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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RealNooshie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.

But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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[–] raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(except my laptop. I just can’t).

That's kinda funny because that's probably their product category that I find the most compelling. Watches and earbuds I don't care about, phones can really go either way, but since they switched to the M chips the power and efficiency are just so good the Windows laptop just look a lot worse in comparison to me.

[–] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I admittedly haven’t looked at the MacBooks since I bought my surface, but size and storage/processing were a large part of my decision. Plus I struggle with some of the Mac gestures. I honestly can’t get past the lack of right click, HOWEVER windows is doing some seriously annoying dumb shit lately, so I’ll look at the MacBook again, when my surface dies.

Every other computer I interact with is on windows. All the software we have is windows (I’m not sure how subscription services work for switching OS).

All I’m saying is it’ll take some doing to switch over, and they hadn’t been worth it to me in past researching. Just like I’d struggle to switch from the Apple phone/watch/AirPod situation.

[–] Skies5394@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right click exists, you just have to turn it on in the trackpad menu then the bottom right corner becomes the area that will react to it. Or I think the default is two finger click for the gesture.

Edit: bottom right corner

[–] AttackBunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Today I learned. Thanks!