121 points

Apple. I want nothing to do with a closed ecosystem and I loathe how central AppleID is to absolutely everything.

I have fdroid and a few custom apks that wouldn’t be available on their store, so those would be hooped as well.

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Apple and I have very different notions of what it means to own something.

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Honestly, just navigating the phone is a giant pain in the ass. I bought my wife an iPad and finding basic settings or locating an app is a nightmare. Any time she needs help with it I feel like I’m pulling teeth.

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This is part of it for me. Apple decides how a device should be used and you have to learn a new “intuitive” interface that is unlike every other computer device.

They have streamlined everything to the point that you can’t deviate from their use flow and it drives me insane trying to do a task in an alternative way from how they envision it being done.

Android is like using a computer, IOS is like using a computer of you have never used one.

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10 points

The back button being top left still baffles me to this day. Let’s put it in the most hard to reach spot.

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I don’t really get this. As an android user since 2009 and the evolution of android os I am now for the last year an iOS user, and the interface is the same as it was for me and my last phone. Swipe up to get to the Home Screen, long hold to see tabs running and swipe from the left to center to go back. Is this because my last phone was an LG?

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6 points

The first thing I do on any new android is disable gesture navigation.

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Ah ok. I honestly hate how much I love my iPhone. Its my wife’s late mothers phone and I took it kind of as a gag so I could FaceTime my family and then I figured I would go back to my LG. But damn i get day and a half to 2 days of battery life and the pictures are way better. The iOS lets me hide all my apps which is something I always hated about iPhones and there are widgets. If I could only disable the photos and maps app this phone would be mint.

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  • Firefox with ublock and a normal engine

  • Newpipe for downloading stuff off YT

  • OSMand for offline navigation

  • f-droid for foss software

  • Rethink to carefully ban everything that doesn’t need internet from connecting

  • a phone with a nice amoled screen and all-day quickcharging battery that costs 180€ (motorola g52)

  • not one ad anywhere

a better question is, why would I want anything else? An iphone seems like a sharp downgrade.

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Just fyi: OSMand is available on iOS.

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I know, and the last time I saw it it was just complete buggy shit with a different UI and nowhere near feature parity.

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It continues to be buggy shit. I tried switching from Google Maps to OSMAnd on iOS and didn’t last a week

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not one ad anywhere

iPhone doesn’t have ads

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9 points

If you go to a website in a browser it has ads, yeah?

Cuz FF with ublock origin prevents that on Android but i don’t believe that’s an option on iPhone

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we have AdGuard that works just as well

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3 points

The web does without ublock origin.

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Ublock origin isn’t the only adblocker, duh

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