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I 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 us
by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I 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.
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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 =)