Apple

I don’t care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the “blue vs green bubble” drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn’t Android’s fault for not being compatible with it.

The more power a company like this gains, the worse will it be for the whole industry.

Tarcion,

I’ve owned flagship androids and iphones. I like my iPhone better, sorry. If other companies want to make a better product, I’ll switch back again. It’s not really about the exclusivity/walled garden nonsense.

masterspace,

Yes, but make a criticism of Apple’s monopolistic behaviour online and you’ll immediately have a million brain dead Apple fans screaming at you about how iPhones have to work exactly the way they do now or the world will fall apart.

Tarcion,

Yeah, obviously hyperbole, but there is a kind of console fanboy-ism around smartphones which is honestly bizarre.

And while I’d rather Apple not be so shitty about proprietary everything, it’s also not the end of the world.

dulce_3t_decorum_3st,
@dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world avatar

That’s not true at all

masterspace,

It’s been my experience and evidently it’s been OPs and everyone who upvoted this.

MeetInPotatoes,

I think it’s being pointed out that people who share your experience generally have a pretty extreme lack of awareness which everyone else can easily notice.

An announcement about a new iPhone or iOS feature will inevitably have Android supporters bashing on literally every single person that owns an iPhone, making childish character judgments about strangers.

If an announcement about Android happens though, you do not get a bunch of iPhone users looking to criticize the Android fans at all. We just don’t care to go through such a pointless exercise that is willfully engaging in extremely poor logic. It’s raw and unfiltered stupidity to generalize about any huge group of consumers solely based on a product they use. Use whatever you like.

BCsven,

The frustration with IOS new features, is not the feature, it is that apple claims it is revolutionary or apple exclusive…and Android people are like WTF we had that 10 years ago.

natebluehooves,

But the implementation is often a bit more stable or user friendly. Those features often do not light the world on fire because the user experience is not there yet, and google moves on too fast to finish the feature.

Honytawk,

It is more user friendly because they strip out any options a power user might use.

BCsven,

Bump to transfer files, worked fine 12 years ago. Adhoc wifi no issue. Google Wallet worked fine instead of Apple pay, and so on. its just nobody cares, except IOS users, as they think Apple pay is somehow better. Even a search says Apple’s “Revolution” of payment. if you notice the only difference between the rest of phone and PC market compared to Apple’s is the use of Adjectives in front of the software or device, and that is enough to convince the average person that it is better. Samsung has DEX that turns your flagship phone into a linux desktop (less linuxy after version 9 and more dumbed down now) When you dock it. So Monitor , keyboard Mouse, external drive use with full desktop experience, but nobody cares and Samsung doean’t flaunt it like Apple marketing would…but maybe they should.

MeetInPotatoes,

That’s more specific than the average criticism, and while valid…why would anyone direct their ire for a company’s marketing towards their consumers? I can’t even count the amount of time I’ve heard folks online claim that Apple users only buy the phone for the image and because of their marketing etc. iPhones have been around for 17 years now, and people just like them. The standard complaint is that Apple fans are clueless etc. but people spend all their lives managing limited resources. It’s wildly ignorant to assume they can’t choose products for themselves. The simple fact is that iPhones are worth the money to the people who buy them, period.

BCsven,

i think the ire is because Apple fans believe it without questioning it, like flat earth believers being told that by a religious leader. People go harsh on religious fanatics. For adults buying a phone, sure. For kids it is image, they are peer pressured into having Apple, or face highschool ridicule. And they aren’t buying it outright, it goes on a payment plan that mom and dad pay for. Even my apple fan coworker is always trying to convince me to move to IOS, for “new” features, and I have to say dude I have been doing that forever, I would gain nothing by moving to IOS and lose a ton of technical abilities where I use my phone like a PC…but people can’t be convinced of what they already believe

MeetInPotatoes,

i think the ire is because Apple fans believe it without questioning it, like flat earth believers being told that by a religious leader.

Sweeping generalization. What percentage of iPhone users are you suggesting that are like this? How would you even prove that? Marketing might get us to try something but we make up our own minds after that. You’d have to be imagining that the people that line up at the stores for days are actually representative of the iPhone using population. They’re the fringe. Are most of us not numb to marketing by now anyway?

Even my apple fan coworker is always trying to convince me to move to IOS, for “new” features, and I have to say dude I have been doing that forever, I would gain nothing by moving to IOS and lose a ton of technical abilities where I use my phone like a PC…but people can’t be convinced of what they already believe

Sounds like you made the right choices for you and I’m genuinely glad for you for that. Your issue is in thinking your logic should be everyone else’s as well. The difference between us is that I also believe the Android fans chose their phones correctly based on what they prioritized. I have no reason to assume that such huge groups of people dealing with limited resources aren’t distributed evenly across a spectrum of being discerning and of being frugal. There’s hardcore fans throwing money at them that they don’t have and on the other side there are people with plenty of money that just wait till the renewal is up and get the cheapest model and don’t care much.

BCsven,

For example I never walk around convincing people that Android is the best platform. A phone is just a phone. But the majority of Apple and Iphone users want to tell me how great their product is and that I should switch–when the conversation was not about phones. It is like dealing with Evangelical Christians. Now I know from experience that some Christians never speak of their religion to non believers, and some iphone users don’y solicit either, but there is a reason there is a stereotype. Maybe it is not in your circle and you are then actually lucky.

MeetInPotatoes,

But the majority of Apple and Iphone users

There are over 135 million iPhone users in the US. What’s your sample size to be saying that a majority of users want to tell you how great their product is? Are you sure you’re not oversampling the loud ones? That is, it’s easy to count the people who try to convert you, but how easy is it really to count the people who just don’t care? Some of them have likely overheard your conversations about phones and just kept on walking or doing their own thing.

Maybe it is not in your circle and you are then actually lucky.

Is it that I’m lucky or that you’re unlucky? Both would shift the window of perception in the same way.

I would suggest that people who want to pretend their decision-making is better than yours (especially regarding personal preference) sound like the type of annoying people that I avoid. Sorry you have to deal with them though! Those people suck whether they’re talking about their phones, shoes, cars, clothes, consoles, beer etc.

BCsven,

you sure you’re not oversampling the loud ones?

Well of course. This is how media and internet is. You get complainers and evangelicals and the folks in between don’t care enough to make the effort to weight in.

The original question was why the Ire on IOS users buying a new phone / features. So back to that, it is the loud IOS users that are visible and the ones and the loud android crowd calls out as being sheep.

But yes, unfortunately in my pocket of the world people seem insecure about the amount they paid to Apple and so want to onboard others around them to justify their own purchase through consensus validation.

MeetInPotatoes,

Well, fair enough for sure. Let’s just both agree that those people suck and I genuinely hope you’re enjoying your phone of choice!

Seems like our only disagreement is just how many of the evangelicals there are. I used to do tech support for iPhones about 10 years ago and I’d say maybe one out of every 30 callers or so were the rabid fanboy types you describe. But that sample was skewed too because I was pretty much only talking to people having an issue with their phone. Hardly anyone was an Apple fan after 20 minutes on hold lol

Cheers and good talk!

BCsven,

Agreed. And yeah phone is good, especially now that I moved to GrapheneOS. All the tight security amd privacy settings, minus all the google apps ( those can be Sandbox added to keep Google out of your business). Anyhow, have a good weekend.!!

EntropyPure,

Seems the other way around works just as well. Say you like an Apple product and attract someone who goes „brainless Apple fanboy“ or „Google does it better because freedom“

masterspace, (edited )

Lol no one is responding to posts about how much you like a feature with hate, unless you’re trolling the wrong community or youre the person in OPs post, saying that in response to someone making a criticism of a corporation’s monopolistic behaviour?

EntropyPure,

Clearly we have been to different parts of the internet, cause that is definitely not what I observed in the past years.

It’s dumb either way. Google and Apple are publicly traded companies and therefore never have the end user as top priority. Satisfying them is just means to please shareholders, their top priority. And if it is not that, then it is pleasing some governing body (e.g. China, India) to expand market access and grow. For the shareholders again.

Mango,

No, we don’t like Google either.

ignism,

Oh the Apple hate is much worse than the Apple love.

Mango,

What’s to like more?

Tarcion,

I’ve found the overall performance to be more consistent/better. The “better” part is a bit moot as every time I buy a new phone, the performance should be better than the last one just because it’s newer technology.

And while there are a lot of things I don’t like, core performance kind of overshadows any other issues I have or features I’m missing out on. Perhaps I should have said “better for my needs” instead of “better product.”

natebluehooves,

A lot of it comes down to software. I had a cpu performance scaling bug that meant my oneplus 7 pro would occasionally take ~5 seconds after unlock to stop being clocked at 100mhz. It made the unlock experience really laggy and crappy. It felt cheap and lazy.

thorbot,

What? How dare you go against the Lemmy hivemind. Apple bad remember?

Sent from my iPhone

Honytawk,

I just don’t like how Apple decides when your app is too old.

You don’t own your device, you only lease it.

Nurgle,
boredtortoise,

I’ve heard green bubbles live in their heads rent free

tsugu,
@tsugu@slrpnk.net avatar

I don’t think about you at all.

And that’s the problem.

Nurgle,

Okay we can start mobbing every random android thread and start calling you all sheeple?

AVincentInSpace,

You buy what Apple sells because you’re locked into the Apple ecosystem, and 90% of the time, you’re locked into the Apple ecosystem because your friends or family use it.

Now that I’ve said mine, what’s your reason for calling me sheeple?

Nurgle,

I’m not 14, I’m not going to call you sheeple or presume to know why you picked out your phone.

AVincentInSpace,

Then why did you say you wanted to?

Nurgle,

I don’t… I inferred I could mimic the android users behavior like OPs seen in most threads.

AVincentInSpace,

So what you’re saying is that you just call names for the sake of calling names and don’t much care whether or not a critique is valid?

Nurgle,

What no? I’m saying if OP wants iphone uses to act like android users we can start going into threads that have nothing to do with iPhone and stir up shit for no reason.

AVincentInSpace,

To that I say, sure, why not? I’m up for having a debate.

Also, you’ll have a hard time saying that the post you’re currently commenting on isn’t about android vs iphone.

Honytawk,

Bottom should be: “I don’t think about anyone but myself”

blattrules,

I used to push android over iOS until a few years ago when Google became just as bad as Apple, if not worse. I’ve been trying to steadily get rid of Google products that they’re probably just going to either stop supporting or discontinue altogether, or gradually reduce features that I use every day. I switched over to an iPhone because it offers better privacy and allows for ad blockers without having to root your phone. I don’t have any desire to go back even though I still think the android interface makes more sense for me. I also don’t care what color someone’s bubble is.

tsugu,
@tsugu@slrpnk.net avatar

May I ask what do you mean by android not allowing ad blockers? You can set up a private DNS and set it to one that blocks ads. A very simple thing to do.

Alk,

Yeah there are even several ways to do it if you use root.

BCsven,

You don’t need root was their point, if you use private DNS entry

Sirence, (edited )

Can you elaborate on how to use AdBlock on iPhone? Everytime I try to look it up I can only find ad block for the web browser. Last time I was told that’s all you can do, is this outdated?

Edit: you’re not just talking about using DNS right? Since that’s just the same as android.

blattrules,

Yeah, I just installed and paid for AdGuard pro, which blocks ads on safari. Doesn’t do anything for any Google app that I install but reading news sites is much better since I did it.

Honytawk,

Lol, you paying for an adblocker that doesn’t even block all ads on your device?

Get on AdAway’s level.

Sirence,

But that is so much worse then the free system wide AdBlock you can use on android without root, why do you think it is better?

BCsven,

adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.htmlgo here , expand the private dns, click ios, follow instructions to get a privateDNS config setup.

No need for buying an app

Sirence,

That’s just DNS and exactly how you do it on android too, the op made it sound like he has something better that’s exclusive.

BCsven, (edited )

Yes it is pretty much the same, Android you just type the IP address, Apple you download a config. For anyone not knowing about it ( which sounds like you do) It is system wide, and not just for webpages, lookup goes through the private DNS. It is how the app version does it also, you just get a button to turn off the private DNS and use the general 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 for when you need to resolve a site, and maybe a few other functions. I forget which adblocker it was, but one was selling user data, so setting up your own DNS or pihole seems the best way.

BCsven,

GrapheneOS is where it is at. All the configuration of Android without Googles bullshit. And if you need Google bullshit it is Sandboxed so they aren’t holding your phone hostage

hperrin,

Google is no better.

verdigris, (edited )

At least there’s choice with Android. I’d much rather it was possible for FOSS phones to actually exist but in the meantime the lock-in with Apple is an absolute non-starter, as is basically everything about their UX philosophy.

PopOfAfrica,

If Apple let my install alternate OS. I might consider the hardware.

BReel,

It really just depends on if you prefer customization or reliability.

For example, I’m an apple boi because I like that every app in the store is made specifically for an iPhone (which is easy for devs to do since there’s little variation). It leads to better maintained and performing apps because devs can optimize for the device it’s running on.

On android, you have way more choices, which some people prefer. But for myself, I get really annoyed when I launch an app and it fills 95% of my screen, but not all of it, because my phone is slightly taller then the 2000 other variations out there. It’s much harder for a dev to optimize their app when there are so many variables to account for on android.

Neither phone (or company for that fact) is better. They serve different demographics of users is all.

AnagrammadiCodeina,

Have you used android in the last 10 years? Im not the kind of guy who install 100 apps per day but i did not encounter this issue for a VERY long time.

BReel,

I haven’t had one myself for a while, really anymore I just see it when watching vids on the flip phones or tablets it seems.

But android gave me the reason to switch (the messy apps) years ago, and apple hasn’t given me a reason to switch back yet.

It very well might be fine now, but until apple does something similar enough to push me to switch again, I won’t know haha.

AnagrammadiCodeina,

Im running an android phone from 2016 with android 13 and last week security patches. Smooth as silk, no google, no ads, battery lasts 10h SOT. That’s the reason why ill never switch to Apple as daily driver (I have 1 provided by my company)

GlitterInfection,

Objectively speaking, Apple is a less evil company than Google.

hperrin,

I don’t think that’s a thing that can be said objectively. How evil a company is is entirely subjective.

cm0002,

Google is a bit better, Google allows you to both side load and unlock the bootloader. On those 2 things alone gives them at least a couple notches above Apple. Not to mention Android is designed around allowing you to customize things.

That being said, Google isn’t some savior, they’re still a giant corporation doing giant corporation things

hperrin,

I didn’t mean Android is no better than iOS, I meant Google is no better than Apple.

OKaybin,

Android is

xor,

“blue vs green bubble” drama

is not real… it’s some bullshit marketing thing… nobody cares what kind of phone you have

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

It absolutely is real.

Source: my own experience for the last four years

ruckblack,

Does the year you were born start with “20”?

xor,

what have you experienced?

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

peers being frustrated because I have an android… being left out of group chats because people don’t wanna break their existing imessage groups… having to constantly bother people about not sending videos/images over text because they become a blurry mess… frequently apologizing just for having an android…

And also a general awareness I’ve developed that I have been left out of things… harder to know because, well, I was left out.

Mind you I am probably in the single worst location for this in terms of mindshare. By my unscientific observation, ~0.5% of students had an android at my school.

xor,

yeah, i was a poor kid in a rich school…
i really don’t think it’s the phone…

if it was 1860, you’d be excluded for have a subpar quill and ink…

BCsven,

Then you are hanging around with highschool kids that care what shoes you wear. I guaranty nobody working and living a proper life gives a shit on text bubble colours

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

They’re kids and plus most of it is subconscious. None of them are mean or anything about it. I can assure if I was to ask them, they’d all say it’s totally fine and they don’t mind at all and they understand, but still they end up sending one less text because they have negative feelings associated with it and thus their brain brings it up a little less.

Maybe nobody working gives a shit right now, but if this is how the kids are growing up, it’s gonna keep becoming a bigger problem

BCsven,

Then that is an education issue. Part of our curriculum was decoding advertising and marketing used to manipulate consumers. it seems this has to be readded at schools.

baritone_edge,

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  • BCsven,

    If you wamted privacy you would not be using the OS delivered messaging app that IOS can read anyway to flag CASM. And the group can screenshot and share. if you actually wanted privacy you would be using a tool like Session.

    qprimed, (edited )

    is not real…

    tell that the social cliques in high school. its marketing and its real.

    source: kids.

    xor,

    it’s marketing thus seems more real than it is.

    there will always be kids who treat poor kids bad for not having the cool new expensive stuff…

    but that’s a classist problem, not limited to phones.

    see also: jeans, shoes, makeup, e-bikes, pokemon, everything else

    also, all the really cool kids use signal messenger and don’t use stock text messaging apps…

    qprimed,

    oh, understood. just saying that the marketing of social shame has been strategically exended into the colour of your text bubble pixels… from the “think different” company.

    signal gets installed on every phone in my house, but the kids are drawn to where the other kids are and Apple snobbery is rife in the area I am in.

    xor,

    well your kids are really cool…

    i wonder how much is actually apple, and how much is standard classist kid stuff…

    there was a recent hydroflask craze with the kids around here… with kids chanting “sks” (sound at the end of hydroflasks)
    but, i think that’s just because they’re nicer quality and expensive…

    when i was a kid there was a big deal made about jean brands in my school…

    qprimed,

    I would say the majority of it is just the usual human monkey brained reactionary garbage that our species has always dealt with. the concerning bit is how our own brains have been weaponized against us with untold amounts of money and time expended in learning how to manipulate enough of us to extract and realocate “value” from the many to the few.

    I think we are collectively building a benificial immune reaction to this invasion of our selves, but the attack is so pervasive and so persistent that it is, quite literally, mentally and physically debilitating - certainly by design. will we just exhaust ourselves into submission or change paths and try something that does not culminate in a species ending orgy of consumption and conflict? I have no idea, but very few of our possible futures look particularly hopeful to me at the moment.

    I do, however, try to hold on to some thread of optimisim - I need a reason to get up in the morning.

    I appreciate the dialogue, fellow internet denizen :-)

    BCsven,

    If it isn’t the phone, it is shoes, or other stupid shit. people grow up and the realize that none of that stupid shit matters

    thorbot,

    Who fucking cares what high schoolers think?

    qprimed,

    its their lived experience and they are the future adults of our world.

    if the insane amount of micro-targeted manipulation and pressure these kids face on a daily basis does not concern you, then your lack of empathy is self evident and there is nothing else to be said to you.

    thorbot,

    Yeah, because we never experienced that as kids ourselves

    Zangoose,

    No, you didn’t, or at least not at this level.

    Sure, TV ads and even some old games had ads which were targeted to specific demographics (their audience), but modern digital ads are targeted to vulnerabilities of specific individuals (using location, search, purchase history, etc.). They’re also shown much more often and baked into products which are specifically designed to target your subconscious psychology (using nudging, gamification, etc.) so you use them more.

    The kind of data required for the level of ad targeting done now did not exist more than maybe 15-20 years ago.

    thorbot,

    You’re completely glossing over the fact that there was a whole different set of problems my generation had to deal with in the 90s. But sure, only modern kids ever struggled. We’ll go with that.

    Zangoose,

    Obviously every generation has its struggles, but I was never disagreeing with that. If you treat this as “just another generational problem,” you are fundamentally missing the point. It’s as you say, a whole different set of problems.

    Micro targeted ads are hard to ignore because most of the time they’re influencing our subconscious state. This isn’t just another generational issue we’re facing, it’s fundamentally shaping the way people look at the world without them even being aware of it. It’s not limited to just the current generation, because everyone interacts with technology. However, targeting inner psychology will obviously impact people with less developed brains more than it will impact adults, and we’re beginning to see the effects of that already with Gen Z.

    VinesNFluff,
    @VinesNFluff@pawb.social avatar

    Yeah, defnitely not a thing in Brazil. We get rich idiots bragging about their iPhones, sure, but the text bubble thing never came over.

    … Broadly because we don’t. Text in Brazil. We use WhatsApp or Telegram.

    xor,

    cops can’t crack my iphone, but they can pop most androids instantly…

    end of discussion

    Mahonia,

    Much of your data can just be subpoenaed and then provided to law enforcement without physical access however. Apple complies 90% of the time.

    theguardian.com/…/apple-user-data-law-enforcement…

    Also, there are ways that LE can bypass your iphone’s encryption. Just doesn’t work all the time.

    vice.com/…/unlock-apple-iphone-database-for-polic…

    GrapheneOS, based on AOSP, is really the only truly private and secure option. Android offering interoperability is not a downside and Apple having a walled garden does not mean it provides increased security. Apple is decidedly not transparent and this is ultimately not a good thing.

    bloodfart,

    You’re talking about data stored in the apple cloud (I think without the account recovery turned off, but I’m not 100% on that). The same is true of googles cloud services.

    Agencies haven’t been focusing on getting the actual texts that say “here I go, doing something you don’t like!” For quite a while because of the amount of variability involved. What I hear spooks talking about is building enough pc for a rubber hose interrogation with unsecured parallel data streams like push notifications.

    Mango, (edited )

    They don’t need to. They have the keys.

    NOW it’s the end of discussion.

    smileyhead, (edited )

    Shows cop a PinePhone with main partition encrypted with LUKS

    xor,

    i’m a big fan of pinephone and pine64…

    BCsven, (edited )

    Only if user isn’t using encryption ( which is standard these days ) or has developer mode usb debugging left open

    xor,

    sadly, this isn’t true:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite

    BCsven,

    So I see a company thay duplicates phones, with no source on cracking encryption, other than their own company got hacked. And if you have a GrapheneOS phone you can shut off external USB. like connecting a cord , headset to computer does nothing unless you can login to phone and turn the USB option on.

    Honytawk,
    xor,

    After months of claiming that Apple’s privacy protections had stalled its investigation, the Justice Department said Monday that it had accessed a terrorism suspect’s iPhone

    it took “months” for the fbi to crack one iphone, that belonged to a terrorist…
    and that was in 2020, those holes have long been patched.

    so, no they can’t.

    Psiczar,

    Who is unsuspecting? I choose to use a iPhone because:

    It is a closed ecosystem, a billion apps is enough for me. I wanted to be able to update the phone for many years I didn’t want to have preinstalled 3rd party bloatware I wanted a device that was less prone to malware

    Android is a great OS, and it is better in some areas than iOS, but nothing particularly important to me.

    Only Americans are concerned about green and blue bubbles. If it’s so upsetting to you, use WhatsApp. Don’t blame Apple because Google couldn’t standardise on a single messaging app for more than 5 minutes.

    Using Google devices and pointing at Apple and saying “they’re evil, don’t use them” is laughable. They’re all bad companies, no organisation should be worth trillions.

    SpermGoobler,

    I wanna throw in my 2 cents as I’m considering getting an iPhone after only ever using Android

    Recently I’ve started noticing how much disrespect for your time and attention I’ve experienced on Android. It’s not so much Android itself, but the ecosystem around it:

    • A layer of bloatware from most major manufacturers
    • The Play Store and Samsung store trying their hardest to sell you some bullshit app with the most obnoxious clickbait banner.
    • My Samsung phone forcing me to install some random apps I don’t want with a prompt that I can’t dismiss.
    • Google or Samsung (I can’t remember which) trying to get me to agree to personalised ads by presenting it as if it’s a ‘we’ve updated our terms’ type prompt.
    • Google ads being generally annoying.

    And more general malware-like behaviour trying to sell me shit. I don’t care.

    I’m not my grandma who’s just going to blindly fall for whatever slight of hand that gets them 10c when I install some borderline malware app, it’s just annoying. I just want a phone that’s reasonably powerful, and works.

    Android itself is great, and I’ve been able to improve the experience by using an ad blocker and f-droid where possible, but it’s rough. I can’t install a custom ROM as my banking apps don’t work if I do :////

    I hate looking up to Apple as a solution here as they’re do a bunch of shitty things

    Noel_Skum,

    I pretty much agree with all of that but wanted to add that when BlackBerry BB10 was discontinued (miss you, Z30) I had the option of Microsoft, Google or Apple. I chose the least bad of a poor bunch… The original monopolists or an ad-obsessed stalker were of no interest to me.

    Yerbouti,

    “My personality is based on the fact that I have an iPhone.”

    Nurgle,

    Its looking more like y’all’s personality is based on the fact other people have iPhones.

    pixeltree,
    @pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Back on reddit, there was a subreddit called non-golfers. It was created to poke fun at atheists, being a metaphor for a community around something they don’t like. It grew, with newcomers not understanding the joke and taking it seriously and unironically being a community about hating golf. (I was one of those people, I’m self aware now). It kinda strikes me as human nature, tribalism, rearing its ugly head once again. I’ll leave you with this relevant video, highly worth the watch.

    youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

    Nurgle,

    It’s amazing how many subreddits fell victim to the satire to unironic hate club lifecycle. And that video was great. Especially the part at the end about how groups make their own totem/straw men to keep the anger up.

    pixeltree,
    @pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Yeah. For the most part those communities seemed to have not jumped to lemmy which I’m grateful for. I think hate is like the fast food of emotions, it’s addictive and we love it but it’s bad for you and eating nothing but that will fuck you up. That video really fundamentally changed how I view things on the internet and if there’s one thing I really wish I could expose more people to, that’s it.

    GlitterInfection,

    Is it Apple-bad time again?

    Oh, right, I forgot, it’s ALWAYS Apple-bad time on lemmy.

    HEXN3T,
    @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Apple IS bad, but Jesus Christ

    GlitterInfection,

    Not if you care about privacy and security, the environment (comparatively), user experience, industrial design, and any number of things that are important to tons of customers.

    No company is perfect, nor are they beyond criticism. But the lemmy Apple-bad hive-mind is a bunch of people who can’t see past their Linux memes.

    Honytawk,

    We’ll change to Apple-good time once Apple actually does something pro-consumer again.

    GlitterInfection,

    No, you won’t.

    kibiz0r, (edited )

    There is plenty to criticize about Apple when it comes to anti-consumer and anti-competitive business practices…

    But if you’re gonna talk on the level of “evil” and “freedom”, Apple’s greatest sin is their supply chain.

    And then there’s Google, whose evil I would place somewhere between [Apple’s] pseudo-monopoly and [Apple’s] pseudo-slavery. At least Apple is a tech company. Google is a surveillance company that just happens to make tech so they can monitor you more closely.

    Working with the shared-space AR APIs in iOS and Android really drove home the difference in their priorities. The iOS SDK only allowed us to share AR data through a local, SDK-managed connection. The data is opaque, can’t be directly serialized, and doesn’t work anyway if you try to persist/distribute it yourself. Android, on the other hand… They wanted us to upload your AR data to Google-owned servers, where they could do Google-knows-what with the scans of your living room.

    It’s sad that we’re at a point where you have to either pay for your privacy, or pay with your privacy. But we can at least not be naive about it. Android is more interoperable, more prolific, and more lenient with third-party code. And that’s because it’s a good strategy if you’re a surveillance giant. Not because it’s good for consumers.

    Edit:

    Got a couple of comments that are like “Um, actually, Apple is still subject to government surveillance and exploits”.

    Let me be clear: You should not expect any off-the-shelf product to shield you from intelligence agencies and state-sponsored hackers. You will have to radically change your life to accomplish that, and “Apple or Google?” won’t even be a relevant question for you.

    And I’m not saying Apple doesn’t do shady monitoring for their own commercial purposes.

    All I’m saying is that Google’s core business model is shady monitoring, and that directly influences their decisions regarding Android. So painting it as the commoner’s hero against the greedy walled-garden warden is a dangerous proposition.

    There are no good guys here.

    There’s some hardware, SDKs, and back-end services that you can evaluate on their own merits if you’re capable.

    But if you want to just look at business practices:

    • There’s one company that doesn’t want to integrate with anything outside of their own products – because that’s good for their bottom line.
    • And there’s one company that wants to integrate with anything and everything – because that’s good for their bottom line.

    Don’t assume the difference is benevolence.

    dessalines,
    Zerush,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar
    Player2,

    They are all kind of terrible right now, at least for me. I hate what the big companies are doing, and the smaller projects such as Fairphone simply aren’t good enough yet. Guess I’ll try to make my existing one last for as long as possible, though that was already the plan.

    KpntAutismus,

    i feel you, the fairphone 4 works well enough for me though. a lot of software/hardware bugs are yet to be ironed out fully, but fairphones are steadily getting better.

    although the 6th gen needs to improve a lot, the 5’s launch was disappointing to say the least.

    Honytawk,

    I also have a Fairphone 4, but I have encountered no significant bugs I can remember.

    Installed LineageOS on it though, with microG, instead of /e/.

    Can you tell me what issues you had?

    KpntAutismus,

    My FP4 was affected by the “ghost touch” hardware bug, i ended up getting a replacement screen after contacting support. (it never fully went away, it has a few spasms every once in a while)

    also the crashing while connected to 5G put me in a few pickles. sometimes when receiving a call while watching youtube the call’s notification bubble will take up to 5 seconds to appear at all.

    it seems to also ocasionally forget that it has a SIM card installed, though that sim has been in use for 10+ years, so i can’t say if that’s the Fairphones’s fault.

    lemmyreader,

    the smaller projects such as Fairphone simply aren’t good enough yet

    What is not good enough with Fairphone ?

    Zangoose,

    Their 7 (?) years of software support is kind of misleading to me because they stop getting chip-level security updates after something like 3-4 years due to the specific Qualcomm chip they use. Not to mention the chip is on the slower side of today’s phones, let alone phones 7 years from now.

    I can see how others might be fine with that though, just my 2 cents.

    Player2,

    Display, battery life, performance, supported bands, software reliability, camera quality, etc.

    I know I am one of those weirdos that asks for a lot from a mobile device, but I want something that can act as a high speed hotspot for 5 devices and a desktop environment at the same time, while playing back high resolution media and charging fast. This kind of thing has always been possible with Samsung’s flagship, but now every generation it feels like yet more is removed compared to the older one. I’m still on the S21U and while I’m not very happy with it, I haven’t seen anything better, including the new Samsungs.

    Maybe I should set my sights lower, but it just frustrates me because these are all things my S9+ could do in 2017.

    AFC1886VCC,

    Power users get screwed over now.

    RIP_Cheems,
    @RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

    “Fucking hell, my phone costs 3000 to repair” “Why doest it cost so much?” “Apple” “Why don’t you switch to a different phone then?” “Fuck you”

    Honytawk,

    People are downvoting, but it is true.

    I once wanted to repair an older Ipad because the screen was cracked. The repair would have cost 600€ at an Apple reseller. A new Ipad would have been about 700€ at the time.

    There is a reason why Apple is so against the right to repair.

    Even their “self-repair” option nowadays is a load of bollocks. You have to rent the expensive machine, order a new part (which can only come from them of course), send out your part and wait before they will send the replacement part, then hope you don’t fuck up slightly, causing you to break the screen and you having to pay through your nose again to order a replacement.

    So it only costs slightly less, but you will not have a phone for weeks.

    There really is no reason third party hardware can’t be installed at the users own risk. But that would mean competition for Apple, and they don’t like that.

    vane,

    Why is it always people that use android bragging about that people that use apple don’t want to communicate with them and completly ignore them. And right after they go play ps5 exclusives.

    Honytawk,

    Because there is no such thing the other way around? Its only Apple that does that shit.

    And what does Playstation have to do with anything? The last one I had was PS2

    vane,

    Playstation or Nintendo have no open hardware or software you can install on those products so why Apple is different from them ? Only because they make mobile phones or PCs ? If they decide they don’t do PC or mobile phone and rename their products to something different, abandon standards that in fact they established and then market their products as it’s not a phone people, it’s not a pc, don’t use it if you want a pc or mobile phone, would this make people feeling happy ? That’s stupid.

    Trollception,

    Words are hard

    belated_frog_pants,

    Your phone privacy is owned by your isp and the OS maker. You arent doing the world any better being on android. Google is fucking awful too. Both are awful and should be broken up. They are way too large and powerful and only having 2 phone OSes in the world everyone runs made by 2 greeeeedy ass corporations is the problem neither of you can solve gloating about which evil corp you give money to to interact with modern society.

    HAL_9_TRILLION,

    I have one of each. I guess I’m Chaotic Evil.

    Luffy879,

    So i support Google by using an open source OS? Just because your phone uses Android dosent mean it has any Google services included. Since Android itself is open source, there are many Android OSs that dont include any Google Software.

    hemko,

    Technically, you support google when you buy a phone that ships with licensed android including all Google’s shitware preinstalled

    Luffy879,

    Yeah, but unfortunately it is impossible to buy a phone without that

    belated_frog_pants,

    Thats my point.

    AnagrammadiCodeina,

    Used or refurbished phones already payed that once and will not pay it again. So technically, you are not giving a cent to google.

    slacktoid,
    @slacktoid@lemmy.ml avatar

    Network effect. Same reason why you should use firefox (or alts) as much as possible over chromium (or alts).

    rockerface,

    I do miss Symbian smartphones. Nokia was the shit back then

    slacktoid,
    @slacktoid@lemmy.ml avatar

    Checkout sailfishOS. You can run android apps on it.

    BCsven,

    Install GrapheneOS , it is degoogled, and security focused. if you want play store it runs inside a sandbox so Google isn’t in all your biz. Also has Mic and Camera shutoff options for the paranoid types.

    Honytawk,

    Show me a single Iphone running a custom ROM with no Apple shit on it.

    Shambles,

    This was exactly my point, I’m not lining up for an iPhone or an android. The lack of choice is what drives me to buy apple because when the time comes for a new phone it’s one or the other and I prefer the experience on iPhone. Really I would rather not give my money to either but there are no viable alternatives. I would not criticize anyone for buying android or apple, it’s a matter of what kind of shit sandwich do you want to eat, and it’s terrible.

    OKaybin,

    bro, the are android ROMs... there are ROMs whose entire thing is privacy and removing anything google. Saying they're equal is making a bad faith argument "Apple and Google are evil so Android is evil" 😩

    Android is much more open than Apple ever will be. They aren't even in the same universe.

    gianni,

    As an Android user, Android phones with Google Play Services are no better - in fact I’d say they’re probably worse

    Stitch0815,

    No at least you can side loade and install other app stores out of the box with android. It`s far from perfect but still way better.

    The_Che_Banana,

    FDroid for open source apps.

    thorbot, (edited )

    News flash, you can do that on iOS too.

    Edit: downvote away, my custom apps on my iPhone run great without jail breaking. Love all the wrong info on Lemmy. Good stuff.

    ReakDuck,

    Not really, no

    thorbot,

    Okay! You’re wrong but that’s alright. I’m running custom apps on my device without jailbreaking.

    flashgnash,

    Don’t you have to jailbreak to do that

    thorbot, (edited )

    Nope. You can install any app with developer license. You can also jailbreak. Don’t bother replying to this comment, I’ve read enough brain dead replies already.

    Zangoose,

    Which costs an additional $100/yr for something that’s free on any other platform.

    thorbot,

    Naw you can use a service like maplesign for $10

    flashgnash,

    With developer license

    Doesn’t seem fair to pay for the luxury of being able to install your own software

    Honytawk, (edited )

    Yeah, the customs apps, for which you pay a developer license for. Which need to be reinstalled every so often because Apple doesn’t want you to use apps like that.

    They run so great though /s

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