Termux/X11, sideloading, native Godot, file management, devic recycleability/reuseability, THE FUCKING BACK BUTTON, and crazy enough sometimes privacy even against apple’s marketing stance (this is a bit more controversial, but in a high privacy situation things like universal android debloater just can’t exist on apple - and having Icloud ‘helpfully’ store your encryption keys for you has felt as private as keeping it in my garage server)
But hey for some people the fisher-price option is the best option
lock-in and Apple tax
- Open source.
- F Droid
- Running mull, ad blocker, newpipe
Simple. I don’t want to. I like android phones. Do I need another reason?
Just price, end old phones drop in price quick can get a good one thats a couple years old for like $250.
My phone doesn’t mean much to me anymore, they were fun in the early 2010s when I could root them and overclock them and every new one was way better than the last.
But now any phone I get can do lemmy and discord and phone calls perfectly and last like 2 days on battery without being expensive.
With a de-googled custom rom like LineageOS, I’m not forced to choose between 2 mega corps.
Who’s phone did you buy and what stock OS was on it?
You chose.
It’s a Motorola and you know what I meant. In either case, I haven’t used my mobile in months, it’s been sat dead in a drawer collecting dust, and I prefer life without being connected all the time, so honestly I don’t really have a whole lot of interest in whatever argument you’re trying to get into.
At the point where they are running a custom ROM, this feels like a bad faith argument. It’s like claiming someone running Linux is clearly a Microsoft supporter when they bought a laptop preinstalled with Windows and replaced the OS day 1.
Exactly what alternative are you proposing? They don’t buy any hardware at all? It materializes out of thin air?
I’m saying that picking android to flash a custom ROM is still picking a side. It’s a valid answer to the original question. I was just being cheeky.
I have too many brain cells
I want to be the owner. <— see the period there?
I have no reason to switch. Android is generally better and upper-end android phones are much better.
I think the strongest feature of Android is that many apps are released first on Android and take months or years before they are ported to iOS. And even when they do, they are missing functionality I take for granted on Android. iOS is in fact more secure in general (if we assume Apple is altruistic) but this comes at the cost of basic things like apps running in the background, informative notifications and notification history, spam call filtering, and fast charging.
Also, if you are a normie it’s a big plus to have all the default Google apps pre-installed on most phones. If you aren’t, it’s a big plus to have the freedom to strip all non-foss apps from your phone, replace the OS with a more FOSS-friendlt OS, and otherwise customize your phone.
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Firefox with ublock and a normal engine
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Newpipe for downloading stuff off YT
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OSMand for offline navigation
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f-droid for foss software
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Rethink to carefully ban everything that doesn’t need internet from connecting
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a phone with a nice amoled screen and all-day quickcharging battery that costs 180€ (motorola g52)
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not one ad anywhere
a better question is, why would I want anything else? An iphone seems like a sharp downgrade.
not one ad anywhere
iPhone doesn’t have ads
The web does without ublock origin.
Ublock origin isn’t the only adblocker, duh
I know that and you can keep the others. Take also the new chrome version of ublock origin for manifest v3
If you go to a website in a browser it has ads, yeah?
Cuz FF with ublock origin prevents that on Android but i don’t believe that’s an option on iPhone
we have AdGuard that works just as well
Wipr is also dope! I think AdGuard works better, though.
Oh, in safari?
Yup
Neat, I had no idea it allows that now
I’m an iPhone beetch but I DEFINITELY would be so happy to have uBlock. There’s some stuff like AdGuard and Wipr but uBlock Origin is undefeated.
Just fyi: OSMand is available on iOS.
I know, and the last time I saw it it was just complete buggy shit with a different UI and nowhere near feature parity.
It continues to be buggy shit. I tried switching from Google Maps to OSMAnd on iOS and didn’t last a week
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I do not want to support a trillion dollar company that makes it impossible to repair my own stuff.
Sideloading apps
Paying x4 times the price for a device
Notification light. Repairability (I can practically op this thing open like the hood of a car). Far cheaper options. Headphone jack. Side loading. Fingerprint sensor. Dedicated shutter and focus button. Non proprietary charger that isn’t terrible. Emulators. Firefox plus adblocker. Customisability (least important for me honestly).
I am just happy that I have options. I can do whatever I want with this hardware. I own this device and have complete freedom. I work in repair and I am thoroughly aware of apple’s anti-consumer practices and it disgusts me. I could never buy a device from apple out of principle.
It sickens me when I have to tell customers “your totally repairable device is fucked because apple makes it arbitrarily impossible to repair.”. It makes me even sadder when they just buy another apple device, rewarding them for their behaviour.
A foss os with hardened security.
