Don't like Apple's anti consumer attitude, same reason I don't buy Nintendo products.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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@Cameri what has been said.
Plus the price. Really.
My current phone costed me less than 200$ and I got it from a seller that likes to inflate the prices.
It's got everything I need:
- Stock Android
- 128 GB of storage (and a slot for an SD card)
- 4 GB of RAM
- A headphone jack
- Triple camera (which does suck at times tho, but I do have a DSLR as well whenever I need something better. And no, the phone camera doesn't suck at night tho).
I can use my phone the way i wanted, not what Apple wants 😁
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NewPipe, and Firefox Browser with uBlock Origin installed
That's it.
Sideloading of apps, Pixel features and having an always accessible back button/gesture
I had to use an iPad for something yesterday for the first time in a long time and truly have never appreciated the back button bring omnipresent on screen more in android
I used to be into custom ROMs back in the day so that was my excuse that I didn't want a corporate experience. But that was over a decade ago and all of those community features have now been pulled into the main AOSP. So now the only good reason is because it's the only smartphone OS I've ever owned or used really.
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I used android for 12 years, and after I couldn’t find a flagship phone with an SD card slot I figured I’d try an iPhone because why not. That was 10 months ago and I’m still using it. Things I really miss and prefer about android:
-Customizability: being able to change whatever I wanted was great. I loved spending hours customizing launchers and how everything worked.
-File system: God do I hate iOS and how file management works on iPhones. It’s so unintuitive and dumb. To put videos on my iPad through VLC I have to download the app, then put the files in the app on a computer with iTunes or a Mac, then sync it. Drag and drop for music management was great too.
-USB C: no explanation needed
-Sideloading apps: I used this quite a bit more than I thought and it was definitely something to get used to, to not be able to easily do that without jailbreaking or whatnot.
-YouTube Vanced/emulation: I hate ads and like games
-Keyboards: the iOS keyboard is dogshit. The 3rd party ones are also dogshit, even though somehow the same ones on android were great
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The customization, just being able to place icons anywhere on a screen without having to fill from top to bottom. Seems so simple and yet you just don't have the option on Apple. Just an example, but its that over and over again
Wait – you can't adjust icon placement on iPhone?
As far as I'm aware, you have to fill from the top down. I've seen some work arounds with 'ghost' apps to fill the space, but yeah
I prefer Android because we all do not have much choice. Once I preferred Symbian, it was an inconvenient system for advertising salesmen, then there was Windows mobile, I liked it too, but it died quickly. I like the pushbutton phones with proprietary firmware the most, but unfortunately these days it's hard to live without mobile apps.