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Reminds me of old Samsung phone I had. It had IR transmitter and some app to control it as TV remote. But it wasn't Samsung's app, nor (I assume) one owned by
by ilyt 3y ago
Reminds me of old Samsung phone I had. It had IR transmitter and some app to control it as TV remote.
But it wasn't Samsung's app, nor (I assume) one owned by them. Still installed as system app so unable to uninstall tho.
So one day the company decided to monetize on that and just started to display ads on lockscreen. No way to remove it either. So I rooted that POS and never bought any Samsung shit again...
- yieldcrv 3y agoyeah, all the sensors and reality bending futuristic technology in the universe would not be enough for me to switch back to android away from the Apple ecosystem, due to experiences like what you described Apple would really have to mess something up, and another vendor would need to be more committed to their hardware than I’ve seen I would probably jump on the dumbphone luddite trend before going back to android
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoYou can at least root android, use some kind of ad-away or other ad blocking software and also remove 95% of the ads within apps and games.... on apple, you're stuck with those.
- technothrasher 3y agoThis is why I'm itching to go back to Android. I switched to an iPhone because my car only supported CarPlay, and I've regretted it ever since.
- userbinator 3y agoYou can(could?) jailbreak iOS too.
- jchw 3y agoApple has started adding advertisements into their built-in apps, so it's probably not a bad idea to get an idea of what the dumb phone market is looking like. (though spoiler alert, a lot of them actually do still run Android internally.)
- notimetorelax 3y agoI’m curious about it, what Apple apps have ads now?
- symic 3y agoNews, AppleTV (the tv app, not the device), and the app store and Maps. The app store is understandable but I search for my very local bank’s app and at the top of the results was a big banner for a stupid app that had nothing to do with my local bank. It was like doing a Google search.
- aardvarkr 3y agoWhere? I haven’t seen a single ad in any of their apps, and guaranteed none to the level described above. Citation needed.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoEvery address you accidentally click opens the App Store for Apple Maps, even if you only have Google Maps installed because Apple Maps has periodically sent you to the middle of a farm field (like it has for me).
- whimsicalism 3y agoThey're probably referring to in the App Store, perhaps Apple Music does as well? e: Yeah looks like Apple Music, Apple News also, soon Apple Maps & Apple Podcasts
- rodgerd 3y agoAppleTV shows have started displaying ads for other shows before you can watch an episode. It is extremely irritating, considering that it's a paid service.
- Marsymars 3y agoJust this week I saw a new ad on my iPad homescreen. At some point an iOS update added a “Smart Stack” widget to my homescreen with some common app widgets (contacts, maps photos) (I assume it was automatically added, I don’t recall ever creating it, it seems to be a new iOS 14 feature.) In iOS 15, iOS got something called “Widget Suggestions”, so apps you haven’t added to smart stack will automatically appear. (And this got automatically turned on for the smart stack on my home screen.) Result: I got the App Store automatically suggested in my widget stack and displaying an ad for some Disney thing. (Which I assume I wouldn’t be able to access without either paying, or watching more ads.)
- whimsicalism 3y agoI find my exposure to unwanted advertisements to be much greater now that I've bought an Apple device, simply because Apple does not apparently have the tech to effectively block the spam calls & texts.
- jjoonathan 3y agoYeah, this is wild. Last phone purchase I jumped ecosystems Android->iPhone on account of Google breaking their "free photo storage" promise on my Pixel. There were a number of pleasant surprises in the Apple ecosysem, but the spam situation is shockingly bad. So bad that I will probably go back to Android next hop if they don't figure it out.
- climb_stealth 3y agoUnfortunately the only way to have a good Android experience is to go custom ROM. I only buy phones that are supported by LineageOS. No bloat, no adds, no bullshit. And a solid experience for years on end. I know some people have issues with banking apps refusing to work but it has never been an issue for me.
- patrakov 3y agoI tried to buy a phone supported by LineageOS. And I have to say, this is impossible, given the restrictions ("available now" and "costs less than 500 USD including shipping to the Philippines"). So I ended up with a Poco X4 Pro 5G and Pixel Experience as a custom ROM.
- climb_stealth 3y agoYeah it can be quite limiting. Especially when you start looking for specific phone options. I have the older Pocophone F1 and it's great. Unfortunately can't buy it anymore anywhere.
- sureglymop 3y agoHaving an amazing experience here on grapheneos. And unlike on iOS, I can sync my files, contacts, calendar events etc. to my nextcloud server, use syncthing to sync stuff in a decentralized manner and play nintendo switch games with the yuzu emulator. Maybe all unimportant for you, but this amount of security and freedom is amazingly refreshing.
- yieldcrv 3y agoI am content with icloud, I’m not interested in emulators ever since I got a job I’m glad to hear grapheneos is useful for someone as I was skeptical, sounds like the same “file system freedom” sentiment android users have led with for a decade, to which I should remind all that iOS users are aware and an uncompelled
- CogitoCogito 3y ago> to which I should remind all that iOS users are aware and an uncompelled I mean I guess I'm "uncompelled" in the sense that these stupid iOS restrictions aren't quite enough to get me to jump ship, but the restrictions are still pretty insane nonetheless. For example, I'm very happy that the EU is going to force iOS to allow for side-loading.
- sureglymop 3y agoWhat the specific difference is, is that on grapheneos I can control the sandboxing myself with storage scopes and contact scopes. On iOS in terms of security the sandboxing is good but the user is treated like a child who shall not be able to customize because they could mess it up. Same exact thing with the installation of apps from unknown sources.
- ilyt 3y agoOh don't worry, as in any closed ecosystem the bullshit will come. Android at the very least have OSS options and after installing one on the aforementioned Samsung it was fine.
- recursive 3y agoAsk me about the time I tried to put a song on my Apple™ iPod. It was sufficiently customer-hostile that I there's not enough futuristic technology to get me to try Apple again. Something about it requires iTunes, but iTunes sucked for various reasons. I had another way to work around it, but they patched it out in a firmware update. The no-name music players had a better UI. (just drag and drop) Apple doesn't get it right all the time.
- smohare 3y ago[dead]
- shortcake27 3y agoThese are very different scenarios though. iTunes wasn’t a secret. Apple didn’t bait you. It was well known you needed to use iTunes. On Android you have regular apps that turn into Malware. Samsung will sell you a phone/TV then introduce/increase the amount of ads/malware with a software update. The problem isn’t that there are ads. The problem is that the ads are introduced after you’ve already purchased it. This doesn’t happen with Apple, and that’s something many people value more than being locked into a walled garden.
- ilyt 3y agoYeah but that's Samsung problem, not Android problem.
- justinclift 3y ago> iTunes wasn’t a secret. Apple didn’t bait you. It was well known you needed to use iTunes. Only if you were already in the Apple ecosystem. Many years ago a coworker was gifted one of the more basic iPods, which was his first experience with the Apple ecosystem. It didn't go terribly badly, but I do remember him not knowing about iTunes at the time.
- recursive 3y agoYes. If I had done some research I probably could have learned how terrible iTunes was in advance. I guess it was really my fault all along.
- horeszko 3y ago>>"I would probably jump on the dumbphone luddite trend before going back to android" There are also foss Linux phone OSs like postmarketOS, however hardware support and os are definitely in alpha or beta depending on the exact combination of hardware and software you use. However if you don't mind tinkering with Linux they do the basic job. FYI I wrote this from a PinePhone running postmarketOS (for Linux enthusiasts/tinkerers only, you've been warned)
- brucethemoose2 3y agoI am sick of both. Jailbroken iOS was heaven though. I hear its more difficult now (which is why Apple has lost my business since IIRC the iPhone 6).
- robotnikman 3y agoI remember that app. It was great and I used it all the time, before they started adding all the unnecessary bs and ads.
- causality0 3y agoSame. God I miss when handhelds had honest to god infrared transceivers, not just the now-dead "IR Blasters". I could put my old Palm into learning mode and copy an entire remote in less than thirty seconds.
- alvarezbjm-hn 3y agoYes, I used that palm feature. I also had IPAQs with IR. I know it is not the same, but there are IR learning remotes. I bet those will disappear, too. https://www.amazon.com/One-All-Universal-Replacement-Learning/dp/B0C4Y7ZG6S/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?crid=C03BVIIAAGH9&keywords=ir+learning+remote+control&qid=1686187633&sprefix=ir+learning+remote+control%2Caps%2C252&sr=8-16 https://www.amazon.com/One-All-Universal-Replacement-Learnin...
- brucethemoose2 3y agoMy OEM HTC keyboard (TouchPal) straight up turned into malware. It was banned from the Play Store... but was unremovable without adb. There was never a notification either, I just saw it on a news site.
- bagels 3y agoYeah, I really liked my Samsung flip phones, but made the mistake of buying one of their smartphones. So much uninstallable garbage. Never again.