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Then you'd be rewarding the company that pioneered and normalized taking away these rights. The next rights you'll lose will probably originate on Apple again y
by gdulli 1y ago
Then you'd be rewarding the company that pioneered and normalized taking away these rights. The next rights you'll lose will probably originate on Apple again years before Google takes them away too.
- rs186 1y agoIt doesn't make any difference anyway, does it? Then I might as well treat myself with better hardware & ecosystem.
- ethbr1 1y agoBetter hardware, yes. But you'll be reminded quickly how comparatively shit Apple's software is. Aka the litany of "Oh, yeah, everyone knows that's broken but just deals with it, because there's no way to fix issues on a closed platform other than {wait for Apple}."
- blibble 1y agomy iphone doesn't reboot every time I try to take a picture or make a phone call (on every pixel I've had) android sucks, but it was open now it just sucks
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoHow many pixels have you had that reboot when you take a picture or make a phone call? My pixels haven't done that (yet anyways).
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- rs186 1y agoI will take Apple's software over Samsung's ad infested, buggy & ugly software any day.
- abenga 1y agoThere are quite a few more Android phone makers than Samsung.
- Nursie 1y agoWhat are all these things that are broken? The only thing I can think of that's worse on iOS is that you're forced to use safari or another skin on webkit rather than true alternative browsers. Everything else works better thatn android AFAICT, and integrates amazingly with MacOS.
- ethbr1 1y agoThere being a different keyboard with a period next to space that's only used for address bars. Tapback emoji choice being uneditable. There's a lot of little annoyances that on Android can be user-fixed, but on iOS it's just... wait and hope.
- Nursie 1y agoHonestly, now you mention it, space bar/period thing is annoying :) I’m always searching for things with unnecessary dots in them, and I’d forgotten about the keyboard options on Android.
- ethbr1 1y agoIt's.a.minor.gripe.but.I.keep.stumbling.across.random.little.things.like.that. (Having recently switched from Android)
- dangus 1y agoI think this isn’t true at all, before the iPhone existed cellular carriers controlled software on consumer phones. Remember when GPS navigation was a $5/month app that was a cellular plan addon?
- ptx 1y agoOnly phones sold by carriers were controlled by carriers. You could easily (in Europe at least) buy an unlocked phone and put in a SIM from any carrier of your choice. You could then easily install (i.e. "sideload") Java apps from anywhere you wanted, e.g. from a storage card or over Bluetooth, although some permissions were restricted unless you bought an expensive code-signing certificate.
- dangus 1y agoAs I recall, in the US at the time the best networks were CDMA and had more strict device activation requirements, especially Verizon.
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