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.
All this, plus the UI is outdated. It looks like it’s from the 1990s.
He asks, in a FOSS community.
I dislike being locked in to an ecosystem, no matter how pretty it is.
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.
What’s stopping you from switching to iPhone?
My lack of desire to switch to iPhone.
I don’t like paying more for less, and I am devoutly opposed to the Apple design aesthetic.
How do you do that with your display name?
On topic, I agree. My wife has an iphone and I really don’t enjoy the ux at all.
Yeah
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.
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inability to unlock bootloader and run custom rom
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not having enough money to buy iPhone
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why is this post getting downvoted?
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.
“You obviously should switch to iPhone so why don’t you?”
Ahh now I see.
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.
It would be hilarious if the OP was the same person 🤣.
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I don’t want to switch to something that costs more and that I like less?
Sideloading apps, tons more choices (price range, design, manufacturer, specs), ‘more’ control, used to Android environment
This is the biggest reason for me. Though I rarely look further than F-Droid for anything.
I don’t really pay attention to apple news but didn’t the EU force them to allow sideloading a little bit after the whole usbc thing
Until that happened, I’ll hold on my doubts
to preface what might sound like slander, I really would love to get my hands on apple hardware. It is engineered rather well and the geek in me can appreciate that. However, getting access to your own hardware is an issue.
While I have some concerns about their objective features, to my shame, the greatest problem is with the brand and their practices.
I think the root cause of all my issues stems from their morals and aggressive/elitist business practice - specifically their quest to squeeze money out of users and hide behind the lie of “we are doing this for the user’s benefit”.
I have no issue paying money for features I want or entities I’d like to support. In fact, I’m more inclined to financially support those who I believe in.
And apple loves to gatekeep features and keep them exclusive to apple. They effectively benefit from hard work of others who contribute to open standards and services, but at the same time do not share their own. Greedy.
Fuck Apple
Nothing except the fact that I have absolutely no desire to use an iPhone or, indeed, any Apple products at all.
It’s Fisher Price, it does not let me do poweruser things.
custom roms, launchers, sideloading, rooting
Agreed. Too much there to give up!
I won’t buy Apple hardware as long as they keep being absolute dicks in the tech and app world. It’s a shame really, because they build awesome devices, but I would feel bad everytime I use them.
Also they are much more restricted in many aspects (e.g. sideloading!), so it would be a downgrade for me.
