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after 15 years, iOS has finally caught up with all the main android features, such as
But GooglebookOS. Not a mouthful.
Context for the non-Norwegians: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
Honestly think this commercial is just as, if not more known outside of Norway, but nice call out non-the-less!
Shittest thing about Android phones are all those third party apps, which you can’t even remove (looking at especially you, Samsung) Facebook, and so on. Unbelievable amount of bloat ware with almost every manufacturer. I would like to have Samsung, but I just can’t stand its UI and those apps.
There's a program called universal android debloater which let's you delete pretty much anything you want. I've used it and it's like a miracle.
Still once you get to that stage it's so much more tempting to skip that and get busy on trying to get postmarketOS going or something.
Still ironic that Firefox hates PWAs more than Safari
WTAF are:
very mid ui design
kinda floaty feeling
unpolished vibe
supposed to mean?
I've been an android user since I started using smart phones in the late 2000s. Android IMO has always been more user friendly and allowing someone to create their own "desktop" so to speak. Meanwhile Apple was always the "I don't like technology" phone. There was no customization, the "desktop" was just the Android app page and nothing else. Nothing could be unique to you outside of a wallpaper or a ringtone. Anyone with an iPhone just had an iPhone. It was the same thing. But someone with the same android phone could have different app placements, widgets here or there, and felt different even if it was the same phone.
Apologies for the rant, I am stoned as fuck and I ramble (And have a new keyboard I am trying to break in)
... But what has Apple "caught up to" all the "main android features"?
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can we find a way to unlock boot loaders hacks and flashing whatever is in there device and install linux os for phones already?????? PLEASE we need to start canceling the top fang stonks. and also making locked boot loaders by all carriers illegal by default and sim locks too.
Sorry, having unlocked bootloaders is unsafe for the children or whatever. Best we can do is mandatory OS and age verification every 45 seconds. Please do not resist.
IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN! YOU DON'T WANT TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN? VERY SUSPICIOUS!!!
Please submit a picture of your junk so we can make sure no transes are getting around the kids.
And here I thought I was done with penis inspection day after I graduated high school.
IOS is soon to recognize that data can be stored in these things called "files" that are located in what's called a "folder" and maybe the user can even decide where on this thing called a "hard drive" these "files" and "folders" are located instead of typing into a random search bar.
Folders? What's that normie tech illiterate win95 nonsense? My device has directories, tyvm.
They do actually have a pretty decent file manager. Unsurprisingly you can’t access system files, at least as far as I know. It’s not nearly as robust as what you can do on android, but it is easy to use.
Why you trying to stop the circle jerk with pesky facts? Shame on you
I get unbelievably angry using an iPad now. They've completely fucked up the file system and its impossible to know where anything is. By design. I hate modern computing so much.
It's always been like that. I had one of the first ipads as part of a trial to see if they were useful for grading papers in grad school. No. It was completely fucking useless because the only way to open files for editing was through sixteen shitty cloud services that each app wanted you to use. There was no way to just download files, edit them, and then put them back on blackboard like a normal fucking computer. The whole ordeal actually made me angry.
Basically the only apple mobile device I actually used was a gen 1 iPod touch I instantly jailbroke so I'm not super familiar. I use a Mac mini only for music but osx is getting so shitty now I'm wanting to change again or go back to 10.5 lol.
Got a powermac g4 cuz I wanted one again (and it came with a CRT monitor I wanted) and I was blown away how smooth it runs with 512 mb of ram. We have truly gone downhill a long fucking way in 20 years. I remember when I was optimistic about tech.
Their biggest selling point is regulated app stores...
Completely ignoring the obvious downsides of letting private for profit corporations regulate marketplaces while facing no regulations themselves.
It's shit the government should be doing
Has Apple improved Siri yet? When I asked Siri "What are humans made of?", she answered "Humans are made of human body." Fkn hilarious. Meanwhile Android phones have had Gemini for a long time now. And now Apple is giving up on developing their own AI models and will be paying Google to use Gemini for Siri. Might as well just pay less for an Android phone and get the same Gemini model.
Enshittification is just "evolutionary convergence" for capitalism.
I like shortcuts, I have some that trigger a-shell and ffmpeg/yt-dlp for conversion and/or downloading. A chore to make so I tend to use shortcuts other ppl made and modify them for my needs.
Companies are the new de facto legislators manufacturing narratives to push their ideas along. When that doesn't work, they simply use their overwhelming market share to push us there anyway, replacing our law with policy.
Nations that aren't instituting forced ID for internet use are still going to be pulled along for the ride unless they have their own digital systems to effectively replace US tech hegemony, and look how long it took to make two thoroughly "mid" mobile operating systems.
If you're worried about this sort of over reach, then consider trying a Linux distro on your phone, or a spare if you can afford it.
Replacing the complete ecosystem is going to take time and effort, and it's gonna suck but better now than never.