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I'd heard about some of the imessage exploits prior to getting my iPhone, and so the first thing I did was uninstall imessage. Happily, the OS allowed me to do this. I haven't missed a thing, frankly.
"Uninstall" in the case of system apps is more of a "hide the icon" than uninstall.
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You literally just gave no reasons. Edit: So to clarify, you could be saying "there is something better about Apple" or "Apple people are complete suckers." Which is it?
I'm saying that creating a premium product cannot be distilled down to one feature/dimension/characteristic and it's a fruitless task to just ask people on the internet to do it for you. 1) Many people can't specifically identify and articulate which characteristics lead them to prefer one product over another. 2) Many people have different reasons for preferring the same product over the same alternative 3) An indiv…
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I don't think Google is serious about stores. I'm in Austin and Google has a sizable presence here. They have offices (I've gone to seminars they host), it's a Google Fiber city, lots of schools use Chromebooks and Google Classroom, and it's become a tech hub. There are Apple stores in malls and those malls all have lots of vacancy. It's a no-brainer that if Google were going to have stores anywhere, they would have…
I don't know if Google is serious about stores, but the one in Chelsea in NYC is in an extremely high foot traffic location (right across the street from Chelsea Market), in a building they already own. And Google NYC is way bigger than Google Austin. I don't think starting there rather than Austin shows they aren't serious. Also, FWIW, the store is pretty nice! Has a much warmer feel than an Apple store.
I think a lot of it is the UX and design feeling so advesarial and frankly cheap. I'm a long time android user but lately I've been wondering if it's still a reasonable choice. I'm writing this from my brand new pixel and I'm frankly shocked how bad the UX is. one of the most blatant dark patters is the impossible to remove (without installing a third party launcher) google assistant/search bar that takes up the most…
It's a band-aid solution really, but I can recommend you check out the launcher Lawnchair. It looks and behaves much like the stock launcher, but is far more customizable, letting you change the things you mentioned. Thankful that Android will still let you change out the launcher, at least.
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Anyone can buy an iPhone for the same price or less than most Android phones. $399/429.
That's the price of a decent midrange Android phone. I'm pretty sure most Android phones are less than $400.
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I'm saying that creating a premium product cannot be distilled down to one feature/dimension/characteristic and it's a fruitless task to just ask people on the internet to do it for you. 1) Many people can't specifically identify and articulate which characteristics lead them to prefer one product over another. 2) Many people have different reasons for preferring the same product over the same alternative 3) An indiv…
So..Suckers. Got it.
I find much more value in the view that a great product is the confluence of millions of tiny, apparently inconsequential decisions. It seems completely believable that if the product developers are successful, I as the consumer would struggle to reverse engineer what all of those decisions are by looking at the finished product.
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1) Not being locked in into the Google ecosystem and being tracked by that company. You need to be logged in into your Google account for the play store, which means you're looped in to Gmail and Google calendar. In iOS I can choose to use different providers for email, calendar, and password management or remove the apps (for the first two). 2) Long support which makes the price really reasonable. I've been using an…
You need an apple account to use their store or? You can also use a different Google account (or account generally) for every app, on non botched stock android at least. You can also remove all apps with stock android, also Google apps. Samsung really skewed the view by shipping the worst possible android. My Google account for my phone is just for that nothing else. My last phone cost $120 and lasted 6 years, it sti…
And I checked on my old Android phone, an Nokia 6.1, which is supposed to have stock Android, and I can't delete these apps: calendar, drive, lens, gmail, chrome, files, photos.
[0] https://www.macworld.com/article/673831/how-to-use-an-iphone...
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I attribute most of it to marketing. Both companies make pretty great phones that do more or less the same things equally well. Apple is better at selling phones. Aside from better ads, they have prominent stores in most major cities. If you want to see the latest Pixel phone, you're going to have to visit a carrier store or Best Buy. As bad as an Apple store might be today, stepping into a T-Mobile store is worse. I…
>I attribute most of it to marketing. Android people usually do. That doesn't make it entirely true, though. The overall experience of using an iPhone is, for most people, more consistent and smooth. You're correct to note network effects, but I think you overstate the importance of iMessage for most people. I don't really care if you're green or blue in my text window, and I don't think many people really do. What I…
There are a lot of people who do care, especially in group chats. There's an experience downgrade when an Android user is added to a group chat.
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Do you find it reliable or is it whack-a-mole with constants updates required as the main service providers close exploits? Spotify surprises me because I would think the API is locked down and requests are authenticated. I guess it's abusing the free tier and spoofing the request to avoid rate limits?
Youtube vanced require(d) an update approximately annually, but it has an auto-updater utility so it's just a few taps to do. Most hacked apps are similar (although there is no consistency).
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You need an apple account to use their store or? You can also use a different Google account (or account generally) for every app, on non botched stock android at least. You can also remove all apps with stock android, also Google apps. Samsung really skewed the view by shipping the worst possible android. My Google account for my phone is just for that nothing else. My last phone cost $120 and lasted 6 years, it sti…
I do have an Apple account myself, but apparently you don't need one[0] And I checked on my old Android phone, an Nokia 6.1, which is supposed to have stock Android, and I can't delete these apps: calendar, drive, lens, gmail, chrome, files, photos. [0] https://www.macworld.com/article/673831/how-to-use-an-iphone...
Every phone I owned in the last 10 years allowed full control about apps without root. That's a nexus, a cheap Oppo and now a Xiaomi.
Edit:// I thought you need an account to activate the iphone? Not sure if I am totally wrong