This is one of the shitposts of all time.
It’s a literal shit post
Exclusive too
No, you have to pay extra for that
I’m surprised you could afford it, bro.
But is it exclusive? I won’t upvote otherwise.
Android User here. Never owned any Apple device.
But they’re fucking good quality. Anyone can see that. So what’s the problem?
I like Android 'cos I like dicking about with it. Some people don’t want to dick about with their phones, they want to do other stuff that could be more interesting.
I have tried an iphone a google pixel is way better built or pretty much any other similarly priced android.
I think the problems include the fact that an actual apple computer starts at 1000 and going higher than 8GB of RAM and 256G of storage costs you another 1000 because hardware isn’t really modular and storage and ram are a huge tool of market segmentation.
Meanwhile a traditional desktop starts at $7000.
It’s like they have lifted everything but the absolutely cheapest market segments out of reach of virtually any normal folks.
going higher than 8GB of RAM and 256G of storage costs you another 1000
These are the things i look at when reviewers talk about apple “taking gaming serious now” and im just like what.
As someone who does animation, apple has been terrible for work. Because they take forever to render CGI, compared to my personal gaming computer. Same thing with simple video editing. Having a powerful GPU is pretty nice for work. And because apple is overpriced. I’ve found gaming rigs that are cheaper and do a better job, on top of being more intuitive. Seriously I can’t do anything without the windows search bar. It’s really nice being able to just type in the settings I want to change. And have the OS take me directly there.
I carry 2 phones because I have a government job, so if any work is done on my phone it becomes subject to Open Records requests. If I have to carry 2 phones I might as well have both operating systems.
So my personal phone is Android and my work phone is an iPhone.
I don’t understand how people prefer iPhones. The hardware is nice, but the OS is horrible. They came up with some neat stuff in 2008, but it feels like they haven’t improved much since then. Even informing the greater flexibility of Android - it’s just easier to use. Hell, just turning wifi or Bluetooth on and off is a hassle on the iPhone versus a single swipe and tap on Android.
Hell, just turning wifi or Bluetooth on and off is a hassle on the iPhone versus a single swipe and tap on Android.
What on earth are you talking about? I’m not going to claim Apple invented it (because they likely stole it from another os like android) but they’ve had the single swipe down control panel on iOS to turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, etc for like a decade+. I have Apple devices, and trust me, there’s plenty to shit on without making stuff up.
What he’s talking about is probably that turning off WiFi via quick settings or whatever it’s called doesn’t actually turn off WiFi, you still have to proceed all the way to the settings app.
I owned and used a iPhone xs for a number of years. I can assure you that pressing the little WiFi icon in the control centre does the same thing as my Samsung galaxy s21 5g and various other android devices previous to the iPhone xs does and if all fails then you can always turn on airplane mode
That may be true, I used to be an iPhone Xs user before my Pixel 7, and it used to drive me crazy seeing blue WiFi icon turning white, as opposed to turning the module off completely in the settings, when the icon becomes transparent.
It is nitpicking though, for sure. I have tons of other, more significant complaints about iOS, I was just clarifying what it may have been that the other person was complaining about.
Edit: Moreover, until you deliberately tell your phone to NOT automatically turn on WiFi after an hour or two, it will decide for itself that the time has come and it can drain your battery now.
Turning off WiFi is as easy as gesturing to the control centre then clicking the WiFi button it’s as easy as android devices where you swipe down from where the notch is and click on the WiFi button
Except when I swipe down and it opens the notification window or Siri shortcuts or just a blank screen with a clock on it.
It’s not consistent.
I used an iPhone xs for about a year and a half before clumsily dropping my phone and it sadly coming to its demise and I’ve never had this happen to me. Prehaps I’m lucky. Although knowing lemmy someone probably just made this shit up
Nailed it. My thoughts exactly
Apple has that break the lense on a camera and your phone starts to brick it’s self as it thinks it’s been repaired by someone who’s not apple
Idk every apple product I’ve touched always felt pretty thin and flimsy. Don’t even get me started on Mac mice. They’re so cheaply made you don’t get a second mouse button. The Mac books are so fragile you can break them by looking at them wrong. The only time I’ve ever seen a iPhone that doesn’t have a crack in the screen is when they are brand new. Maybe I’m a bit of a farmer for considering rigidity the definition of high quality, but god how do one button mice feel good.
High quality until you drop it once and the entire screen shatters. High quality until your lightning cable breaks. High quality until planned obsolescence renders it unusable. Nah Apple products are pure ass lmao, literally no reason to ever buy one unless it’s got some exclusive artsy software you really like (and even then there’s prob something just as good for windows or Linux). As far as bang for your buck goes I can’t think of a worse choice than Apple in any given field
I tried Android with the S10 for a little over a year. It felt too clunky and everything I wanted to customize would have required jailbreaking, which feels too much like work for me. I went back to iPhone after that.
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Wow it’s true. Linux users are like vegans. You never have to wonder because they’ll tell you they are whether you care or not
I use to main Linux. Mint once prehaps will again once I upgrade my shitty graphics card to something which supports ubuntu based distros better. I tend to agree with you on this point although there are plenty of decent people whom use linux. People whom are always happy to give out a helping hand or are welcoming.
Galaxy Brain: triple boot hackintosh.
Best of all worlds
If I was a real sadist, I’d try to get TempleOS and AmigaOS running. I don’t go to LAN parties anymore, so I wouldn’t get to scare the normies with that.
I see a fellow cultured gentlemen templeos for the win screw pcmr when you got templeos and gods chosen games
Are you all 12? Why do people care what technology someone else prefers to use?
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What the fuck are you even talking about? You’re not some freedom fighter out in Fallujah. You’re in an online circle jerk about which shiny toy is better. Get a grip.
Fuck you & blocked you, moron
SOCITRY GUYZ SO TRUE BESTIE
Your choice of operating system. does not have a deep impact on society. It doesn’t impact society at all
4% of women polled in the US said that sending green texts was a red flag.
We mostly show pride in how pretty we can make our desktop look
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So what you’re saying is that low level workers are socialised to feel like lesser (even though the pandemic really proved who actually matters in the scheme of the whole job system) and also feel trapped by the design of the employment system, under capitalism and angrily try to take some ground back by having just one nice thing, bought with the feeling of pride, but are actually accidentally buying into the system that oppresses them.
Yes. Pride in materialism is a horrible vice to fall for.
I wish people didn’t care what technology other people choose to buy.
Bluechecks
The only thing that is shit about iPhones besides the price is ENROLLING THEM IN FUCKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Verizon, answer my fucking requests for auto enrollment. Fuck Apple Configurator 2.
You’re voluntarily using DEP in ABM, it’s not forced on you by Apple. What you’re complaining about is only tangentially related to Apple and unrelated to this post. Imagine complaining about a thing that keeps you employed.
How is it voluntary? From what I read I need to use DEP and ABM to put apple products into things like an MDM unless the carrier I’m purchasing from approves some sort of auto enrollment form.
And I have plenty to do at my work place without enrolling iphones into mdms
Any company that lets me take control of my hardware and software is welcome to me
Yeah not Apple. They limit you to their ecosystem while Android lets you do literally whatever the fuck you want. Don’t want to pay for an app in the app store? Then don’t. Don’t want to use the default home screen environment? Then change it. I could go on but I mean it’s pretty obvious at this point.
Yep. I’ve been an Android girl since the beginning. The only Apple product I ever had was a free iPad my husband’s job gave us because they were pushing Apple products on everyone because that’s how they spy on everyone. Oh but Android spies on us too but at least we have all the benefits you mentioned above.
And technically there are ways (using some of the above mentioned stuff) to turn off those kinds of security and spyware stuff while Apple is known for buttons that say things like “stop tracking data” or similar that do literally nothing.
I assumed this was about Twitter blue checks, I think I prefer that interpretation.
It can be about most premium services nowadays thanks to enshittification.
I want to break free off APPLE and I can’t because I love this app called CLIPS.
It’s a video editing app that allows me to hold down the button and take a few seconds of video. Lift finger, video stops recording. Hold button down again and the next clip connects to previous. And so on. Also a ton of great filters.
Addicted to it.
Please show me the android alternative.
Not kidding. I can stop being a shit eater for this.
Don’t most camera apps have a pause button you can use while filming that gives the same result? Or am I missing something?
Samsungs have this built in natively. Press record. Press pause to pause. Press record for more. Press stop to finish.
If you want the exact UX, then I dunno.
I just checked and my Pixel 7 Pro has it too.
Vastly superior to Apple UX — must be why they invented this CLIPS app
https://alternativeto.net/software/shotcut/about/
Maybe? I dunno, I’ve never used either.
Not listed on Fdroid yet :(
using that website without JS was definitely a surprise lol
It’s not available for android sadly
Well I’m a dick lol my bad.
I shall give it a try.
What? You mean iPhones can’t pause while recording a video and then continue recording… or is there some other utility I’m missing about this Clips app?
Clips app is pretty fancy. I’ve only really used it for this functionality and haven’t seen anything that does what it does.
snapchat director mode?
Do you know if it allows downloading to my camera roll and uploading to anywhere but Snapchat?
i for sure have downloaded content from snapchat to my camera roll before and uploaded elsewhere… but i don’t use it much so i can’t say this 100% but i believe you can
Haha le apple bad
The “omg I haet Apple guys” cult is much stronger than the supposed “wow I love Apple” cult.
Meanwhile on Reddit /r/apple regularly makes frontpage and /r/technology /r/gadgets only make frontpage if it’s related to apple. And windows and Microsoft news is barely ever relevant
Makes sense as iPhones beat Android in market share in the US, and there is only one manufacturer compared to half a dozen for Android phones. I just think the “omg apple worshipping fanboy” thing is a bit outdated. Most people don’t care that much.
Coming from Windows for decades, my M1 Mac is the most stable, battery sipping machine I’ve ever had. Shrug…
People who smoke.
I am a kind of laptop addict. I sell and purchase laptops every 6 months or so. I’ve tried everything on the Windows side, and have had the most beautiful machines in my possession, but they all had some critical flaw that made me look at my work laptop (Macbook Pro M1) and think… “I get it”
They currently have a monopoly on the best computing experience, that’s why it costs so much. The developer experience is 10 times better than Windows, but it’s doesn’t suffer the lack of software support that Linux does. It has the best battery life BY FAR of any laptop, which is important to people like myself who find themselves working on trains and planes. And the overall build quality and performance is so good that it can be resold 5 years later for 75% of the original price.
This has to be some kind of joke, right? I have an M1 macbook through my job and it is absolutely horrible. For starters, the file system is absolutely horrible and “dumbed down” and requires you to learn special button-combinations to even find files, the UI in general is “form over function” times 100, and ooooh the horror of not having snappable windows. Also the fan is horribly loud and is often at 100% due to the terrible thermals. Sounds like a jet engine.
I’ve had it for over 2 years now and use it daily but it still feels like I have to battle and force it to be able to do what I want. The trackpad is nice though!
- I have not heard the fans once in over a year of heavy use, I’m starting to doubt they exist. Fan noise is a far more prevalent issue with Windows machines so I’m very curious to know how you’ve managed to convince the fans to spin up at all, let alone at a high volume.
- No window snapping is a glaring omission, but easily resolved with a 3rd party app.
- Fortunately as a programmer I hardly use Finder, but yes it’s not very intuitive.
I could list fifty problems each with Windows, Mac OS and Linux, but am comfortable enough with all of them because I adapt to their weaknesses (the ones that can be adapted to anyways).
Also a programmer :) I still wanna be able to actually browse my file system with a GUI at times. I don’t think “oh but you could just use the terminal” is an acceptable solution to such a monumental part of an OS
Dunno how you manage that with the fans. Everyone where I work has the same complaint. It was even worse at my old job that used the intel macbook pros that were before the m1, the fan was even louder and would always stick to 100% after a while, like it couldn’t adjust itself and just ran at full speed. We couldn’t really solve it either.
Anyways, the os is just way to clunky and developer-unfriendly for me. We’re actively trying to get new laptops so that we can finally ditch these macbooks. Maybe if we were frontend-only they would be more suitable?
