• kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    Why should I downgrade?

    Apple’s stuff is:

    • Locked down hard, meaning you get completely vendor-locked-in, and you can’t install alternative OS (there is none I think) or even apps from different sources without voiding warranty or using unsupported, unreliable hacks like jailbreaks for specific models.
    • Privacy-invading. Sure, not as bad as proprietary Android distros, but still far from privacy-respecting
    • Account-bound. Everything is tied to your Apple account. To even set up or use the product you need an account.
    • As proprietary and closed source as it gets
    • Ridiculously overpriced, so very low value for the money
    • The company is known for its anti-competitive and monopolistic, even mafia-style behavior (e.g. when insisting on their 30% cut for all apps, insisting that apps use the in-app-purchasing system and not allowing “subscriptions from outside of Apple’s ecosystem”, stuff like that. If app developers don’t comply with ridiculous rules, they get their apps taken down, and since the AppStore is the only source for apps, this means they have 100% control and can kill any app which they don’t like or which they perceive as competition for Apple’s own apps.

    Use GrapheneOS. It’s a secure, fully privacy-respecting open source distro of Android (based on the open source Android) without any Google services/apps by default, but with full Android app compatibility.

  • |💀|@lemmy.aerir.xyz
    25·
    1 year ago

    Sideloading apps, tons more choices (price range, design, manufacturer, specs), ‘more’ control, used to Android environment

  • Sphere@reddthat.com
    21·
    1 year ago

    Expensive and impossible to customise effectively, making it much poorer value than Android. Not that Android is perfect. The instant some form of non-proprietary Linux (like Debian w/phosh, PostmarketOS, etc.) becomes viable as a daily driver, Android is out as well.

    • remotelove@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ecosystems are fine as long as they aren’t fully locked and limited. That is super rare, I know.

      If common protocols are used so that interoperability can happen, that is OK. ZigBee and ZWave would be quick examples off the top of my head.

  • RocksForBrains@lemm.ee
    14·
    1 year ago

    I have an iPhone for work. The UI is unintuitive, unresponsive and restrictive. It’s like a child’s toy version of my s23. The fingerprint reader is useless, the screens color range is dull and the build quality is plastic trash. Plus my phones camera array beats the iPhone array to hell and back.

    The iPhone is the phone for old people, children or the infirm. Why would I limit myself?

    • Hhffggshn@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      My elderly mother has an iPhone. I call it her “jitterbug” phone (jitterbug is a phone with huge buttons for the elderly).

    • Big P@feddit.uk
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think an iPhone is objectively inferior. I think it is a good choice for some people.

      • andyMFK@reddthat.com
        5·
        1 year ago

        It definitely is a good choice for some people, I wouldn’t give my mother in law an Android device.

        But the iphone as a platform is inferior because it can do less (although Android is definitely headed in a similar direction)

  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
    14·
    1 year ago

    There’s no reason for me to switch. It would be going to a worse product in my opinion. I only use phones that can run lineageOS or another custom rom on it now, and have been doing so for the past 6 or so years.

  • MiloSquirrel@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    I like my phone, I have more control over it, I like that it’s not made in ways to punish me for fixing it, I don’t trust Apple, and it cost 300$ instead of costing more than my current car

  • Reclipse@lemdro.id
    12·
    1 year ago

    • inability to unlock bootloader and run custom rom

    • not having enough money to buy iPhone

    • why is this post getting downvoted?

    • Wreckronomicon@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      12·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s being down voted because of the way it is phrased, it comes across as “You obviously should switch to iPhone so why don’t you?”

      I don’t want to switch because I find iPhones and the UI to be bland and boring, the ecosystem is too locked down and there’s little to no customisation. Plus there is a lot of snobbery around apple products and that doesn’t sit well with me.

        • jossbo@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          Also this is the second similar post I’ve seen recently. I think heblast one was, “iPhone users, why do you love your iPhone more than Android?” Or something. Made me suspicious of it being an ad. At the very least, I didn’t think a second thread was needed.