Why is my post marked as flagged?
Because the title is "The iPhone is Dead" instead of something like "Why I Switched to Android".
The iPhone is Dead
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#23 Sounds like it was written by a Samsung rep.
I will agree that Apple has some problems. My iPhone 6 Plus, which I had babied for years, suddenly got the touch disease. No cracks in the screen, original screen, No damage. Yet the entire phone was bricked by the infamous touch disease. It's amazing when you spend $900 on the phone, including AppleCare that never got used, and a software bug can make it completely useless as a phone or in any way.
I did encounter a friend with an iPhone 5 to sell and I bought that cheap. Then, for a $20 kit on Amazon.com, I was able to replace the battery in 20 minutes (freaking easy) and now I have a brand new iPhone 5, in effect.
As for the alleged difficulties in Siri, I must disagree. I have found that people who complain about Siri often have sloppy speech or an accent. You have every right to be upset about that, but you must acknowledge that there is more to it than just Siri sucks. I do not have an accent of any kind and speak perfect English, and Siri never has a problem understanding me.
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#24There are a lot of useless personal anecdotes in this blog post, but one resonates with me strongly: Apple needs to better handle spam calls. In fact the entire mechanism dealing with how we make phone calls (authenticating callers) is ripe for disruption.
Which anecdotes do you find useless?
The author's iPhone 6+ does not age well with apps consuming significant power. That anecdote is not useful, because that is a particular issue with the author's phone and not general enough to be useful. If you abuse your phone battery, it will not maintain capacity. My 6 plus's battery is at 89% capacity after 3+ years.
The author complains about Apple technical support, but brings up a anecdote about a laptop (I thought this was about a phone). Can you bring a Samsung phone to a Samsung store to get it repaired? I remember needing to mail my Samsung phone in for warranty repair and the screen coming back with a diagonal slice where they cut the packaging open. That sucked, but I am not going to blame all of Samsung for that (it was probably an unfortunate mistake) or blame the Android ecosystem.
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#25There are a lot of useless personal anecdotes in this blog post, but one resonates with me strongly: Apple needs to better handle spam calls. In fact the entire mechanism dealing with how we make phone calls (authenticating callers) is ripe for disruption.
iOS supports seamless call blocking via inexpensive 3rd party apps like Hiya. Hiya works great, calls that are suspect get labeled and calls that are verified fraud or marketing are never seen but available in call history. This been around since iOS 10 maybe longer.
This does not solve the fundamental issue, which is that it is trivial to spoof caller id. I get random numbers every day from scammers. We need a system where callers can certify who the callers are reliably.
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#26The last company I’d have storing my personal data is Google. In fact, any of the arguments he presents are moot to me due to the alternative being an Ad agency’s product...
Does Google Drive+Photos monetize its data even though it's a subscription product?
Have a look at the EULA for Google Drive, they take the rights to use the data for promotions and improvements of the product.
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#27> 2018
> people writing shitty blog posts and still using clickbait to get views
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#28There are a lot of useless personal anecdotes in this blog post, but one resonates with me strongly: Apple needs to better handle spam calls. In fact the entire mechanism dealing with how we make phone calls (authenticating callers) is ripe for disruption.
A big selling point of a phone to me is a built in blacklist feature. Problem is I only get that after the fact, or if I hunt for it while physically shopping. They don't usually bulletpoint it as a selling point, but it should be a standard feature. I don't own an iPhone, but I assume you have the same trouble I do with spam texts/calls and no real decent blacklisting solution (most apps just don't work and I'm not…
Not sure if it works on IPhone but on android I've had very good luck / experience with "Truecaller: Caller ID, SMS spam blocking & Dialer". It doesn't catch them all, but it did decrease the amount of spam call / text I get within a month from 23 to 1. So that is nice.