I hate the tribalism regarding Apple products. There are loyal fanboys who won’t hear a bad word about Apple, and then there are Apple haters who criticise everything about them.
I wish we had some more nuance in this debate. The reality is that there are advantages and disadvantages to Apple products. I’ll outline a few:
Advantages
- Long iOS support. Typically you can expect an iPhone to be supported for 5-7 years, which is well above the average in the industry.
- No bloatware or adverts on the iPhone
- Better privacy than Google Android/Microsoft Windows
- High-end hardware, e.g. M1 chip in MacBooks.
- User friendly design. Nice user experience.
Disadvantages
- Overpriced. Seriously all Apple products are more expensive than the competition.
- Anti-consumer business practices that influence the industry. They normalised removing the headphone jack and using non-removable batteries, which other manufacturers followed. Another anti-consumer practice is using their proprietary Lighting port, rather than USB (luckily the EU should be forcing them to adopt USB-C and removable batteries soon). Also, no SD card slot because they want you to use iCloud
- Walled garden. No support for side-loading apps
- Required to use iTunes to add/remove music to the iPhone, which is a problem if you use Linux (you’d have to use Wine to install the Windows version as a workaround)
I like to say that there are two Apples, Apple the designer and Apple the business.
Apple the designer is one of the best in the world. Yes they have blunders but they consistently put out some of the highest quality hardware and software. The current design language of the iPhone is beautiful, MacOS has its issues but it’s a good OS, the seamlesness with which Apple devices work together is nothing short of incredible. They have some of the best engineers and designers in the world and it shows. (I’ll never forgive them for the mouse though, that thing is a travesty)
Apple the business is a ghoul who hates its users and competition, would rather you buy a new phone than repair your broken one and, if they could, would make your device implode if you do anything they don’t approve of. I’m still waiting for them to be benevolent enough to allow me to code on an M1 iPad, a device that has all the power of a mac but is completely knee capped by its OS.
I love Apple the designer, but unfortunately Apple the business makes it impossible for me to support them.
This is a great point. Anyone that says that the MacBook is a piece of crap has never used one (other than the first gen 12 inch MacBook) they are awesome and the design is great.
MacOS on the other hand really gets on my nerves and all of their anti-consumer stuff is enough for me to avoid them entirely. I won’t even call them overpriced because a PC similarly equipped with a monitor as nice as theirs is just as much.
I wish there was a hardware designer as good as Apple on the PC side but because they are so good people excuse abhorrent business practices. You don’t see people vehemently defending stupid things that Dell does for instance.
Great point. I can’t think of another company in the phone/computer industry that has such a cult following, that it allows them to get away with awful business practices without criticism from its loyal fan base.
I would also love to see a competitor to Apple make equally great products without all the awful business practices… Although I think the sad reality is that Apple’s anti-consumer practices earns them so much money, that it allows them to spend more on UX design, R&D, hardware etc and create better products.
As for the “overpriced” description, I’d say it’s a bit more debatable for a MacBook, but it’s a lot more noticeable on Apple’s other products (The most egregious example, of course, is the infamous $999 monitor stand). Even the accessories, such as a simple charger or adapter, will require you to pay the Apple Tax too.
Well said. I agree with your point. I love Apple designs/products but hate Apple business practices.
I guess my point is that people who buy an Apple product know that it’s a package deal. For instance, you know that you will get a beautiful high-end iPhone but you can’t side load apps. So it’s a case of weighing up the advantages and disadvantages.
And yes, I agree that the Magic Mouse is poorly designed, which is uncharacteristic of Apple. I was given one from work to use with my work-issued MacBook. And it was only when my mouse battery ran out for the first time that I discovered that you can’t charge and use the mouse at the same time! So frustrating!
Apple absolutely can do some great things, but I cannot overlook their anti-consumer practices towards the right to repair. The fact that aftermarket parts have to reuse a chip for the sole reason of marking the serial number the same as the original is ridiculous and should be illegal.
Also Apple devices are only more “private” in the sense that the prevent third parties from collecting your data (don’t get me wrong, this is great), but then proceed to go and collect the same data for their own uses instead.
Another baffling thing I found is that you can’t transfer files from the device if iCloud is enabled? That’s fucking crazy to me. I get that it’s not a common thing to do but I had multiple customers ask how they’d get something off, and the answer was to slowly download it from the cloud, if it was something that happened to be backed up.
Apple devices are only more “private” in the sense that the prevent third parties from collecting your data (don’t get me wrong, this is great), but then proceed to go and collect the same data for their own uses instead.
While I accept that Apple are far from perfect, my understanding is that even their data collection for their own purposes is still less than the data collection that Google use for their own purposes. And since their are only two major phone OS (Android and iOS), we can only choose between the lesser of the two evils.
After all, do you want to give your data to a company which is the world’s biggest ad company? Or instead give your data to a company whose business model is convincing people to buy $1000+ phone every year?
But yeah, I agree that Apple’s anti-consumer practices are awful. I wasn’t aware of the aftermarket parts re-using chips just for the serial numbers and I’m not even the least bit surprised. We need governments to bring in legislation to protect right to repair, because companies like Apple can’t be reasonable.
Oh google is for sure worse, they are an ad company primarily afterall
I use Iphone and Ipad just for the banking. I distrust Android. It is an open system, and used a lot more for data collection than Apple’s ecosystem is. The return you get from a data request between apple and an Android system is vast. I refuse to use Facebook and the likes.
I never buy the latest edition of Iphone anymore. I have done in the past, but the idea of spending £1200 on a phone seems stupid to me. I have very few apps on both the Iphone and Ipad. I use a PC for other stuff. Iphone hardware is good with the CPU side of things, but the cameras are very inferior compared to some android phones.
I use a windows PC to move my own music to my iphone, but it is a hampered system. I really do not understand why they have not been brought to the spotlight of the monopolies commission because of how bad they hinder transfers. I have a process I have to follow to get new music on my iphone. Anyone who wants movies on their apple products should look at VLC. It is the easiest method. I should add I haven’t added new music for a long time. This could have changed, but I would be sceptical until I saw it for myself.
I look down on anyone buying a Macbook. They are total dogcrap, and massively overpriced. They are designed to fail in many areas, the latest being the SSDs that are causing surges in the motherboard, which destroys it. Apple constructively inhibits any repairs behind software encoding and pressure it puts on 3rd party suppliers. They lobby US government to restrict self repairs. You are literally throwing money into Apple’s bank account for very little return.
Intel macbooks deserve the hate, but the apple silicon ones are genuinely impressive to the point of being worth it until the competition catches up in terms of ARM performance, especially in terms of battery life.
When was the last time Apple used an Arm chips over intel ? According to the Wiki, this was 2005. X86 software and GPUs were behind apple by quite a way back then. Did they still add Arm to later versions?
Originally X86 was not built with graphics processing in mind. It did not really show anything worth while until the Nvidia viper GPUs in the mid 90s. Prior to that Amiga had the best for graphics processing. I seem to remember Lightshow being the software for Amiga (don’t quote me on that, it is from memory). PC became the best for gaming when Voodoo release their first card (possibly 97/98), but they still could not compete with an Apple in graphic processing. Amiga had fell away by this time.
The whole apple ethos is to entirely control your product because you’re too stupid too. You can try to see the nuance in that if you want I suppose, but I’m not really seeing anything meaningful myself.
-Long iOS support. Typically you can expect an iPhone to be supported for 5-7 years, which is well above the average in the industry.
This I do agree with
- No bloatware or adverts on the iPhone
GrapheneOS
- Better privacy than Google Android/Microsoft Windows
GrapheneOS on phone, linux on PC.
- High-end hardware, e.g. M1 chip in MacBooks.
This I also agree with, but fuck broadcom wifi drivers.
- User friendly design. Nice user experience.
Eh, it is “so easy a child could do it,” yes, but the lack of ability to do what I want with my own computer or phone negatively impacts my user experience, personally. This one is way more subjective than people give it credit for tbh.
I agree with everything you said except the lightning port. The lightning port came out 4 years before USB C did and it did a much better job than any other port on the market at the time. Apple wasn’t going to make that investment if they weren’t going to stick with it for a while, for one every iPhone user would hate having to switch cables again that quickly, but also there was no guarantee USB C was going to succeed. Apple even participated in creating the USB C spec, as I detailed in another comment. Honestly I think the lightning port is actually better than USB C for what it does: incredibly thin, non clogging, waterproof phone port.
They should not have used it for other junk like the fucking Magic Mouse or whatever other mice or keyboard peripherals there were used for.
Wasn’t Rossman’s whole point that people that clowning on others for buying Apple instead of clowning on Apple is aiding Apple anyway?
If Apple get away with it, Samsung’ll do it. So will Huawei, and Google, and Motorola. Apple users are not good punching bags
But Apple wouldn’t be able to get away with it when their customers wouldn’t gobble up their bad decisions.
Like everyone using chrome and allowing Google to control the browser ecosystem? Or Samsung and get all that delicious unremovable bloatware on their phone? Every company makes these decisions because rich people who invest in them force them to make profit year over year or get sued. This is a flaw in capitalism.
Yes and we should scold Apple, Google and Samsung and consorts for their behavior. And also educate their users that are seemingly unaware of the shit that is going down.
So, tell me what mainstream phone manufacturer is without sin? Don’t tell me to root either, because you know the average person can’t do that
Nobody is without sin. Mainstream phone manufacturers, since they love to build via foxconn and the like, especially not.
But there are atleast two I know, certainly not mainstream, that try to be very good: Pine64 and Fairphone.
Don’t tell me to root either, because you know the average person can’t do that.
why not? Because of tech illiteracy or because the big wigs don’t want to enable people to have an actual choice; but we know its both.
Yes. Both. We live in the real world, so we have to deal with what actually exists, not what we want to exist.
You should look into the GrapheneOS installation process. It’s actually pretty easy, you can flash it from the web browser. I had a slight problem during install, so I hopped into their matrix room and someone said “try a different cable” and it worked, simple as. The process was pretty well documented, other than my bad cable all I had to do was follow the prompts, and the good cable was the one that came with the pixel, so just use that and you’re gold, you can even flash it from a different android phone’s browser instead of a PC, they really couldn’t make it any easier.
Rossman has been spewing literal facts for years now.
I freely admit to being that sucker. In a weak moment during a Covid lockdown I bought an iPad Pro. Worst purchase ever. It’s too heavy to use comfortably, the battery life is shit and the paucity of apps compared with my Android phone is ridiculous. Worst of all, it died suddenly less than 18 months after I bought it. It was replaced under consumer laws here, but still. I feel like an idiot for having bought it.
The only other Apple product I own is a 160GB iPod Classic, bought in 2007 and still going strong. Sturdy, good battery life, small size, decent interface, room for all my music. So of course it’s no longer produced or supported.
I’m convinced people who post these haven’t actually used apple devices seriously without going into it with their superiority complex. the fluidity and peace of mind not having to find fucking drivers for some shit from 2004 that have long been consumed by time it just plugs in and works. Or the fact that for instance a MacBook comes with everything you need to say decompress a file without downloading winrar or 7zip it’s built in. The apple version of ms office comes with the device. Not to mention the software being specifically written for the hardware means i haven’t had a day ruining crash in so long i can’t remember. Not having God damn ads on my desktop you gotta be kidding me. Text messages on all my devices. My mouse and keyboard on my mac can automatically control my iPad. Sure you can kinda do these things on the bootleg os’s kinda sorta but when it comes out of the box like that and i don’t have to fuck with 20 3rd party apps and ads on everything is 10000% worth it to me.
The walled golden garden is great isn’t it?
I am forced to use a MacBook at work and I fricking hate it. The software follows such strange HIGs. Just look at the finder. Why is the default action on a folder/file to RENAME it? If I press enter on a folder I want to enter it, if I press enter on a file I want to open it.
Why does apples keyboard layout with DEde Locale is so utterly strange compared to IBM keyboard layouts?
Why do they not print atleast the second modifier row on the keys?
To use Macintosh’s you really need to think differently.
But yeah the interconnection inside it’s eco system is pretty neat.
Also, why whine about drivers for something from 2004? You, certainly as a apple user, don’t have anything that old anyway. And the option to be able to use stuff from that age by installing a driver is super useful.
Why is the default action on a folder/file to RENAME it? If I press enter on a folder I want to enter it, if I press enter on a file I want to open it.
The Mac is mouse-centric. You double click to open anything , you right-click to access other operations.
If you single-click and then start using using the keyboard, it’s a fair bet that you want to rename it.
I’m pretty sure opt-enter will actually open the file if you want to open it… or cmd-O, of course
The Mac is mouse-centric. You double click to open anything , you right-click to access other operations.
Or command+click because up until osx, or even way later than that macOS didnt even had rightclick.
If you single-click and then start using using the keyboard, it’s a fair bet that you want to rename it.
I didn’t single-click on an item. I moved to the item with CURSOR KEYS and then hit enter. Why does the finder half asses this interaction (and moving a folder up) while moving the cursor and selecting/unselecting items is done like on other plattforms?
I’m pretty sure opt-enter will actually open the file if you want to open it… or cmd-O, of course
And this doesn’t strike you as being unintuitive?
Or command+click because up until osx, or even way later than that macOS didnt even had rightclick.
The Mac introduced right click with System 8 in 1997. The keyboard equivalent is ctrl-click, by the way - not command click.
Why does the finder half asses this interaction (and moving a folder up) while moving the cursor and selecting/unselecting items is done like on other plattforms?
Not sure what you mean. Holding shift while using the keyboard (or mouse) will let you select multiple contiguous items. Hold cmd to select items dotted about.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201236 May be a helpful read
And this doesn’t strike you as being unintuitive?
Not really, CMD-O for open, together with CMD-C for copy, CMD-V for paste etc were introduced in 1982 with the Apple Lisa.
As I say, Finder is primarily designed to be mouse driven, so most people will be using double-click to open, otherwise CMD-O is your friend.
The good news There is a tiny bit of freeware available called “PresButan” that will let you modify the Finder behaviour match your preferences. You can grab it here: http://briankendall.net/presButan/index.htm
Enjoy!
No I am saying that the Finder nearly got everything right in regards to keyboard interacting EXCEPT going up a Folder, entering a folder or executing a folder.
cmd-o is ONLY required on the macOS while other OSses and Systems just require a simple Enter-keystroke. That’s my issue! Needing a Daemon to fix this issue is quite odd to me.
What is wrong about going up a folder?
I think the problem is that you are keyboard-centric and the Finder, since its introduction is mouse-centric. Therefore the assumption is that if you have selected a file, whatever you’re going to do to it - ‘Open’ isn’t likely. Afterall, if you were going to open it, you would have double clicked on it, or dragged it on top of an application icon.
You can argue that that’s “bad” if you want - and OK. But the daemon will fix if for you.
Similarly, the mechanisms for going up a folder (and there are many) are mouse-centric.
Seems more like an apple user with superioty complex who never used other os to me
Or another person who just can’t let someone who likes apple devices, like them.
The op post is pretty terrible. It’s insultingly in their superior complex. That’s what most extreme “all users who do x” takes are.
The response wasn’t that there is no other way to fulfill this list of things that they like, but that for them, apple devices fulfill this list of things.
I’ve used plenty of OSes. I switch between Linux for our servers, windows on my work computer and my gaming computer, and apples oses on the apple devices I own. I prefer macos to windows any day. That’s my personal preference. You prefer Linux? Good, have fun. Windows? Sure, whatever floats your boats.
I agree but the fediverse is built on open source evangelists you aren’t going to get a lot of agreement. I use an iPhone an Apple Watch and AirPods and have a work issued Mac I like them all just fine
Apart from office pre installed, Linux has all these benefits for free. And even then, many distros have FOSS alternatives pre installed. Not great if you NEED MSOffice for work, but many suites, like OnlyOffice, are fully compatible with MSO formats.
Woah, cool! Completely unrelated, but I just upvoted your comment and it reloaded just that comment to reflect your recent update! Didn’t have that on reddit!
Ah, I also was unaware of this feature. That’s good. I’m terrible at proofreading, and always end up needing to back and correct things after posting. So, if someone’s already typing before i edit, there’s still a chance they’ll see my edit before sending their pedantic correction haha!
Your point is solid, but that level of polish on Apple products is only skin deep. For example, there are several missing features and issues with MacOS that have gone unaddressed for years.
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Window edge snapping is incredibly frustrating. Linux desktops and Microsoft Windows have had proper window snapping support for decades.
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The app uninstall process is inconsistent, with some apps remaining contained in the .app folder while others spill out all over the system.
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The recovery mode process for resetting an Intel-based Mac is incredibly tedious and time consuming.
However, MacOS isn’t the only Apple product with issues.
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WatchOS has an inconsistent and difficult to navigate UI. The bubble menu is inconsistent and difficult to navigate, and the list view requires that you sort by alphabetical when a “recently used” sort would be significantly more efficient.
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IOS doesn’t allow sideloading apps.
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TVOS is filled with ads for Apple’s premium services like AppleTV+
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IOS home screen icons cannot have blank space and must instead tile to the top of the screen.
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Methods for going back to what was previously onscreen are inconsistent in IOS.
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IOS browsers are required to use mobile Safari’s web engine.
However, this isn’t to say that Apple products are bad, simply to remind you that they do have flaws. Based on your wording of “bootleg os’s” I can’t quite tell what your referring to. Windows is the only OS I’m aware of other than MacOS that has heavy advertising, but your phrasing seems to place it in a different category altogether. Although if you are looking for a new OS to try I highly recommend looking into the many Linux distributions available. I recommend Linux Mint to beginners, since it is generally the simplest to use.
I am not who you were talking to, but:
Window edge snapping is incredibly frustrating. Linux desktops and Microsoft Windows have had proper window snapping support for decades.
Completely agree, if you want a good solution though, don’t use any of those window managers that people always list for Mac like magnet, rectangle, whatever other junk is being sold. Use hammerspoon. Not only will you get better window management than even Linux (yes, I’m still yet to find a solution like it for Linux), you’ll also get tons of other things like easy jumping to apps, automation capabilities that would be very hard to do in Automator, etc. It’s definitely the best app on Mac by far. Oh and it’s open source and free.
The app uninstall process is inconsistent, with some apps remaining contained in the .app folder while others spill out all over the system
Isn’t this the fault of the app though? Apps that need to do stuff outside of the bounds of a regular app install shit elsewhere. I do hate that though. Not really sure it’s better on Linux though. If you install using apt or yum or whatever then sure, but plenty of other apps don’t install that way and they can leave junk all over the place too.
The recovery mode process for resetting an Intel-based Mac is incredibly tedious and time consuming
A lot of stuff on the Intel macs are terrible lol.
WatchOS has an inconsistent and difficult to navigate UI. The bubble menu is inconsistent and difficult to navigate, and the list view requires that you sort by alphabetical when a “recently used” sort would be significantly more efficient.
Agreed, but you can also just see recent apps by double tapping the button on the side. You don’t need to go to the app list at all.
IOS doesn’t allow sideloading apps.
Very annoying
TVOS is filled with ads for Apple’s premium services like AppleTV+
The only place I’ve ever seen ads on TVos is literally on the Apple TV app. Where else are you seeing them?
IOS home screen icons cannot have blank space and must instead tile to the top of the screen.
This is so incredibly annoying for multiple reasons. Any time you try to move icons or folders around it makes it impossible because everything on screen reflows as you’re trying to organize. It’s fucking insane.
Methods for going back to what was previously onscreen are inconsistent in IOS.
This is the second time in a week I’ve seen someone say this. I don’t know what everyone is talking about. Can you explain more?
IOS browsers are required to use mobile Safari’s web engine
This is also super annoying.
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I’ve been using a MacBook for my work for years now (not voluntarily). I’ve always had a Windows desktop as my main machine. Your experience is completely different from mine. I’ve found that it’s easy to use the MacBook, so long as I want to do things the way Apple dictates. With Windows, I can discover and tweak my own processes to work the way I want to. With Apple I feel entirely boxed in.
All that being said, I think the whole discussion can get ridiculous. It shouldn’t bother anyone one way or the other which product someone prefers, and most of the time, it sounds like a Pepsi vs Coke argument to me.
I agree, it’s convenient to have a lot of that stuff work right out of the box, but then some obvious stuff, like making a slideshow from pictures on a usb device, or printing to PDF, or using network printers on mobile is either needlessly complicated or impossible (Odd examples but I’m not a daily Mac or iPhone user, these are just things I’ve encountered working on other’s devices)
Rossmann was a lot better before he realized he could use his platform as a soapbox for weird right-libertarian politics. No, Louis, I didn’t come here to hear you rant about how much you have to pay in taxes, I want to know how you solved the problem of no power on this MacBook.
I also don’t get why he refuses to have accurate descriptions on his videos so they can actually be found when searching instead of having to skip through the videos to see, and instead just spams his parts store and a million other things on every video.
I had a chance to train with him, but went with Jessa at iPad Rehab instead, and I’m glad, because her class was an actual class plus dozens of hours of practical work, compared to Louis’s “come over to my shop for like 2 hours after we close and I’ll kinda just give you crap to do while bitching at you if you don’t understand my ineffectual explanations” that I’ve heard his class is from multiple people who took it.
I buy Fairphone!
If they had at least a Headphone Jack and longer Software Support it would been have Great.
Uhm, the Fiarphone two got it’s last update this year but you probably mean feature updates which usually aren’t that many. It’s supported by LineageOS and various community projects far byond that tho and they provide replacments parts for ages too so beside of the missing headphone jack and that crime of a wireless Airpod clone they did as a result I don’t really feel like your comment is fait tbh.
With Updates i mean Security Updates for more then 6 Years it shouldnt be the Job of the Community.
I see many who use their Smartphone for more than 8 Years (3-World-Country) ~70% of the Apps can run on older Devices only AI and and Mobile Games are the Exeption.
The Fairphone 2 was released in 2015, I get that more would be even better but Android is build in a way that makes continues updates hard and this goes far byond other manufacturers already…
Great choice, maybe I will have the money one day but at least I know what I would spend it on!
Been using Android for over a decade now. With the recent removal of 3.5mm jacks, I had to look into usb-c to 3.5mm adapters, because I prefer using my wired IEMs.
It turns out the apple usb-c to 3.5mm adapter is actually top notch, and only costs $9. Plenty of folks use that as an upgrade for their computers built in soundboard, because the digital to analog converter on the adapter is excellent and superior to most built in soundboards.
I’ve always liked their earbuds, they’re the only reputable manufacturers that still use the old style rather than those SkullCandy or beats ass inserts that don’t fit in my ear, so they’re the only headphones I can actually use. The old Bose inserts worked for me too but idek if Bose makes that style anymore.
This is solid advice for anyone who loves their music.
I miss the 3.5 so much. Especially the LG G20(on onward) series. But it is not to be. But the apple adapter on your phone is a great substitute. I’ve done it for a while now.
Didn’t know it was used for folks on the comp, so that pretty neat to know.
Facts! They buy simply to show off the logo and demonstrate they can afford to hang in a walled garden.
Edit: iPhones are more “private and secure” out of the box, but it literally takes half a brain with 5 minutes in Android settings to surpass this LOW bar.
Android has encryption by default, good sandboxing, ability to install a more secure OS (if OEM doesn’t suck), etc.
The only thing iOS has going for it is that it treats the users like babies and doesn’t allow sideloading
it treats the users like babies
That’s been Apple’s entire M.O. since their beginning. It’s why they brought GUIs to the desktop in the early 80s, and retain such tight control over their designs. If there is a chance a user could become lost, misconfigure, or break something, they default to locking it down.
They turn computing devices into toasters that Grandma can operate.
While this is true, when I still used macOS, I simply learnt to use the terminal. It’s unix like so it’s not that hard. Allows you far more freedom. They basically lock away anything remotely difficult behind the terminal so that it scares off casual users. Basic stuff? GUI. Anything more difficult? Terminal.
I think apple’s software is excellent. Certainly better than windows in many ways.
The hardware and how they treat customers when things break due to poor design? That’s another matter.
The default installation brings ages old tools for the terminal, due to the GNU tools updating their licenses to GPLv3. So first thing you do is you install homebrew, which is slow and kind of miserable if you compare it to any other Linux package manager. Of course you can install nix, and have a half-decent experience in the terminal.
Then, of course, a lot of things are just not available or are super weird configured from the terminal. There’s no systemd, docker is running a Linux virtual machine in the background and is slow as hell, try to have a few daemons running as services, configure that from the terminal and use the machine headless. It’s not a great experience for an experienced Linux/BSD hacker, and lot of the stuff is missing man pages, or they are just so old they don’t matter anymore.
And, hey, a new OS update comes and you just have to fix things for hours because the terminal experience is not The removed Way and that compiler toolchain you need every day is now broken…
I stopped using OSX in 2008, when an OS upgrade forced me to give my credit card to their App Store, to load an Xcode component I needed to continue using the free compiler I’ve been using for years before that. Installed Linux after that and never looked back.
Pruvate if you don’t count Apples own trackers, they don’t want to protect users fron Fuckbook but rather monopolize data collection and with it properly targeted ads on their devices, one of the only times I ever found myself agreeing with the Zuck!
It’s not an A or B choice in any sense, framing anything in the tech space along these lines is equal to Dems vs Reps…There’s vivid documented work arounds for both, both Apple and Zuck deserve to get lost base on what they’ve turned into.
That’s not at all what I wrote, the Zuck was just one of the few to actually point out the monopolistic bs behind it all while the world seemed to party because Apple protects peoples privacy now…
My fault, I mistook your statement.
No worries, I guess I could have worded it a little better! :)
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After over a decade on Android I’m going to switch to an iPhone for my next phone (once they go USB c). I have always bought flag ship Android phones and I haven’t been impressed lately. Awful customer service from Google with my latest Pixel 6 was the last straw. I don’t mind playing extra to make sure I have a working phone
You too? I started with Android 1.5 (or whatever the first Motorola Droid shipped with). At that time, Android felt so much closer to my OS of choice - a Linux distro - that I was excited to own a Google phone.
Over time I’ve been less than enthusiastic about what each iteration of the OS brings. Now that it’s near impossible to have root and not have to play Whack A Mole with hiding that root access from specific apps (never mind finding phones where you can unlock the bootloader), I’m out. Google is making it impossible to use your phone the way you want. Pixel phones aren’t attractive to me based on really spotty history.
Linux phones just aren’t there yet. I’ve owned a couple of Pinephones, but I want more from them than they can currently offer.
That leaves Apple. They have their issues, sure, but if I can’t have root control of my phone without massive hassle, then I might as well have a more polished experience. I’m envious of the free features my wife gets on her 2nd gen SE.
I went the other way, I don’t need my phone to do fancy shit because I have a PC, so I put GrapheneOS on it and have no regrets. I could even have a separate profile with google services on it if I wanted but I haven’t needed to.
Yeah, I’ve lost all faith in Google and the direction they’re taking Android and the Internet
The people who killed the headphone jack…
Bought Asus laptop, just 1.5 year later the product is discontinued and no support page can be found. They also stopped selling the charging brick for it.
Bought Sony headphones, a year later wanted to replace the foam. No customer support, no repair, just nada.
Bought Samsung phone. Filled to brim with bloat. Shows me ads on lockscreen. Crawling speed in 2 years. No updates.
Bought an iPhone for mom. Still getting updates after 4 years. Got battery replaced with no hassle.
Don’t knock it till you try it.
That’s why all mine are hand-me-downs. My family are the suckers.
I’m an android user and have been from the start.
However, I have tiny ears, so I can’t really use those in-ear earbuds that are common now. I did some research and frequently at the top of the lists for open earbuds that are Bluetooth are the…you might need to sit down for this…airpods. Yes, I know, crazy.
So here I am with airpods and a pixel 7. And they work great for $100 which isn’t a crazy price compared to earbuds from companies like Google or Sony. Yes, most Apple stuff is overpriced, but they make good hardware, and I wish fanboys would stop making everything so black and white.
The only product from Apple I’ve ever been impressed by was Airpods and now every other company has them. I bought mine on a huge sale because I don’t respect their bullshit prices and I do like them a lot, but I’m sure there are other brands I would like just as much now that they’ve been around for years.
I tend to buy iMacs for my workhorse home machines. They tend to last about 10 years or more before I feel the need to replace them.
Great.
That’s funny because I think the AirPods are quite terrible, but what is great about them is how they just work. I have beats because I wanted them for working out, but they never have issues connecting or switching between devices. But they don’t sound great and you can most definitely get higher quality audio from other brands. But you can’t beat how easy it is to use them.
For me it’s at least 90% the shape. I absolutely cannot stand the normal earbuds that have rubber you shove into your ear canal. It’s insanely uncomfortable to me, borderline painful even with the smallest tips I’ve found. So when I first saw the shape of the original Airpods it was like beams of light shined down and harps started playing. So there’s tons of alternatives now, but the ones I can choose from is still slim picking.
