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That’s true it’s ridiculous. But I kind of view most on my phone as a toy/convenient gadget. Ofc there are important things on it, mfa keys etc, but somehow I j

That’s true it’s ridiculous. But I kind of view most on my phone as a toy/convenient gadget. Ofc there are important things on it, mfa keys etc, but somehow I just care that I own my laptop and desktop computers. But maybe I think so because iPhone is locked down..

hoseyor 1y ago
The irony of the illusion is that even though “the iPhone is locked down”, practically speaking it is more your property than an android, unless things have changed since I last really cared about Android, even every single update that was pushed on you incrementally made the device and user experience slower and worse, to the point where basically your phone would accumulate performance lag incrementally and one year in you would be thinking about a new Android device. Meanwhile, a several years old iPhone basically has far closer performance to what it was on day one, even if not perfect. It is yet another one of those oversights that people have just ignored, that when you buy a product like a phone, there is absolutely zero reason why it should not perform at the very least just as well as it did on day one if all the other conditions are the same, i.e., you have a choice about including any additional features. If you do not have a choice, e.g., because an update imposes some feature, then what you have on your hands is really just a company damaging your property. Imagine if you took your car into mandatory services or if Tesla pushed mandatory updates that made your acceleration, breaking, turning response times slower and increased your gasoline or electric consumption; and then tried telling your how fast and smooth and efficient the new model is that behaves the same way that the old one did when you bought it. It’s just fraud! If your update diminishes the performance and function of core capabilities, then you are liable for those damages, because you caused damages.
smcin 1y ago
hoseyor wrote multiple interesting comments on this thread that seem to have gotten shadowbanned. (I didn't flag or ban them, this was hours ago). (@hoseyor if you could repost more toned-down soberly-worded versions of those comments, without directly accusing multiple prominent tech companies of fraud, I think you'd get more traction.)

hoseyor 1y ago

The irony of the illusion is that even though “the iPhone is locked down”, practically speaking it is more your property than an android, unless things have changed since I last really cared about Android, even every single update that was pushed on you incrementally made the device and user experience slower and worse, to the point where basically your phone would accumulate performance lag incrementally and one year in you would be thinking about a new Android device. Meanwhile, a several years old iPhone basically has far closer performance to what it was on day one, even if not perfect. It is yet another one of those oversights that people have just ignored, that when you buy a product like a phone, there is absolutely zero reason why it should not perform at the very least just as well as it did on day one if all the other conditions are the same, i.e., you have a choice about including any additional features. If you do not have a choice, e.g., because an update imposes some feature, then what you have on your hands is really just a company damaging your property. Imagine if you took your car into mandatory services or if Tesla pushed mandatory updates that made your acceleration, breaking, turning response times slower and increased your gasoline or electric consumption; and then tried telling your how fast and smooth and efficient the new model is that behaves the same way that the old one did when you bought it. It’s just fraud! If your update diminishes the performance and function of core capabilities, then you are liable for those damages, because you caused damages.

smcin 1y ago

hoseyor wrote multiple interesting comments on this thread that seem to have gotten shadowbanned. (I didn't flag or ban them, this was hours ago). (@hoseyor if you could repost more toned-down soberly-worded versions of those comments, without directly accusing multiple prominent tech companies of fraud, I think you'd get more traction.)