• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    The recent integration Apple did in their newest update is peak usability.
    Sadly it’s locked in the ecosystem.

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      5 months ago

      Dude, I love Apple hardware for phones but their locked in ecosystem and to an extent the OS is so fucking annoying.

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        5 months ago

        My dream is the (earlier pre 2020s) openness of Android combined with the cohesion and design of Apple.

        Android truly is a magnificent clusterfuck like Windows but I still prefer that over someone like Apple defining where I can go and where not.
        For Android what is my main draw is that I can fuck around in the filesystem with apps like mixplorer and sideload apps at my own risk. The first part (this is all from the very limited time I had to fiddle with phones from clients) is impossible and the second has too many string attached as far as I am aware.
        Oh and I obviously spend money on some apps I would need to find replacements for and most likely pay again. The other points would need to be a strong contender to make me move entirely.

        But it’s very tempting.

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          5 months ago

          Best of both worlds is a jailbroken iPhone, but it’s becoming nigh impossible these days. Sure, if you have an older phone it’s still possible with some caveats, but long gone are the days of a new model being jailbroken in a year, never mind a week.

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            5 months ago

            Same with rooting.
            Sure it’s doable but outaide of special distros like lineageOS (community dev project to extend the longevity of phones and as an alternative to the OEMs flavor) and GrapheneOS (heavy privacy focus but pixel exclusive) I havent noticed or missed any major downsides I’d get from rooting my phone as I did in the past.

            Now all Google needa to do is glue the whope mess into a cohesive product without doing an Apple from A to Z.