Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, let’s all cheer for a monopoly. That always works out well.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would rather have Linux phones, but while those exist, they are not mainstream and ready quite yet.

    So, custom Android, such as Lineage or Graphene, is about the closest we can get for now.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Graphene is half dead now that Google stopped releasing drivers. They depended pretty heavily on the pixel drivers coming out in the AOSP source.

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      • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not really, but it’s a PITA

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      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They’ve just been deprecated to doing it the same way that every other custom operating system has been doing it for a long time. It makes it slower, but it doesn’t make it impossible.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good news would be them strategically repositioning in favor of their mid-90s image. Would be hard, but doable.

  Green energy, autonomous devices, openness to tinkering, friendliness, “other companies mess with you and we don’t”, perhaps some retrofuturism. It wouldn’t even be out of character, they sort of hold the window open, with the kind of series on AppleTV they are making, and part of their advertising, and even honestly with their devices being not yet as enshittified.

  Just do that for real.

  And honestly, Apple is not the worst of these companies. Perhaps they were just worse at baiting.

  In general, over years I’m slowly becoming more and more appreciative of Apple. Their advertising is just atrocious and their stuff is very expensive in, eh, pretty outrageous ways (like a charger costing like some devices together with their chargers), but that’s pretty open and honest. “We sell you that for our humongous price, we say it’s miraculous and magically cool, and it seems like a scam, but you can say no”. While with Google and Meta and such they first sell you something looking normal, and then farm and abuse you indefinitely.

  So I’d wish for Apple to survive the bubble bursting (for which I hope they don’t go the AI way) and become a more general-kind computing company. Maybe hold closer to 50% of personal computing in the world, not the luxury niche they are holding now.

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  • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.

    Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android.

      Symbian and Maemo were better.

      Also Nokia was the only non-US company of these.

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      • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.

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• 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They are slowly taking it away with attestation though.

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• hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve been using an iPhone for the past 6 months or so, an older iPhone 12 Pro my wife used until she upgraded to the 16 Pro. I can’t say too many bad things about the is itself, since it feels like a walled garden android and the software quality is actually worse on IPhone, but it might be the aging chip on it.

  I can’t wait to go back to Android!

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