My dealbreakers:
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No proper file management on iPhones.
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No sideloading allowed on iPhones.
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No playing back local music files without doing the cumbersome syncing through iTunes on iPhones.
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No headphone jack, no MicroSD slot, huge storage markups on iPhones.
I love my iPhone BUT I would LOVE to be able to drag and drop FLACs and MP3s to it… the only reason I have iTunes is for the zero effort full image backup…. But I also hafta use it to put my music on my phone. D:
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Firefox with ublock and a normal engine
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Newpipe for downloading stuff off YT
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OSMand for offline navigation
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f-droid for foss software
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Rethink to carefully ban everything that doesn’t need internet from connecting
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a phone with a nice amoled screen and all-day quickcharging battery that costs 180€ (motorola g52)
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not one ad anywhere
a better question is, why would I want anything else? An iphone seems like a sharp downgrade.
Just fyi: OSMand is available on iOS.
I know, and the last time I saw it it was just complete buggy shit with a different UI and nowhere near feature parity.
It continues to be buggy shit. I tried switching from Google Maps to OSMAnd on iOS and didn’t last a week
not one ad anywhere
iPhone doesn’t have ads
If you go to a website in a browser it has ads, yeah?
Cuz FF with ublock origin prevents that on Android but i don’t believe that’s an option on iPhone
we have AdGuard that works just as well
Oh, in safari?
Yup
Neat, I had no idea it allows that now
I’m an iPhone beetch but I DEFINITELY would be so happy to have uBlock. There’s some stuff like AdGuard and Wipr but uBlock Origin is undefeated.
Wipr is also dope! I think AdGuard works better, though.
The web does without ublock origin.
Ublock origin isn’t the only adblocker, duh
I know that and you can keep the others. Take also the new chrome version of ublock origin for manifest v3
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- proper adblocking with AdAway
- ability to patch official apps to remove ads and improve the usability with ReVanced
- being able to root the device and use HttpToolkit to analyze the data that flows from apps to the web
- extensive customization (I can choose my own launcher and keyboard application)
- proper file management, especially with Total Commander
- watching Dolby Vision .mkv files with mpv
- price (iPhones are all way too expensive)
- Apple’s stance against repairability
And this point is more hardware-related, but I’ve started to really love my Nothing Phone and its LED lights on the back, which produces amazing photos because the light is much softer than the small flash used by other phones. There isn’t a single Apple device with a feature like this. You could probably get a case, but it’s nice to have this integrated into the phone.
This guy phones
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.
Apple and I have very different notions of what it means to own something.
Apple’s walled garden is anti-consumer, anti-developer, and pretty much anti-everyone-but-apple.
It just doesn’t make sense to me to use or develop for Apple under those conditions.
A central nervous system
The OS
Why would I pay more than 3 times more for a Brick, that gives me less freedom to do what I want and doesn’t have app support and features I require.
I’m a developer and android is more friendly to developers, i have more control over my device. I can use any browser without being stuck with Safari. If i don’t like my phone i can choose from many more manufacturers without losing my apps and subscriptions.
I think most of all i have problem with Apples culture, their smugness and acting like they invented everything. I don’t think I’m their target audience.
I wouldn’t buy a car that could only drive on roads approved by the maker, so same goes for phone.
The phones being worse than the ones I prefer to use.
Like, they’re objectively less functional devices. I can’t pretend the features drops for every new model/OS aren’t just things android has has for years.
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Actually being the owner of my phone. Apple decides everything for their users and allows them little freedom. I want to be able to put random apps on my phone, including maybe even my own.
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Price. Shit’s expensive. I now got a Pixel 8 for less than 500 euro’s. Before that I had phones around the 300 euro price range.
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Their ecosystem. They try to lure you into an everything Apple ecosystem. Stuff like iMessage is horrible for consumers. With an Android phone I have choice of apps, smart watch, earbuds, etc. Apple will always try to force you into buying their fancy but expensive things.
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No benefit, there’s plenty of cool Android phones.
Etc etc.
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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.
The back button being top left still baffles me to this day. Let’s put it in the most hard to reach spot.
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.
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?
The first thing I do on any new android is disable gesture navigation.
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.
I had an ipad pro and it was an awful experience for me. Lack of customizations I deem normal, lack of real choice, limitations at every step. The walled garden felt hostile to me, the user. I sold it and got a Samsung tablet instead and it’s been perfect. The only thing missing is procreate, but I have alternatives that do 99% of what I wanted.
