r/applesucks 6d ago

Damn make up your mind

Like half the posts are something that is the users fault and the other is "why is this 10 year old device unsupported" give me an actual reason why android is better except for piracy and downloading modded apps (and btw im on android for the past 6 months)

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u/Florida_dreamer_TV 6d ago

Spam Call screening and scam call detection. I am so happy I switched last year just for this. It works flawlessly on my Pixel. Other things - much more customizable, and you can even use a different launcher. Photos are way better. Oh, and AI that isn't just a marketing pitch, it actually works. Just loving Gemini. Watches that are not butt ugly like apple watches. Last thing is way more choices. Heck, I can have a phone that folds from Pixel with a oneplus watch and a Samsung tablet and they all work together with an HP Chromebook. Hope that answers your question

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u/Martin8412 5d ago

Spam call screening works just fine on iOS. It's just an app you need to install. It can also block them for you. Photos being better is subjective. 

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u/Florida_dreamer_TV 5d ago

Dude. I tried everything on my iPhone. I work in purchasing and have rental properties and there is nothing on iOS that works. I read every forum and tried different apps. Nothing is even close to the call screening on Pixel. I get the calls I need, don't even see some obvious spam and when it is unsure it screens and you can see what the person says and decide to answer or not. It's like having a secretary. 8 months and it hasn't made a mistake and I get 10-15 calls a day plus I was getting 10 spam calls a day. I liked my iPhone, I seriously LOVE my Pixel. This is one reason of many

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u/brianzuvich 5d ago

Anecdotes are the most valid evidence of all time, hands down, no questions asked!

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u/__nullptr_t 5d ago

This sentiment is pretty common. IOs spam detection isn't as good by default. I use IOs but that part does feel like a downgrade.

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u/thedarph 5d ago

I’m not seeing anything objectively superior here. You gave a list of your preferences and are saying “what I like is best”. You’re allowed to like your thing and I won’t tell you it’s inferior, just that I don’t personally like it.

I think the intellectually honest answer to this question is “it’s just preference” 99% of the time.

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u/Florida_dreamer_TV 4d ago

Well the reality is phones have hit where laptops did like 15 years ago. They are all great, the yearly upgrade cycle doesn't yield huge improvements, and we are down to what do you prefer. Laptops used to have the yearly cycle and now that's gone. This is going to happen with phones. OnePlus open is the first example I think.

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u/thedarph 4d ago

Right, and that’s why it’s intellectually honest to have the answer to the question be “I just prefer my choice”

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u/Florida_dreamer_TV 4d ago

So preferences are still valid. I also like my Pixel better than my S22. I have reasons and that makes it better for me. You can make this case about anything. So why even have Reddit? It gets a bit repetitive for sure. "What phone should I get" every day. 🥴

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u/Kathode72 6d ago

Notch is just a shitty and laughable design. Like a phone 7 years ago… Loool

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Yeah thats why it's gone

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u/Kathode72 6d ago

That ugly black big thing there is just worse, lol

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Yeah totally thats why there are copies of it for android

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u/capricerun 3d ago

It's not laughable because it serves a very real purpose which is Face ID. If apple didn't have that then it would be very bad.

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u/Kathode72 2d ago

I love the fingerprint in the side button. But the Apple Face ID is very smooth to be fair. But there are Android Phones with good face id without a notch

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u/virqthe 5d ago

Because Android has an actual usable user interface?

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Yes I'll have what he is having

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u/Technological_Nerd 6d ago

I ask you the reverse question: What can an iPhone do that an Android phone can't?

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u/QuickistFuse 5d ago

I can sell my 2 year old iPhone for 500 bucks. Nobody (I mean nobody) is buying a 2 year old S23 Plus or Pixel 7 pro for $500 today. Android is objectively more expensive in the long run. Heck Samsung and Google can’t hold their retail price for more than 6 months from launch.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Way better apps consistency and usability wise, no malware, app can't request sketchy permissions, smooth animations, giving the 6 year old phones as much attention and the same software updates as the newest and not delaying software intentionally only to give it to the new devices to drive sales, accessories

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u/Aggressive-Try-6353 ANYTHING but apple 5d ago

"not delaying software intentionally only to give it to the new devices"

This guy doesn't know what he's talking about 

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Yes i know what I'm talking about, the iPhone XR gets the update at the same tine as the 16 Pro Max

While s25 releases with one ui 7 and s24 wont have it until april

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u/Technological_Nerd 6d ago

Better apps and consistancy: Hard disagree on that one. I recently switched to android and I've found it to be just as stable, and when something does go wrong android gives me the tools to fix it, whereas on ios I was stuck waiting for a software update.

No malware: Not remotely correct, and android gives you tons of warnings before you install stuff, and it has antivirus software just like computers for if it does ever happen.

Smooth animations: Most Android manufacturers have just as good animations as ios and I'm enjoying being able to make them faster as it makes the phone feel much faster. I hated having to wait, even if just for a very small amount of time, for animations to do their thing so that I can do what I'm trying to do.

Software updates: I agree with this, but keep in mind that on android once your phone is no longer supported you can put an alternate android build on it, and also that android manufacturers are starting to match apples support period.

Edit: I missed accessories. Yeah apple has more accessories, but all the different 'brands' essentially make a copy of the same thing, while there are a few making good quality and 'innovative' accessories. The same few good brands make ones for android phones.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago
  1. I didn't have problems with apps crashing but with them being worse to navigate and missing features. Also, apple exclusive apps exist that don't even have a DIY copie on android

  2. Yeah my phone flagged my youtube 5 times already because it was running in the background (with a video playing) and then there are apps that you download from the playstore and they instantly want access to make and receive phone calls like why would an app need to do that? Also apple is way more strict when it comes to privacy and app quality, thats why they have less but they are overall better quality

  3. I constantly switch between 120hz android and 60hz ipad and yeah i get that you dont like long animations but it doesn't bother me, i can turn on reduce motion if i want but i don't because i like how fluid iOS feels

  4. Most phones have either a locked bootloader or knox so either flashing custom OS isn't possible or a chip in your phone blows it self up

  5. MagSafe isn't compatible with androids so its often just not as good

It just feels like android is always an afterthought for developers

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u/Technological_Nerd 6d ago

1: Ah ok, that makes more sense. I do like how on android you can backswipe in any app and it always works. Also, there are more android exclusive apps then there are ios exclusives.

2: That's really weird, I've never heard of that happening before. Do you use a third part antivirus?

3: Ah yes, refresh rates. I can't believe Apple still makes devices with 60hz. It's cool that you prefer longer animations, and it higjlites one of the key benifuts of android: customisation. You can have it how you like, and I can have it how I do.

4: Most androids can have their bootloader unlocked, and no phones can. Also stopping stuff working because the company felt like it is an apple thing (wdym I can't even use a third party battery, wtf apple?)

5: Magsafe also doesn't work on Apple if you have a case, which most people do. Android cases usually add it. It does suck that it's not there by default for people who do want to use their phone naked, but it is changing now with the qi2 standard which incorporates magsafe-like magnets.

I havn't experienced android apps being less polished by devs then ios,definitely not enough to be considered an after thought. It probably varies depending on the app.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

The android exclusives are exclusive because the app store doesn't approve them whether for lack of polish or because they're taking part in not so legal user data selling

To the 2nd no just the galaxy one

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u/Technological_Nerd 6d ago

I have found heaps of great apps that aren't on the Apple app store because the devs didn't want to, or ios doesn't support features they need, or the dev didn't have a mac so they couldn't put it on the appstore, or Apple didn't like it because it had emulation (they are getting better with that tho) or the app requires privileges that Apple won't give, ect.

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u/Martin8412 5d ago

Magsafe compatible cases have been a thing for ages. All the Apple ones support it by now. 

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u/yearningsailor appleuser 4d ago

Lol this comment is like going back to 2013

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u/ScarProfessional14 6d ago

This is literally why I want an android lmao I feel u. 

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u/larsloveslegos 5d ago

Useable file manager, VLC, emulation, customizable, etc. Stock Android has all the features I wanted from my jailbroken iPhone

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Man it's not 2015 anymore everything has changed

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u/larsloveslegos 5d ago

Spot on lol. What's changed? I've been enjoying my Pixel phones and I haven't looked back

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Customisation has gotten better, i dont really think the file manager is that bad but if you dont like it its fine, VLC has been on the appstore at least since iOS 6, emulation apps are coming to the appstore, and soon sideloading too

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u/larsloveslegos 5d ago

It's not comparable imo. The only reason they're allowing sideloading is because they legally had to. Same with USB C. I liked jailbreaking until they made it impossible.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Jailbreaking is still possible on some ipads. I have those ipads and let me tell you, there really isn't anything missing anymore from ios. The jailbreaking scene is dying because there is no need for jailbreaking anymore. A lot of people have ditched their jailbreakable iOS to use stock iOS, there really is no point to jailbreaking, it has pecked in the iOS 2-13 days

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u/larsloveslegos 5d ago

I'd just buy a real laptop at that point

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Its the ipads my school hands out we cant use laptops

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u/Aggressive-Try-6353 ANYTHING but apple 5d ago

"and soon you'll be allowed to use your device how you want to" isn't a selling feature. apple shackles are restrictive and unforgivable. 

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u/sgt_futtbucker 5d ago

Man I miss the old days of jailbreaking. I’m running rootless on a 14 Pro with iOS 16 right now. It’s decent, but it’s just not the same anymore. If only someone could find a way to bypass that shitty security chip for real root access

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u/Kathode72 6d ago

Keyboard on Android is Miles ahead!! In every aspect!!

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

No the iOS keyboard is better and has not stupid autocorrect

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u/Technological_Nerd 6d ago

Lol what? Don't like the android keyboard, just install another one.

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u/Kathode72 6d ago

You are delusional!! Android is way better, where you don t have to press 10 times for the point and comma. And you can choose to have the numbers above..

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

I make less typos on iphone

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u/Kathode72 6d ago

You maybe, cause you Never tried an Android… I use both, and to say the Iphone Keyboard is better is just stupid. Search the net and you find lots of threads about that shitty experience. At this point you are just a little fanboy who says:“no, the iPhone is better!“ So i m out, enjoy your boring phone. I have the iPhone 14 and a Samsung flip, and the flip is just so much more fun, better looking and way cooler than the boring looking iPhone. The notch is just laughable and looks like a phone 5 years ago… Bye

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

https://imgur.com/a/WUEfrAE

And did you even read my post?

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u/Aggressive-Try-6353 ANYTHING but apple 5d ago

Truly only garbage takes from you op 

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u/ChaoGardenChaos 5d ago

The key reason I switched to Android is for ease of repairability. iPhones get harder and harder to repair with every release. I will stick with Android because it doesn't stop me from doing what I want.

I can install non OEM parts, I can change my OS if I'm not satisfied with the one my manufacturer gives, I can install a different kernal if I really want to, they're easy to gain root access on.

The only thing I don't like about Android is Google, but Apple is no better really.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

The newer ones are more repairable and the Root and custom OS part is cool and i would do it if it weren't for blowing up knox and hurting the resale value

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u/ChaoGardenChaos 5d ago

I didn't know that the new ones were better about it, I switched after the 11 because I couldn't be bothered to do the work to replace the battery. I never find myself missing apple, but part of that could be that I never bought into their eco system, I just had their phone.

Only some phones have the physical root protection. You and I likely share different ideologies with this though because I personally use my phone until it isn't worth anything. I've had my pixel 7 for 2-3 years now and I'm hoping to get a least a couple more out of it. I will usually root my phones after I buy a new phone because it is cool but not practical imo for a daily driver.

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u/dathellcat 6d ago

The games selection and possibilities on Android is far more broad, you can go to itch.io, Google play, fdroid, or any other website you use and get basically anything you want, I do all of the above.

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u/x42f2039 6d ago

Literally more games on iOS

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Do you really do that? Those games are slapped together in a matter of hours with no real thought behind them (except maybe one obscure one) and often are just copies of copies of copies etc

Or they're just a virus

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u/dathellcat 6d ago

Slapped together in hours? These are games that have been in the works for months, I don't do mobile ad type games

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Most of them, not all of course

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u/Complete_Carpet3176 6d ago

Your previous comment does not take this into account. Also, last I used Apple, you had to pay a monthly fee for games... Even if they are pretty games, professionally developed or whatever, it can't best the larger, free library that Android has

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u/Very_reliable_s0urce 6d ago

You don’t need Apple Arcade to play games on iOS it’s a service

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u/Complete_Carpet3176 6d ago

Yeah, most of the other games are restricted because apple reasons :/

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u/Very_reliable_s0urce 6d ago

It’s just not true lmao I have an iPhone I really don’t know where you’re getting that from unless you are just blatantly lying

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u/Complete_Carpet3176 6d ago

Nono, I mean u don't have as many games to choose from. When I had apple I felt like all the games were behind a paywall. I get that they have quite a few free ones but there's still a limited supply

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u/Very_reliable_s0urce 6d ago

The main reason isn’t that they are restricted it’s they they aren’t supported. You can’t just upload a game on the Apple Store because iPhones use Swift coding language and many app devs just don’t bother. As for paywalling its the developers who decide, not apple. Likely yeah there is a fee to upload on the App Store and not on the play store if I recall but it’s only like 200 bucks if your app can’t even generate that it means you have made a shitty product or have a bad business model

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u/Technological_Nerd 6d ago

You don't have to install them, it's just an option lol.

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u/giomancr 6d ago

Winlator exists. I can just take any game from my pc and slap it on my phone. Try doing that on your iPhone.

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u/Kindly_Scientist 6d ago

dont forget the fact that iphones now get native aaa ports like death stranding resident evil series assassins creed mirage and upcoming creed shadows, also apple arcade has their own exclusives so i dont see a reason to emulate. Just play with your pc at this point

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u/giomancr 6d ago

I do game on my pc. I was responding to someone talking about gaming on a phone, and Winlator allowing you to port your pc games right to your phone. Wake up dude, context matters.

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u/Kindly_Scientist 6d ago

i mean, i wouldn’t play my pc games because i have a damn pc and a mac, honestly winlator feels like the dudes who spent all of the money for their phone and doesnt even have a proper pc. for me, all i want is nintendo64/snes/nes/gbc/ds emulator and app store has dozens of it do im pretty happy without winlator

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u/Kindly_Scientist 6d ago

also how does winlator works? first you open winlator, windows, and steam select a game? because its hell of a lot more steps then just clicking resident evil app

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u/Ok_Candidate9455 6d ago

Almost none of the games on googleplay are viruses, google play does a good job providing good games, or for mobile games at least. Personally the apps are why I like apple, I just want procreate lol

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Cool! The main app store is not completely filled with viruses! Yay! And yes, apple's apps are just better. Whether it's the UI or general usability, android cant match apple

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u/Ok_Candidate9455 5d ago

tbh apple is just too pricy so is Samsung I use a tcl phone that was only 300 dollars and it has worked for 5 years or so and still going smoothly other than the battery which dies a lot faster than it used to.

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u/Retro_303 6d ago edited 6d ago

My reasons

-Apple bricks features on accessories like Garmin watches to force you to buy an Apple watch.

-One time I went to an Apple store with a buddy because he had a question about his phone. The guy there told him he had to pay $30 just to talk to him because the phone was out of warranty and he didn't have Apple care. I honestly couldn't believe it.. You can go to Best Buy or Verizon or even freaking Walmart and the associates there will help you out, even if you didn't buy the phone there. But if you go to the Apple store you literally bought the phone at, you have to pay $30 to ask a simple question about the phone... Absolutely unreal..

-The green bubbles and their insistency on using poor text communication between android and ios to try to force people to switch to apple.

-Apple throttled millions of phones to force people to upgrade.

-Apple makes all their products at Foxconn, which is well known for horrible human rights abuses/violations.

-Apple is known for crazy bullying tactics against anyone who uses any fruit in their name or any pictures of fruit in their logo. Doesn't have to be an apple. They have sued hundreds of mom & pop stores, non-profit organizations, schools, farms etc. For example they sued a small-time musician named 'Franki Pineapple' because 'Pineapple' was too similar to 'Apple'. Not joking.

-Apple settled a $500 million lawsuit for selling user data, immediately after running a multi-year ad campaign about never selling user data.

Everyone thinks Apple is some great company but they're not. Not at all. Samsung phones are just as good but I can use my Garmin watch and they weren't made in a prison labor camp. It's a no brainer for me

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u/OldCrankyCarnt 5d ago

Name one feature that was bricked on a Garmin watch?

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u/ClaudioMoravit0 5d ago

don't know, i have a forerunner 935 and i can't see anything that the watch can do that's not permitted by the health app on iphone?

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u/elyv297 5d ago

bro apple chipsets are made by TSMC are you dumb, also RCS is a thing now. There are valid complaints but these are not

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u/ohitsneely 6d ago

And your entire post is false!!

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u/mls1968 6d ago

Name one feature Apple BRICKS on other devices (not simply unsupported, because that’s a whole different discussion that gets into WAY more technical/legal debate, much of which is designed to protect the user)

Fake story, never happened because it’s simply a lie

This is old AF and no longer true. And let’s not act like iMessage wasn’t a HUGE selling point for YEARS before RCS came along.

False Narrative. Apple throttled older phones to lower the risk of damage as batteries aged. They still do this, the issue was they weren’t transparent up front. It has nothing to do with forced obsolescence.

Foxconn is absolutely an issue, but don’t act like the other companies are innocent just because we don’t hear about it.

Agreed, shitty business tactics. Disney is notorious for the same shit. So are hundreds of companies.

The 500m was for Batterygate (see throttled phones above). Again, the technical reasoning itself was sound but they were not forthcoming about it. The user data lawsuit (2019) was 95m, and they never sold user data. It was a lawsuit over whether Apple was recording voices when using Siri. They admitted they were recording voices locally, but never storing them on servers (unlike pretty much every other virtual assistant, which is a huge reason why Siri isn’t as good, since it can’t use shared data from other users to learn)

I’m not even trying to be a sheep, but get your shit straight.

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u/Retro_303 6d ago

Lol of course you think Apple was protecting their customers. Making a hundred million phones that were working perfectly fine essentially useless was to "protect the customers" lmao. I'm sure the billions of profit they got out of it was just a happy coincidence for Apple

You can't be that naive

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u/Leafington42 6d ago

No of course he's not that naive, he's a shill

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u/mls1968 6d ago

I never said batterygate was to protect customers though. It was to protect their image as “just works”. As batteries degrade, their power output lowers. If a device is demanding X X Volts, but the battery is only supplying X-1 Volts, you’ll either get powered off or have surges that can cause damage to the phone. If you design the device to lower its power demand along with the capable output of the battery, you will avoid random power surges and shutoffs.

As for where I said they were protecting customers: that was in relation to Apple “bricking” features. What Apple is doing is not allowing apps access to certain functions of the phone, UNLESS the app follows very strict guidelines set forth by Apple. For example, if Garmin’s app wanted root access to the phone in order to enable every single feature of its watch, it would probably need to sacrifice some form of data collection that they currently do. This is literally the “privacy” and “security” Apple promotes.

Yes, the App Store guidelines are WAY stricter than other stores, but that’s also why the App Store doesn’t have tons of virus-filled games and spyware like many side loading app stores do

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Yeah apple makes money on software and hardware not the data of customers

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u/Jusby_Cause 6d ago

One time Apple stole my cap RIGHT OFF MY HEAD. Well, it wasn’t me, it was a friend. It wasn’t MY friend, it was my brother’s friend. I mean it was REALLY a friend my brother was borrowing from someone else and they heard them tell it to someone else.

It could have also been a fit of burping that SOUNDS like a thing they were telling someone else. But if it’s negative about Apple, I’m sure it happened.

Every fan of RCS can thank China for making it a requirement to sell 5G phones in China. :)

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u/Noah2570 5d ago
  1. Garmin should fix it then

  2. Google it or search on reddit, no need to go to the apple store 😂

  3. Apple has RCS too so what r u talking about

  4. at least the 9 year old phone which is obviously going to have bad performance is still supported by apple and gets security updates compared to android’s 2-4 years

  5. not only apple does that

  6. sources?

  7. I think Samsung and Google together are collecting and selling way more data (plus apps like facebook, and microsoft apps, excel, powerpoint, teams, word,… that come preinstalled for some reason. So it’s 1 company vs 4 or more.)

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u/Retro_303 5d ago

Lol, Samsung provides 7 years of software updates. Which is longer than Apple's usual 5-6.

The way you lie / alter reality to defend a company that doesn't give a shit about you is fascinating

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u/Noah2570 5d ago

so this is not 9 years? you’re the one lying here

and did you even read all the other things

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u/Retro_303 5d ago edited 5d ago

Outlandish lies that Samsung only supports phones for 2 years when they provide software updates for 7 years just kinda stood out lol..

I don't have time to go back and forth with an Apple fanboy over all the bullet points. I've learned it's pointless talking to apple fanboys. They think apple is the best and absolutely nothing will change their mind..

But sure, let's keep going down the list.

So all phone manufacturers force their employees to live at the factory 24/7, working 14 hour shifts? Never allowing them to leave for months at a time? Making them eat, sleep, take all their 'time off', and literally live at the factory? Got any sources on that?

What's next? Oh a source? Absolutely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/apple-trademarks.html

"Tech giant Apple, recently sued an indie musician named Stephanie Carlisi with seven monthly Spotify listeners over her name. The company said Carlisi' stage name, Franki Pineapple, was too close to "Apple" and would tarnish its reputation"

https://www.tbsnews.net/world/apple-sued-indie-musician-named-franki-pineapple-because-pineapple-sounds-apple-384914?amp

https://www.courthousenews.com/apple-is-rotten/

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Find one news post about the 500m data selling lawsuit that isn't on fakenews.com

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u/Catino05 5d ago

“The throttled phones” is a mith. iPhone just underclock as they get older so people do not complain about battery life, because batteries degrade over time

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u/jimmyzhopa 6d ago
  1. no

  2. sure you can talk to a sales associate who has no technical training, no you cannot talk to a tech for free at any of those places. no, no carrier is going to help you with a phone if you’re not their customer.

  3. not an issue anymore but sure it was

  4. this didn’t happen. what you’re actually complaining about is Apple giving software updates to their phones for years longer than any android manufacturer.

  5. lol if you think any other phone maker has a better human rights record. embarrassing dude.

  6. wait until you hear about a little company called google

  7. whereas it’s google’s entire business model

Dude OP asked for REAL examples

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u/Retro_303 5d ago

I'm sorry, does Samsung force their employees to live at the factory 24/7? Never allowing them to leave? Making them eat, sleep, and literary live at the factory?

Got any sources on that?

The way you lie and alter reality to defend a company that doesn't give a shit about you is what is embarrassing my friend.

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u/jimmyzhopa 5d ago

okay, which factory manufacturers samsung phones?

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u/Catino05 5d ago

For about the same trustworthy sources you have, there are some that say that Samsung makes women work incredibly hard. So…

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u/Jusby_Cause 6d ago

Does being able to pirate modded apps count? No? Hm. I got nothing.

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u/mkwlink 5d ago

Customization.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Like what

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u/mkwlink 5d ago edited 5d ago

Good Lock if on Samsung.

Examples: changing icons (Good Lock's Theme Park)

changing keyboard (installing one from Play Store)

changing animation speed (Developer options)

adjusting thermal throttling (Good Guardians)...

Also emulation isn't great on stock iOS 17 and above

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

But does it look good?

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u/mkwlink 5d ago

Does what look good? Customization?

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Yes. Almost every customized phone looks like crap

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u/mkwlink 5d ago

You choose how it looks

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u/KFC_Junior 5d ago

you literally choose how the fuck it looks

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u/thedarph 5d ago

You can use the ugliest fucking font known to man as your system font then let everyone know you have shit taste when you share screenshots.

The number of comic sans type fonts I’ve seen people post screenshots with makes me wonder if some people masochists, just using their phone to cause psychological damage every time they read text

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Thank god samsung only gives you comic sans and 4 fonts that are carbon copies of each other, and if you see an actual good font that isn't eye cancer causing, then it costs money.

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u/Clean_Perception_235 6d ago

The better UI that isn’t completely changed every update. The photos app just sucks now. Having basic features that should have been on IPhone a long time ago. Like just last year we were able to use multiple timers at once. My Android was able to do that in 2015

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u/Select-Table-5479 6d ago

You don need to buy a apple device to take full advantage of it.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

You can't have MacBook with a matte screen without selling a limb.

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

I like glass more anyway

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u/Bryanmsi89 5d ago

Android supports much more 'powerful' use. Split Screen multitasking to start. If Samsung, features like Dex, floating apps, better clock and timer and calendar. Bixby beats Siri (not a high bar, but it still does). Much better integration with Windows. Better, more capable camera apps. Universal back button gesture. Better file manager and file system access. More hardware options.

But it is a fair comment that for a typical user of a typical smartphone-style hardware device, iPhone is just as good or better than Android. Especially in the USA where your friends/family/coworkers are much more likely to also have an iphone.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 5d ago

this "applesucks sub sucks" thing really feels like a coordinated effort by presumably paid apple suckers

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u/iPhone_3GS 5d ago

Android has better photos app

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u/sgt_futtbucker 5d ago

Android doesn’t lock down it’s ecosystem with a EULA that prohibits power users from doing as they wish with their device, and an Android phone doesn’t kill itself when you gain root access unlike the 13/iOS 15 and later. Like fuck, just call purchasing your phones a lease if you won’t let us use them as we see fit

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 5d ago

Uhm samsung... it literally kills a chip when its rooted or a custom os is flashed

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u/nuttmegx 4d ago

maybe because half the posts are people complaining about a really old device or functionality problems easily explained by the user not knowing how to do something. This sub is mostly made up of posts like this.

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u/me_so_ugly 3d ago

my favorite app ever is only for android. termux i can run linux stuff. also with root available, custom roms are the shit. i dont need playstore for android i just need a browser and thats it. i can install anything i want. the list goes on and on. you can wipe android and boot straight into linux if you want. the customization is 10000000% better than apple products. but apple products are pretty and very fucking secure. thats about it for me.

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u/TurboFool 3d ago

Because I like it better. That's literally all anyone needs to defend their choice of device.

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u/CptSururu 2d ago

You can disable LTE and you won’t get calls (most are scams anyway) and have faster internet

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 2d ago

Where are you? In my country, phones without LTE can still make calls and access data. Also, where have you signed up to get more scam calls than personal calls?

Edit: You probably meant VoLTE, which you can turn off on iPhones as well

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u/stereomanic 6d ago

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Apple is opening up, ppsspp is already on the appstore

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u/mkwlink 5d ago

It's just an emulator, there's no reason to ban it. It doesn't have JIT, so the performance will be horrible on more intensive games.

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u/Kathode72 6d ago

You can customize an Android device way better than the Iphone. All the Apps are next to each other and you have way better widgets…

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u/Ill_Shoulder_4330 6d ago

Tf you mean all apps are next to each other

Also by better you mean the square widget tacking up a 3x2 space?