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>Apple's customers generally have more of a "save us from ourselves" mentality. FWIW, this could also be described as a "My phone is a tool and not a hobby pro
by devmor 1y ago
>Apple's customers generally have more of a "save us from ourselves" mentality.
FWIW, this could also be described as a "My phone is a tool and not a hobby project" mentality. That is half of what prompted me to change daily drivers from Android to iOS.
I do not get as much freedom for my apps to do whatever I want - but I don't need to do as much work vetting developers or tinkering either. It's a tradeoff of time priority.
- stavros 1y agoI don't know if I agree, my Android phone is a tool just fine. I can make it a hobby project, if I want, but I can just keep it a tool if I don't.
- foobiekr 1y agoUnfortunately, it isn't really practical to have free for all alongside secure by default. Apple is doing the latter, the various non-Google Androids focus on the former.
- stavros 1y agoWhy isn't it? I think Android is doing a good enough job doing both, and Apple could have simply allowed unlocking the bootloader. Nothing else would need to change.
- devmor 1y agoPerhaps the ecosystem has changed now, but when I made the switch in 2017, having an Android phone felt like a hobby project. I was regularly dealing with flagship phones stuttering and lagging, apps crashing, media formats not displaying properly, etc.
- SahAssar 1y agoI strongly disagree. The difference is "I control my phone vs. my phone is controlled by the vendor". Or "My phone is a computing device vs. my phone is vendor-specified use-case tool".
- devmor 1y ago> I strongly disagree. The difference is "I control my phone vs. my phone is controlled by the vendor". How many Android phones can be used without Google services?
- SahAssar 1y agoMost of them? You trade off a lot of features, but you have the choice and can install/do what you want. Sure, I don't like the reliance on google play services but at least there is more choice.
- devmor 1y agoNo, Google Play services are baked into Android by default. You have to install an alternative operating system to go without them. You cannot use Android in a way Google does not want you to without hacking on it.
- apitman 1y agoIsn't the process of vetting a developer a subset of the process for finding a good app for doing a certain task?
- franga2000 1y agoThis is not about tinkering. My phone is a toolbox, the apps are the tools and Google keeps breaking them in order to make their tools seem better. I need to get real work done using my phone and being able to sync files with a server is a critical part of that. I can't use Google Drive instead for many reasons, but that's besides the point, because this is illegal anticompetitive behaviour. As far as I know, Apple also doesn't let you sync folders like this, so that's not a solution. And regardless, Apple cripples many other tools that I rely on.
- Klonoar 1y agoYour use case is not tinkering. For many others it undoubtedly is. The person you’re responding to is seemingly just pushing back on the weird idea that iOS users don’t have technical acumen or whatever.