Comment by gdulli
10 hours ago
Then you'd be rewarding the company that pioneered and normalized taking away these rights. The next rights you'll lose will probably originate on Apple again years before Google takes them away too.
10 hours ago
Then you'd be rewarding the company that pioneered and normalized taking away these rights. The next rights you'll lose will probably originate on Apple again years before Google takes them away too.
It doesn't make any difference anyway, does it?
Then I might as well treat myself with better hardware & ecosystem.
Better hardware, yes.
But you'll be reminded quickly how comparatively shit Apple's software is.
Aka the litany of "Oh, yeah, everyone knows that's broken but just deals with it, because there's no way to fix issues on a closed platform other than {wait for Apple}."
I will take Apple's software over Samsung's ad infested, buggy & ugly software any day.
my iphone doesn't reboot every time I try to take a picture or make a phone call (on every pixel I've had)
android sucks, but it was open
now it just sucks
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I think this isn’t true at all, before the iPhone existed cellular carriers controlled software on consumer phones.
Remember when GPS navigation was a $5/month app that was a cellular plan addon?
Only phones sold by carriers were controlled by carriers. You could easily (in Europe at least) buy an unlocked phone and put in a SIM from any carrier of your choice. You could then easily install (i.e. "sideload") Java apps from anywhere you wanted, e.g. from a storage card or over Bluetooth, although some permissions were restricted unless you bought an expensive code-signing certificate.
As I recall, in the US at the time the best networks were CDMA and had more strict device activation requirements, especially Verizon.