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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 139 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Apple isn't that much of an asshole, it only does all the dick moves it is legally allowed to.

[-] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago

No their ads told me they’re the heroic guardians of my privacy.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 43 points 9 months ago

I think they're probably better on privacy than default out of the box Android phones loaded up with Google adware, but that's such an incredibly low bar.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

The only way they are better, is the fact there is only one party having access to the data, aka only Apple. On Android you have google + the manufacturer, and in some cases more than those two

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Which is obviously true, just like everything else you read on the web. If someone wrote it on the web, it has to be true. It’s we well known fact, that it physically impossible for it to be otherwise.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 22 points 9 months ago

Can't think of any worse assholes except Google.

Just because they make nice looking hardware, you give them a pass.

[-] hangukdise@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Samsung finally ditched the stupid curved glass, so Androidland now has nice hardware too

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 months ago

Good luck with that. Their phones are filled with ads and Samsung’s crappy software that can’t be removed. Apple and Google do the same thing, but their apps are at least good. As good as Samsung’s hardware is, they mess up the package with their hot garbage software.

[-] hangukdise@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I do wholeheartedly agree that Samsung writes shit software tho, but their customizations for the last seven years stopped frying my phone. (S2 was okay, S3 was such a dumpster fire of a phone caused by Samsung's deplorable coding)

I have the impression that OS restrictions imposed by Google on latest versions of Android and - perhaps - the move to Kotlin improved it. I have been using a S10+ and had no issues with software. Crappy software can be removed without root using ADB and, in my region, Samsung does not bundle carrier crap (except stupid Facebook stuff that is still present in S10 and even S24 series)

[-] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

There are 4 Samsung apps that I'll erase if it'll be just a tap. So it's not very 👎. I can use Android debug bridge to erase those but I won't bother. If there are 30 bloat apps, I'll erase those.

I've been using my Samsung a70 for about 2 years. The Samsung apps are generally fine.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 9 months ago

Yeah I never understood that. Made me stop buying Samsung phones, also because they added a price premium. Turns out that the best Android phones are Motorola phones like the Edge 30. No crapware at all and fantastic battery time.

[-] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 9 points 9 months ago

I never understood this

iPhones are fashion accessories before anything else.

Samsung for some fuckdamn reason just copycats everything Apple does.

The curved glass was a stupid, expensive, and failure prone attempt at capturing the fashion accessory market.

All it did was piss off eight years of customers.

It really is amazing how companies with ridiculous amounts of money for research and product testing and they hang on to an abject failure like this for so long.

[-] hangukdise@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

All it did was piss off eight years of customers.

Yes, curved glass serves no function and introduces a vulnerable point, prone for cracking

And makes it basically impossible to get a glass screen protector.

[-] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

And makes just holding it normally cause misclicks as the edge of your fingertips brush the curved glass.

Honestly I would be a lot less pissed about it if they just hadn't extended the touch sensitivity all the way around the curve.

[-] drawerair@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

There are a few phones (I hope there'll be more) that last 2 days with medium use. I'm :) for folks with those phones.

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