Seriously, does anyone think Apple users care about unlocked bootloaders and LDAC codecs? They want whatever the new iOS features are and their AirPods to work seamlessly.

I have an Android phone and an iPhone, and they both do pretty much the same thing. I can do some things with Android that iOS can't, but it's nothing an average user couldn't do without, or even know they're missing.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They’re also all made by heartless megacorps anyway. None of the companies are really ‘good’ just different forms of terrible.

[–] colderr@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna sound like an Apple fanboy but, I would say Apple is the least worst of them all. Don't get me wrong, they're still terrible and all the shit they do but, they at least seem like an okayish company. But I still hate the whole closed ecosystem, and the stupid non-repairability but, almost every phone is now like that sadly.

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Apple installed nets on the roofs of their factories because too many workers committed suicide jumping off them.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

To be fair i do care quite a bit about that. Phones just make bad computers to me. Small screen and half is used by a keyboard.

They seem designed to frustrate me so “it just works (most times)” is the only way i can stomach owning one.

I have a dream where apple is forced to make ios fully open source and where screen/input devices can freely stream any system/OS from a dedicated server.

Iphones are so “cleverly” dumb it makes them usable.

[–] msage@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I had iPhone in my hand for app development, and I wanted to shoot it out of the cannon into the sun.

You have to understand the thinking process behind the UI, and it's not 'intuitive' to everyone.

And I just couldn't use it, it drove me crazy.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Switching OS is a pain. And when you aren’t using it as your daily driver, it just makes it worse. It took me a couple of weeks of exclusively using iOS for it to become comfortable. If I were using Android at the same time I doubt it would’ve ever stuck and I’d still be annoyed rather than quite comfortable and agile now.

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Not being able to do some things is the biggest blocker.

Sideloading for instance. Photos disappearing inside the Photos app and not being in files is also weird. It just felt like I was a moron who couldn't handle my own files.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

where screen/input devices can freely stream any system/OS from a dedicated server.

I experimented with that, you can kinda do it with Android and an Android emulator. It was decent on the local network, ok with good cellular signal, and terrible when cellular wasn't the greatest

[+] answersplease77@lemmy.world -12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think even the average users are becomming aware because of how inferior iOS is. For example, all these things I'm going to mention below are doable on any Android (no root or bootloader required) since 2015 or even older versions while iPhone cant do shit:

iPhone cant temporarily disable apps, can't prevent apps from using networks, cant disable system apps, cant open multi apps in mutli windows, cant location spoof, cant disable any system app or feature, cant customize themes or control anything in comparison.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Yes but 99.9% of users don’t care about any of that, that’s what others were saying in this conversation.

Just to bring my personal pov: I’m a tech guy and I couldn’t care less about any of those features. My phone is an appliance like my dishwasher, i only need it to do well the few things it does for me and the iPhone does them incredibly well. Productivity work and fun is done on real computers. I don’t care if android phones can purr or do somersaults.

If you like to do complicated stuff on your phone then those things matter to you and you will deem iOS inferior, and that’s fine. But realise you are planets away from the average user.

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can uninstall a lot of Apple’s apps that come preinstalled on an iPhone. Not all of them, but a surprising amount.

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m using both iPhones and Android phones (vanilla and rooted), the only valid point you make is about using themes. I belong to to the 99,9% of users who don’t bother.

You forgot some important feature that Android phones have: They don’t pester you too much about privacy: they allow apps per default to use the GPS, message you, etc. Also they come with a lot of unneeded apps preinstalled, some of these being impossible to deinstall