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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.

But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Google doesn’t have vision or taste in my opinion. They released a million messaging apps and STILL haven’t made a decent one. Its been how many years and they still use SMS on most androids and people have to rely on whatsapp, a Fcaebook app… now they’re releasing their new “standard” RCS which has competing versions some with end to end encryption by default and some without.

They STILL don’t have a FaceTime alternative unless you use whatsapp…

Google knows how to show ads and everything else has so little passion and vision i dont trust any of their services because they love to kill their products

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

I don't even use any Apple products, but I still gotta agree with all this.

How they didn't do an iMessage style client better than Apple given the fact Hangouts was right there and superior in every way for so long is just.... bleh.

Google is losing it. Android is losing more nerd functionality and just copying iOS... but poorly. YouTube Music was better as Google Play Music. "Chats" was better as Hangouts. Where Google Fi at? Where Google Fibre gone? How's Google+ going?

Even their search results are mostly spam now.

-- Sent from my Pixel

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

Enshitification

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

This isn't even enshittification, this is just Google still not having their shit together somehow after all these years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand the "taste" argument, but personally the goal of not having a corporation man-in-the-middle everything I do takes priority. I degoogle my phone to the best of my ability.

Unfortunately, good vision and design takes funding, and there's not a lot of money to be made from not taking advantage of users.

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

Apple’s hardware sales are about 70% of revenue, whereas Google’s are more like 10%. That’s a lot of funding that doesn’t have to come from user data.

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

Harvesting user data is a symptom, mitm and taking advantage of users is the root of the problem.

Saying they don't profit much from your data is like saying, "they only kick you in the nuts a little bit."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My counterpoint is that you have to use WhatsApp (I rather use Signal) because iMessage is Apple only. SMS and RCS are stupid. With Signal you can reach users of all devices. Having a messaging protocol that depends on the device used is stupid. And hopefully the EU can end the vendor lock in with messaging apps as well.

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

Another vote for signal

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other than blue bubbles,

I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green,

I'm far enough removed from iPhones that I don't know what this means :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think messages from other iphones show up as green, with messages from android phones showing up as blue. No clue how this interacts with group chats.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OS updates. It’s frustrating to buy a top of the line android phone just for it to be forgotten by the manufacturer in 6-8 months.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This right here. Lifelong Android user that switched to the iPhone 14 and never looked back.

Edit: iPhone 13, not 14, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My problem with Apple is that everything's designed to interoperate with other Apple stuff, and nothing else. It feels like a walled garden that doesn't just keep users in, but also keeps those of us out who might want to try a single Apple device without spending many thousands replacing our entire ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally causing people to get bullied into getting an iphone over stupid chat bubble colors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which gets even stupider when you realize apple is being stubborn and that is causing the issue

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

Absolutely, Apple is being resistant to RCS not because they think iMessage is superior but because they know it weakens their lock in power. I know I’m stating the obvious, but it just annoys me so much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pixels give you 5 years now same as iphone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iPhone gets you more like 10 years of security updates

https://www.makeuseof.com/apple-security-updates-for-10-year-old-devices/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My iPad from 2015 is still getting all the updates. It's wild.

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

Yeah I think iPad's are clearly better than any android tablet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like android and have a couple android devices (mostly retro handhelds and CCTV, and have spun up a few VMs), I also have many devices with linux (unraid, pihole, vpn servers, web servers) and run a pfsense firewall (FreeBSD), AND my gaming PC is windows...

I say all that because when it comes to mobile devices, however, I am all in pretty much on apple. Phone, watch, Pro 2s, and Ipad mini go with me pretty much every where. Why? not really the app eco-system (because I do so much self-hosting and use a lot of PWAs, and I dont play games on my phone), its the inter-operability between all the devices, its the find my device, Its the earpods going from my ipad to my iphone in an instant, Its the battery life, its (for the most part) security of the devices.

The blue/green bubble thing is weird and I don't understand why people get so upset over it. I use everything, and to be honest the only thing at this point in my life I would like to get rid of is windows, but I can't yet because of gaming.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If not for gaming, I would run Linux. Linux on gaming just isn't on par yet.

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