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Android users be like:
But they already switched to Android when Apple removed the headphone jack. Oh wait, that's right - nobody did.
I am more happy than ever with my GrapheneOS phone. Especially after they refused to include age verfication I recommend everyone to switch to grapheneos or any other custom ROM android
I’m dabbling switching to GrapheneOS. Apple was the lesser of (obvious) evils compared to Google, but that’s becoming less true daily.
I don’t think I can make it my primary device yet, still need to de-cloud a bunch of services, but it’s very likely my next device won’t be an iPhone.
I'm running GrapheneOS since about 2 years now and I'm more than happy.
Didn't had any real issues with it.
Art the start Android Auto didn't work, but it does now - although I don't really use it.
I have Google play service stuff installed, but sandboxed.
And my banking apps work just fine.
Friend of mine made the switch a few months ago and haven't heard of any complaints either.
Can highly recommend it :-)
I'd use Android Auto + Sandboxed Google Play more if Android Auto allowed NewPipe, OsmAnd and other FOSS apps to be added to the dashboard.
I somehow also get a lower resolution Google maps, when using Google Auto.
That was the reason I don't really use it.
For music and stuff, I just use Bluetooth
But good luck having Google add something as NewPipe to be allowed with Android Auto ;-)
Yeah but then you'll have a green bubble
It's amazing how apple managed to get Americans took care about that. Meanwhile no one else cares. No one uses iMessage in Europe or Asia.
Nobody over the age of 12 cares in the US either
Maybe in your bubble.
Go then. There are other worlds than these... (that's from the Dark Tower books by Stephen King).
Honestly... I have both. I have a 2024 iPhone Pro Max (16) and a 2019 Galaxy S (10). The iPhone is my main device. The Android phone is WiFi only, but if I have WiFi, I'd rather browse Lemmy on that, because iOS has this controversial feature where it will change what you type after you've typed it. So you're constantly proofreading. Android doesn't do that shit, or at least Samsung's fork doesn't do it. There are a few things I like about Android. My Android phone is basically a NookPhone — the phone you get in Animal Crossing. The case, the background, the icons... of course they're just icons for actual apps. I don't have the NookPhone apps. "Pro Camera" just opens the Samsung camera. "Passport" just opens my Animal Crossing item tracker. "Chat" just opens Telegram, which I just use for cross-platform media-rich chat with my wife. You can't do that with iPhone — certainly not the 3x3 app grid the NookPhone has.
And there are a couple things iOS does better. Apple Health doesn't sell your data. A couple years ago, my wife's Galaxy phone told her she'd have to agree to let Samsung sell her health data, or she'd have to delete it and opt out of the app. No one's been able to point us to a health data tracking app that is free, private, and good on Android. Everyone agrees (or refuses to speak up and disagree) that Apple Health is the de facto winner here. So it's worth having an iPhone for that, at the least. Plus, AirPods are at least marginally better than the Android equivalents.
So yeah... at some point, I'm gonna upgrade the Android phone. Might even switch to Android, as in, move my cell service from the iPhone to the Android phone. And still keep the iPhone for health tracking, music, and whatever else I want it for. At least until the Mac can do all that stuff. As of now, it actually can't. Music yes, health no. As I am also a Mac user. I would have no problem going Mac + Android, if my Mac did Apple Health (as opposed to just mirroring the notifications). I tried to make a Shortcut where my Mac could log Health data. It wouldn't even log the data and pass it to the iPhone over iCloud. It straight up said "no" to that. So the iPhone has me for Health data.
But I'm not gonna sit there and pretend Apple gives a shit if I buy an Android phone. That's just stupid. And Google gives less of a shit if you buy an iPhone, because they figure chances are good you'll just put Chrome and other Google apps on it and hand them your data that way. No, I buy what I want because it's the best for me and what I'm doing. IDGAF what the corpos think about it.
iOS has this controversial feature where it will change what you type after you've typed it. So you're constantly proofreading.
You can disable auto-correction: Settings > General > Keyboard > Auto-Correction
I agree this is annoying and this is enabled by default.
Disabled on mine. It still changes what I put. Apparently "and" is a bad word now. I can get it capitalised, I can get sand, I can get Andy, but "and" in lowercase, Apple says no-can-do. (Typing on my Mac now, on a mechanical keyboard. Odd that the Mac doesn't have this problem. Probably because it has an actual keyboard. Mac does have predictive text, which is kind of annoying... I see the appeal, but I'm never gonna reach over and strike Tab to complete a sentence or word.
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Apple isn’t an advertising company so it feels like they’d be more up to not selling your data and such. But honestly I don’t really trust it.
I went from Android to iOS purely because I was sick of devices being supported for a year or two, when Apple supports their phones with mainline updates for six+. I feel like the overall user experience is better, it’s smoother, more polished, and I can do what I need to do rather than struggle with something half-baked.
My work phone is a Pixel 6, and I absolutely hate using it. Google hasn’t worked on the user experience even a little.
Would still rather a janky Linux phone that I actually own than anything else.
Apple doesn't really promise device update time frames. They basically support a device as long as it's feasible because they are still, at their core, a computer company, though they are more focused on the iPhone and related accessories than the Mac lately. They are transitioning to a services company. But still, updates are based on what they conservatively think the device can handle. Even phones that aren't getting the latest iOS still get security updates. iOS 18 and older versions are still getting updated, but they get no new features.
With Android, it's more about getting people to buy new phones, which isn't a dumb idea from a business perspective. Back when US carriers were giving phones away a lot more (like 15 years ago), it was actually a game to piss off customers so they go and buy a phone from a competitor sooner. They all benefited from churn. These days, Google and Samsung are offering 5+ years of promised updates, but they don't support them beyond that, because a customer who won't upgrade has no value to them.
iOS is a bit more polished than Apple, though that's largely down to the developer. It's easier to support iPhones because there are fewer of them. But plenty of apps are just fine on Android.
Agree with you about a janky Linux phone. I kinda want it to be janky! I miss when phones were kinda rough and you had to know how they worked. I loved messing with custom firmware around 2012-ish. Android Jellybean was awesome for tinkering.
Jeez, every platform and company is going to that ID and face recognition crap. Should we say goodbye to our little bit of privacy and anonymity on the Internet?
Why’s Apple even doing this? They’re not a social media platform to begin with.
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How does this age verification shit even works? Do you just tick how old you are and that's that and is then used as parental control setting globally or you need to send your ID to some bullshit data mining company that got hacked 3 times already in last year? I don't understand this whole thing.
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