true
Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
Flukas88@feddit.it 5 months ago
Sadly iOS is not much better
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You can’t sideload on iOS at all.
Flukas88@feddit.it 5 months ago
In eu you kinda can for some degree
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 months ago
Would be really curious to find out how that works. Got any good sources?
Flukas88@feddit.it 5 months ago
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You can, but it is a pita. Having to buy dev certs and sign the .ipa file, etc. But technically, if you really want to, you can.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 months ago
But is it even slightly better? It’s debatable. Both are completely awful, but I guess iOS is just terrible in different ways.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My last iPhone was a iPhone 5. Or 6, maybe?
Fast forward, and I’ve been on Android until right now, when I got an iPhone 16 in a loss-leader sale.
…And I am astounded by how much worse it is. My old jailbroken iPhone’s UI was both simpler and 100x times more customizable and useful than all the bizzare required gestures. I had basically every feature they have now, like the action button, and more. And it somehow feels slower in browsing than my SD845 Android 9 phone.
It wasn’t perfect back then, but the App Store is flooded with garbage now.
WTF has Apple been doing?
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 months ago
They’ve been busy reading the history books to find out what Android did 4 years ago so that they can start developing those same features today. Any remaining time and effort went into creating vacuous marketing hype.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Irony is Android felt way more intuitive, including to my non techy family.