Imo, the Android experience is far better than iOS. I have no love for either Google or Apple, but I would rather use a slower older Android phone over any iPhone.
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
And their flagship costs more than the iPhone 17 Pro but has performance closer to the iPhone 11 and they still sell your data off the back end.
Android was a fine alternative to iOS for a minute… like in 2012 with the Galaxy S3 and Jellybean. Now? I don’t get it. You pay more, you get less, all because — what? Gmail was once cool?
They took your headphone jack. They took your memory card slot. They took your back button. (Anyone remember the menu button?) Now they’re taking sideloading.
What is even the point of Android? It isn’t freedom. I see it as capitulation to Big Data.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Are you high?
BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
A little, but that’s not a factor in this opinion. I think iOS is awful to use.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I don’t disagree but android was already clunky, with less integration across devices (for better or worse), and now you can’t even sideload. What advantages does it have left?
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
And all those things were “taken” because they followed apple’s lead who took all those things first. Losing sideload capability is yet another fallow the leader act they’re doing to be like apple.
As for more expensive, disagree there. That’s only the case if you go with high end sansung phones, but you can get android phones for much cheaper with still decent hardware, and it (currently) can do all the things apple does. You cant buy a cheaper apple 17 then the 2 models they give you. Also the hardware differences are so minor between Samsung and Apple, its laughable to call one “better” so your ppst really comes off like a fanboy talking about something you dont understand.
MrSmith@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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Cost. You can get performant brand new phones for $200 that will last you 2+ years
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OS-wide adblock. I cannot comprehend how iOS users live with out it. I see my GF using her phone and every other scroll of something is an add.
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Some other sailing-of-the-seas things that I’m not comfortable posting online about, but it saves me a lot of money on subscriptions from big corporations.
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HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 hours ago
They took your headphone jack.
Are we talking the nubulous They, the royal They, or do you mean "Android took your headphone jack?" Because uhh,
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 47 minutes ago
google largely gave up on the pixel phones, in terms of development since pixel 5, now its just all AI invesment into to all those phones since, with slightly better features, to keep the fans happy.