• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    702·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    38·
    5 months ago

    • 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.

  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    381·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
      191·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml
      3·
      5 months ago

      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?

        • Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml
          31·
          5 months ago

          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.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.ee
    301·
    5 months ago

    I wouldn’t buy a car that could only drive on roads approved by the maker, so same goes for phone.

  • BrerChicken @lemmy.world
    25·
    5 months ago

    Paying 20% - 40% more for dumbed-down OS that limits what software I can use. I mean literally any one of those alone is a deal breaker. It was never gonna work.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    151·
    5 months ago

    Much like many of the iPhone users when you asked the converse question, it’s not so much that something is stopping me, but that I have no interest in it. I don’t see any benefits that I care about, and it would cost time and money to switch.

    Let’s pretend for a moment that I did have some desire to switch, perhaps due to some new hardware from Apple or changes to Android I found unpalatable. Here are some things I’d consider major barriers:

    • Sideloading - I want to install stuff without permission from the hardware or OS vendor. Maybe I’ll even write a niche app without asking permission.
    • Administrative access - I have root on my Android phone, and I didn’t have to fight it to gain root (I know that’s not true of every device). If I don’t have root or can’t get it easily, it’s not really mine.

    That’s… basically it, but those are big things and Apple’s position on them is so opposite mine that they’re risking severe sanctions from the EU to comply with the EU’s sideloading regulations in the most useless way they can.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    151·
    5 months ago

    I don’t like Apples attitude. And I want control of my own phone, not just whatever crumbs Apple will allow me.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    File level access to files. I would love to have the option of moving files in folders and connecting it to a PC to drag and drop files.

    True multi tasking.

    Ability to install apps from other sources.