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why do people still buy android
Alternatives include:
All of those are bigger problems than the mild crappiness of Android.
Complete tangent, because the OP of this comment thread is a joke anyway, but my boss is in the first group. This guy may own a smartphone but it lives in a drawer, I'm sure. Like, he has never once just scrolled on his phone to kill time, no way. He might have sent one text message in his entire life. And this guy is only a couple years older than me, under 50. Some people just live in a different world. He and I both live in Illinois, just so you know it's not some third world country. Well, not yet anyways.
im pretty close to becoming the tech guy with a gun next to his toaster, im sick of what the nerd reich has done on all levels of tech
not much i really do on a phone any longer that cant just be done on a pc
bro we both know mild crappiness isnt what im complaining about
also both your option 2 and 3 are better atm
/c/unpopularopinion
i genuinely worry for anyone that bases their preferences on how many goobers agree with them
Why are you here then?
surely you understand how lemmy works
fanboys are silly
Says the fanboy
of what?
im very confused what you think i support in the phone department because i think they all suck balls and wish we had better linux options
You started this thread, and continue to defend it, so yes, absolute fanboy.
is english not your first language?
Because it's better than Apple
And no nobody "buys android", it's free
pre 2026 id agree
but here we are
and donβt be obtuse, no one is talking about you emulating on your pc
Because the only usable alternative is worse.
have you been paying attention to 2026?
What magical new mobile operating system that supports current, real-world use cases was released in 2026?
quite the contrary things have only gotten worse
its simply what has and how that has rearranged the order of shit tiering in the mobile phone offerings
Sure, because iOS never had this same vulnerability π€£
because clearly its about the vulnerability and not the refusal to actually fix it
Yes, it had the weird symbol that would crash the phone if somebody sent it to you. That was 2024 https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/21/crash-iphone-by-typing-these-letters/
Or that weird image that would also crash the phone. Not sure the year of that.