Apple. I want nothing to do with a closed ecosystem and I loathe how central AppleID is to absolutely everything.
I have fdroid and a few custom apks that wouldn’t be available on their store, so those would be hooped as well.
Apple and I have very different notions of what it means to own something.
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Firefox with ublock and a normal engine
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Newpipe for downloading stuff off YT
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OSMand for offline navigation
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f-droid for foss software
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Rethink to carefully ban everything that doesn’t need internet from connecting
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a phone with a nice amoled screen and all-day quickcharging battery that costs 180€ (motorola g52)
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not one ad anywhere
a better question is, why would I want anything else? An iphone seems like a sharp downgrade.
Just fyi: OSMand is available on iOS.
I know, and the last time I saw it it was just complete buggy shit with a different UI and nowhere near feature parity.
It continues to be buggy shit. I tried switching from Google Maps to OSMAnd on iOS and didn’t last a week
not one ad anywhere
iPhone doesn’t have ads
If you go to a website in a browser it has ads, yeah?
Cuz FF with ublock origin prevents that on Android but i don’t believe that’s an option on iPhone
we have AdGuard that works just as well
Oh, in safari?
Yup
Neat, I had no idea it allows that now
I’m an iPhone beetch but I DEFINITELY would be so happy to have uBlock. There’s some stuff like AdGuard and Wipr but uBlock Origin is undefeated.
Wipr is also dope! I think AdGuard works better, though.
The web does without ublock origin.
Ublock origin isn’t the only adblocker, duh
I know that and you can keep the others. Take also the new chrome version of ublock origin for manifest v3
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Honestly, just navigating the phone is a giant pain in the ass. I bought my wife an iPad and finding basic settings or locating an app is a nightmare. Any time she needs help with it I feel like I’m pulling teeth.
This is part of it for me. Apple decides how a device should be used and you have to learn a new “intuitive” interface that is unlike every other computer device.
They have streamlined everything to the point that you can’t deviate from their use flow and it drives me insane trying to do a task in an alternative way from how they envision it being done.
Android is like using a computer, IOS is like using a computer of you have never used one.
The back button being top left still baffles me to this day. Let’s put it in the most hard to reach spot.
I don’t really get this. As an android user since 2009 and the evolution of android os I am now for the last year an iOS user, and the interface is the same as it was for me and my last phone. Swipe up to get to the Home Screen, long hold to see tabs running and swipe from the left to center to go back. Is this because my last phone was an LG?
The first thing I do on any new android is disable gesture navigation.
Ah ok. I honestly hate how much I love my iPhone. Its my wife’s late mothers phone and I took it kind of as a gag so I could FaceTime my family and then I figured I would go back to my LG. But damn i get day and a half to 2 days of battery life and the pictures are way better. The iOS lets me hide all my apps which is something I always hated about iPhones and there are widgets. If I could only disable the photos and maps app this phone would be mint.
I wouldn’t buy a car that could only drive on roads approved by the maker, so same goes for phone.
Paying 20% - 40% more for dumbed-down OS that limits what software I can use. I mean literally any one of those alone is a deal breaker. It was never gonna work.
Preference.
- proper adblocking with AdAway
- ability to patch official apps to remove ads and improve the usability with ReVanced
- being able to root the device and use HttpToolkit to analyze the data that flows from apps to the web
- extensive customization (I can choose my own launcher and keyboard application)
- proper file management, especially with Total Commander
- watching Dolby Vision .mkv files with mpv
- price (iPhones are all way too expensive)
- Apple’s stance against repairability
And this point is more hardware-related, but I’ve started to really love my Nothing Phone and its LED lights on the back, which produces amazing photos because the light is much softer than the small flash used by other phones. There isn’t a single Apple device with a feature like this. You could probably get a case, but it’s nice to have this integrated into the phone.
This guy phones
Sideloading apps
Paying x4 times the price for a device
I feel like I’m using a toy phone I bought for a 7 year old.
every time I have to use anything apple related, I’m instantly annoyed by the horrible user experience
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Thorough and many good points.
File level access to files. I would love to have the option of moving files in folders and connecting it to a PC to drag and drop files.
True multi tasking.
Ability to install apps from other sources.
A central nervous system
Much like many of the iPhone users when you asked the converse question, it’s not so much that something is stopping me, but that I have no interest in it. I don’t see any benefits that I care about, and it would cost time and money to switch.
Let’s pretend for a moment that I did have some desire to switch, perhaps due to some new hardware from Apple or changes to Android I found unpalatable. Here are some things I’d consider major barriers:
- Sideloading - I want to install stuff without permission from the hardware or OS vendor. Maybe I’ll even write a niche app without asking permission.
- Administrative access - I have root on my Android phone, and I didn’t have to fight it to gain root (I know that’s not true of every device). If I don’t have root or can’t get it easily, it’s not really mine.
That’s… basically it, but those are big things and Apple’s position on them is so opposite mine that they’re risking severe sanctions from the EU to comply with the EU’s sideloading regulations in the most useless way they can.
