I’d argue they have better hardware. I’d love to have an iPhone running stock Android.
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tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Man, they’re seething against the EU, totally pissed that the legislators worked against their abuse over developers and rubbed against their cash cow.
Apple is all about money and fucking the user, being no different from Meta or Google. All they have is shinier hardware.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 11 months ago
olutukko@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean the og comment literally said “all they have is shinier hardware”
Lesrid@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just read it wrong since Google was mentioned right before the start of the final sentence
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Costs a fortune, hard to repair, no SD slot, no headphone jack, until recently could not be used with the chargers you have for everything else… At least for me it is a “no”.
itsJoelle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That would be the dream :)
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Apple is scary because they succeeded at creating a sect by frontal assault, so to say.
Google did that very subtly and precisely in the 00s, and like a decade ago firmly diverted to the MS way.
MS didn’t go in the cult direction, they slowly and steadily capitalized on their monopolistic power with moderation and modesty.
While Apple almost from the beginning just shat on everybody and everybody asked for more. They even took the counterculture niche partially in the 90s and 00s. And for clueless people it’s still them.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
What about privacy though? Google runs an ad network, so clearly they have financial incentive to spy hard.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So does Apple, the difference being the grabbed it all to themselves. This is why they have “no tracking” options, to seal competition off while selling themselves as the privacy champions and also selling their in house ad solution. That and the fact that the worked with the government behind users back, and having a shoddy work to secure their OS.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-56995192
vox.com/…/apple-app-tracking-transparency-privacy…
arstechnica.com/…/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving…
rikudou@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Much worse than Google IMO, at least when it comes to try fucking with rules made by EU. Google usually tries to appeal legally and if it doesn’t work out, they do what they must. This Apple bulshittery with 3rd party app stores is a new one. Someone here in this thread said that the worst EU can do to companies breaking DMA is forcing them to sell the division. I would love for Apple to push EU that far.
menemen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Companies working against technical standards are basically working against society.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But but but muh innovation! Standards ruin that! /s