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Android: Here's the phone; knock yourself out Apple: Father knows best (but Father is getting old and sometimes forgets things) Windows: If only we understood
by Beestie 8mo ago
Android: Here's the phone; knock yourself out
Apple: Father knows best (but Father is getting old and sometimes forgets things)
Windows: If only we understood what the ancestors knew
- lubujackson 8mo agoMore like: Apple: Father died a while back, but Step-Father is here now and he doesn't love you.
- ActorNightly 8mo agoIf Steve jobs was still around, the iPhone would be considerably worse.
- sleight42 8mo agoCook is, ultimately, the enshittifier of things Apple. The buck stops with him. But he does things to keep the stock price up so...
- dgxyz 8mo agoAndroid is more "here's a pocket panopticon we hope you won't unconfigure" Apple is more "here's this refined product which we designated as refined after a heavy session snooting cocaine off a toilet seat"
- singpolyma3 8mo agoTo be fair my iPhone spys on me in much more actively creepy ways than my android ever did. Showing ads for nearby pizza places at lunchtime on the homescreen. Telling me at about the time of my son's soccer that I may be interested in going to the place where his soccer is about now (despite me never using navigation on my phone) etc
- dgxyz 8mo agoNot sure how you managed to get it to do that. Mine doesn't!
- MarioMan 8mo agoNot sure where ads for pizza places are coming from, but the suggested maps trips are part of the “Significant Locations” feature. That data is end-to-end encrypted across your devices and is unreadable by Apple. It can be disabled if you don’t want it tracked.
- bigyabai 8mo ago> That data is end-to-end encrypted across your devices and is unreadable by Apple. Sure, Jan. Next you'll tell me that Google isn't evil and Apple truly does care about human rights.
- MarioMan 8mo agoIf you have evidence to the contrary, it would make for a great lawsuit. Apple is very explicit that they cannot read it. This data is end-to-end encrypted, much like the data collected by the Health app. They never have the keys to it. In comparison, Apple also has plenty of your data “encrypted at rest”, where they have the keys (unless you use advanced data protection). That data is only superficially secured. That’s not what this feature uses.
- russdill 8mo agoJust to play both sides here, on pixel there is a news feed if you swipe the home screen right. It is now infused with ai summaries rather than the first few lines of the story with no way to go back. Course, I can switch to a different launcher, but it makes it much less of a "batteries included" sort of product.
- DangitBobby 8mo agoThere is a setting to disable this. Long press on your home screen background > Home Settings > Toggle "Swipe to access Google app"
- russdill 8mo agoRight, but I appreciated easy access to a news feed.
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