Why I'm Ditching Android

Post by testrun » Sat, Nov 03, 2018, 11:48 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #141

tootie wrote: post #28

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I think you can say that if privacy is important to you, then you are probably more aligned with Apple's business plan. The article says as much. It's not like Apple are being more magnanimous, it's just that they don't profit off of user tracking so they use it as marketing ammo against Google users. As a developer, it constantly burns my biscuits that Apple software only runs on Apple hardware. The fact that I have…

The fact that I have no choice but to buy expensive Apple devices to develop for their platform is irritating. I've never understood this line of thinking. Maybe it's because I've been selling programs commercially since the 1980's. Back then, if you wanted to develop a program for a Commodore 64, you bought a Commodore 64. If you wanted to port it to a TRS-80, you bought a TRS-80. If you needed an Atari version, you…

Post by tootie » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 12:07 AM UTC

ummonk wrote: post #169

com2kid wrote: post #164

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And yet now days, cross plat development for any other imaginable combination is possible. Apple is the lone hold out here. But they also have no reason to change.

Really? Is there a practical way to do windows development on Linux?

Post by gregknicholson » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 12:19 AM UTC

tootie wrote: post #28

SamWhited wrote: post #12

I've been coming around to this way of thinking more and more lately. Apple has a clear business model that involves selling high-end phones and other hardware and taking a percentage of app sales, not selling me to advertisers. I've found at least 5 different privacy settings buried in various places around the Android menus in a confusing way (instead of just having a single switch in the privacy settings menu), an…

I think you can say that if privacy is important to you, then you are probably more aligned with Apple's business plan. The article says as much. It's not like Apple are being more magnanimous, it's just that they don't profit off of user tracking so they use it as marketing ammo against Google users. As a developer, it constantly burns my biscuits that Apple software only runs on Apple hardware. The fact that I have…

Post by beerlord » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 1:26 AM UTC

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #132

I'm also thinking about ditching android, for a completely different reason. I want a premium phone. I like good cameras, and big fat CPUs. So I've been using Samsung phones for a while. I currently have an S6, which I have been pretty happy with. But it has come to my attention that it has received its last update about 6 months ago. Samsung only sends updates for two years. Having an internet-connected device that…

Post by chmln » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 2:11 AM UTC

philjohn wrote: post #129

chmln wrote: post #111

As they say, when there's a will - there's a way. The author clearly did not evaluate all of the alternatives, and simply jumped from one walled garden to another. Bloatware, adware, and battery life are cited as his reasons. But he could have rooted his phone in 5 minutes then deleted all the bloatware and google apps in an instant. Add microG and adaway on top, and you have a nice ad-free system with much better ba…

> All he had to do was research. And that's the problem. One platform offers, mostly, sane defaults with strong privacy guarantees and no bloatware, the other requires you to invest time and effort, first to research, then enact.