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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any form of Android compatibility must be maximally enshittified to encourage switching -- see iMessage. Unless of course it generates revenue for Apple -- see Apple Music. Not being stalked/murdered using Air Tags does not generate revenue for Apple: next time buy an iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Including the most basic task of plugging in an Android phone to access files on MacOS. It just works on Linux or Windows, but with MacOS I had to go the extra step of having to download and install Android File Transfer. And then wasn't even able to preview pics from the phone storage and had to move the files to the PC.

Apple probably wants people to go I should get an iPhone. But, given the experience of how it just works on Windows and Linux my thought was wow Apple is shit at compatability with everything that isn't Apple.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people aren’t plugging their phones into their computers. I’m an IT guy and I’ve never plugged my iPhones into my pc, nor the last 5+ android phones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay. Good for you. But that wasn't my complaint. It's that it just works on Windows or Linux.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My point is that plugging your iPhone into a computer isn’t something most people do so it’s not prioritised as being important.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Okay? I wasn't asking about other people, but expressing something I expected to be a basic function. And it was an Android phone I was talking about not an iPhone.

The comment chain talking was discussing how Apple will make things slightly less functional for products that aren't Apple. Not an inquiry about how others use Apple products.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Google do it to some as well so they’re just playing the same game.

See Picture in Picture - it’s an OS level greater yet google went out of their way to disable it for YouTube so they could sell it to you via YouTube premium.