Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 hours agoMy 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 9 hours 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 9 hours ago
Irony is Android felt way more intuitive, including to my non techy family.