• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
    40·
    4 months ago

    My dealbreakers:

    1. No proper file management on iPhones.

    2. No sideloading allowed on iPhones.

    3. No playing back local music files without doing the cumbersome syncing through iTunes on iPhones.

    4. No headphone jack, no MicroSD slot, huge storage markups on iPhones.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      4 months ago

      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:

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    38·
    4 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.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
    33·
    4 months ago
    • 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.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    4 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.

  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    26·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • tritonium@midwest.social
    22·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been forced to use iOS for my work phone and it is absolute dog shit… it feels like Android from 10+ years ago. The lack of customization and dumbass work flows drive me crazy every day.

    So many screens in different apps. make you reach way to one corner or the other to go back a screen. In Android, back is one motion that can be done anywhere from any edge. And that behaves consistently across every app. In iOS some apps behave differently, even the same app with a different screen will handle the same gesture differently. It’s an absolute shit show.

    Want to open my app list, I just swipe up from anywhere on my screen. Want my notifications, swipe down from anywhere on my screen. In iOS I have to perfectly hit the top edge and slowly drag it down.

    There are plenty of other reasons.

    Access to the filesystem. Wtf! Lmao. I download a PDF and can’t just open it? I have to basically share it with the app, it’s so dumb.

    Split screening apps.

    Complete lack of customization. The launcher is ass.

    Horrible keyboard and the one I like, SwiftKey is completely neutered and lacks the customization of Android. And some apps will use the apple keyboard even though I changed it to use Swiftkey. Again, no consistency.

    Messages will pop a notification then when I open the messenger app they are not there. I can read the message in the notification area, but there is a period of time that it doesn’t display in the actual app. Lmao. Dog shit.

    Many, many other things.

    Apps and services dying to backgrounding like the hotspot for one will just stop working after a certain amount of time.

    Want to know how I change my brightness in Android? I just slide across the status bar in any app on any screen.

    When I want to turn my flashlight on, all I do is hold my power button down for 3 seconds. Don’t have to turn my screen on and click anything.

    So many things. The settings in iOS are also a joke and the way they are organized, I just hate everything about it. It feels like I’m running Android from 2010 with less customization.

    Basically iOS is complete ass.

    • bitfucker@programming.dev
      13·
      4 months ago

      I think sandboxing the filesystem by default is a good security measure. For Android it makes sense since you can sideload an app and that always carries risks. I think it can be improved on the UX side without compromising much on security but that is not my expertise. And note that I have not used iOS devices in ages too so I don’t know how they handle the filesystem now.

  • yuri@pawb.social
    22·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.ee
    20·
    4 months ago

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

  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    4 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.

    • Thavron@lemmy.ca
      6·
      4 months ago

      The back button being top left still baffles me to this day. Let’s put it in the most hard to reach spot.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
      61·
      4 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
      2·
      4 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
          21·
          4 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.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    19·
    4 months ago

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • No benefit, there’s plenty of cool Android phones.

    Etc etc.

  • erez@programming.dev
    18·
    4 months ago
    • Can’t have the wifi and hotspot on and the same time
    • Can’t record calls
    • Can’t make homepage icons small
    • Can’t remove the default keyboard
    • Worse apps