooked from Apple (I'm an iphone user). > No way to stop apps running in background Its been three years since I used Androids but there was absolutely a way to kill / freeze background Apps > No ad-blocking in the browser (Safari on iOS provides a framework, you install an app and you don't see ads anymore, I was unpleasantly surprised when I tried surfing the web in Chrome on that Moto phone) Adblocking is what I hate the most on iOS and what will probably drive me away from the platform. Good luck finding anything remotely as useful as ublock origin on Apple (No, no amount of content blocking apps can deliver the granularity of uBlock, if you want an example, try blocking youtube ads lately) > Absolutely idiotic approach to photos where every app lists _every_ image on the device in photos. My 100gb music collection with folder images simply crashes most gallery apps. You probably never heard of the ".nomedia" flag right? You can easily prevent any image from going into gallery apps by appending this file to a folder like Music folder. While were re still on the topic of music management. Messing with iTunes to manage my music library makes me die a little bit inside every time. > Absolute barrage of notifications about features I don't care about that won't go away until I click them. Ha, one thing that I miss the most about android was that I could fine control my notifications to an OCD level. Apple is getting better on iOS 15 but its still not as great as my android experience from 3 years ago. … My bottom line is, I left the Android world not because I hated the system but because I thought that apple was championing privacy and I wanted to support this goal. I dealt with every iOS limitations just because of the privacy propaganda, but now that it’s all over? I will go back to android. At least I have some degree of freedom if I can’t have privacy anyway.
- p2t2p 5y agoGood talk! > Its been three years since I used Androids but there was absolutely a way to kill / freeze background Apps I mean that in iOS is have a toggle in Settings as to which apps are allowed to run in background at all. This toggle is turned off for everything like Twitter and others dodgy apps. > You probably never heard of the ".nomedia" flag right? It is still marked as a bug in their bag tracker AFAIR so that doesn't count. The solution need to be better/smarter/easier customisable. > privacy Yeah, with the recent move it went out the window. For everything else - I acknowledge your preference =)