I used to use a Macbook daily before I got a Windows laptop.
The way Apple designs their products is akin to how parents treat their toddlers. You aren’t allowed to do anything that Apple hasn’t graciously allowed you to without painful workarounds or loopholes. Plus, whereas Android and Windows have janky solutions that still work, Apple refuses to implement something unless the masses can use it. The result is that Apple’s software is years behind, and there is very little you can do about it.
Needless to say, after a few years, I just installed Windows on that Macbook, and eventually I got fed up with the bad drivers and got an HP Spectre instead.
Which is ironic since macOS is much more modifiable than windows
Ahahaha!
I am using it for work for last two years and I can say that I never worked on worse O/S. Even Gnome shell is more customizable than MacOS’ GUI.
Can you turn on natural scrolling for a touchpad and disable it for a mouse on MacOS (without using external apps)? Can you work with two or more monitors with multiple spaces without going mad? Is there even basic focus stealing prevention?
iOS is trash. Simple as that, my parents have iPhones and I’m like ‘oh you can just do X’, then I go to look, get lost in menus, then find out the basic feature doesnt even exist. I can’t sideload apps, I can’t customise my UI, it’s just incredibly limiting. iPhones are good for calls, if you wanna do anything else you are better off with an Android.
User error
In all seriousness, the biggest benefit of apple products is that the user experience just does not change over time. They are very conservative with the changes they do make, even though they will hype them up as the next big revolution in computing. It just seems arcane to you because you aren’t used to it. Apple is great for old people because things stay the same forever
Edit: I reread your comment and realized I completely misunderstood you. Yeah, apple is super behind and is lacking basic features for the reason I just mentioned. For a while you couldn’t even copy/paste on the iPhone. Really dumb imho. But the good thing is that things look the same forever, so you never have to be confused by your phone’s layout changing when you get a new phone.
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.
lock-in and Apple tax
I have a really, really hard time navigating an iPhone. Whenever I take my girlfriend’s phone, I’m lost. Their type of ergonomics doesn’t fit my needs.
Same thing the other way around. It depends on what you’re used to.
I agree.
im constantly asking her where the back button is
Me in the 90s as a kid. My uncle had a Mac. One button on the mouse. I’m like wtf is this? Two buttons too complicated? Never looked back.
I have no reason to switch. Android is generally better and upper-end android phones are much better.
I do not want to support a trillion dollar company that makes it impossible to repair my own stuff.
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.
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.
File level access to files. I would love to have the option of moving files in folders and connecting it to a PC to drag and drop files.
True multi tasking.
Ability to install apps from other sources.
My iPhone experience is a couple of years old now, but my biggest thing has been the flexibility of the home screen in Android. I can modify the home screen and run very convenient widgets for some apps with a 3rd party home screen app.
It got a lot better. Now (or I should say, in a few months) you can place icons wherever you want on the homescreen.
It’s so funny that they act like they’ve reinvented the wheel by introducing a feature Android users had for years.
I’m a developer and android is more friendly to developers, i have more control over my device. I can use any browser without being stuck with Safari. If i don’t like my phone i can choose from many more manufacturers without losing my apps and subscriptions.
I think most of all i have problem with Apples culture, their smugness and acting like they invented everything. I don’t think I’m their target audience.
Reason 1: I once owned an ipad, the experience with it was so bad that I stayed away from iphone.
Reason 2: I now have Mac for work. My experience with it is so bad that I’m staying away from iphone.
I used to have an original iPod. It was so buggy getting songs into it. It would freeze up half the time and corrupt its filesystem. I later found out that Apple deliberately made the windows experience buggy to draw more people to buy Macs. That’s unforgivable behaviour.
