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SMS vs data. iPhone to iPhone uses a data connection with richer media sharing features. Plus SMS is in a different color, so you can easily/remotely judge your peer for using Android.
> ... judge your peer for not using iPhone. Ftfy. It's not just iOS and Android out there.
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Yup, you just can't beat standardization The support is way better because there isn't a million different models
I think it has more to do with vertical integration of the hardware and software than the number of models. Supporting Android phones requires collaboration between the chip vendors, hardware manufacturers, and Google, which is difficult.
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The photo library on a Mac can be in any local drive. You could put it on iCloud Drive but that would be redundant. You iPhone or iPad take photos and store them in a local cache that syncs to iCloud. It is separate from iCloud Drive but the storage comes from the same iCloud capacity that you have subscribed to. On your Mac the files are stored in a library folder that can be on any local drive. Those files can be b…
If you do your backups on the mac, do they include all photos in iCloud Photos? Or only ones you manually export?
It would be trivial to restore the whole set of photos. It is more complex to restore specific individual photos as you would need to know the file name of that photo.
If you want to generate an alternate photo store you can export some or all of the photos but that is not necessary for backups.
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So what phone do you recommend for someone who is looking for a new phone?
If security is a concern, getting a newer Pixel and installing GrapheneOS is your best bet. It's still not perfect and nothing beats just not having a cell phone, but that's a choice very few are okay with today. The trick with GrapheneOS, or any privacy setup, is that it requires attention to stay reasonably secure. The OS won't matter if you enable Google services and install apps that track and sell all your data.
My problem is, as a user, whose expertise is not 100% security, how can a layman decide which device to trust? Trust the neighbor, trust the expert who thinks is an expert, but doesn't see his own limitations, trust the newspapers parroting whatever they find (or their security advisor), trust the marmots or trust the looks, because you don't know what the silicon does. You might know one domain, but not multiple ones, like you might know the IT domain, but doesn't know the underlying physics domain, so you might think the phone is secure in the IT domain, but since you don't know jackshit about the physics, you have to again rely on someone's advice.
The iPhone is locked down tight, even security experts have complained in the past because analysing the core internals is cumbersome. But that's a double edged sword, when you can't even get basic info about phone's status without resorting to some hacking shenanigans.
Any way to know your firmware has not changed? How come there are zero tools for the layman to verify the status of his device? You don't know whether your usb's firmware is intact, whether your motherboard is a-ok and the list goes on.
According to newspapers, it is/was the panacea of security (iPhone), yet sec bugs after sec bugs are coming out all the time. You don't even have complete control over the phone, since the software switches (like wifi) are not actually disabling the wifi circuitry.
How come banks are sitting on ancient systems and are seemingly fine?
Should you trust zerodium's bounty prices, should you trust exploit brokers? (they ought to see what's an emmentaler right?)
Encrypted secure phones? Look how many criminals got caught, by putting their trust blindly into something, that someone parroted about how secure that is.
GrapheneOS says they are secure, but where are tools that show you that yes we do this and that and that solves these kinds of attacks, thwarted these attacks in the past, demonstrated?
Or should I go with an old blackberry? What about this article? https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/14/11434926/blackberry-encry...
Should you consider Mikko's advice. Use a phone that is made by a country, whose intelligence agency is not a threat to you? But how do you know that a phone, which is made in X country is actually controlled by that country's IA? And how do you know which IA is not a threat to you? :DDDDD Do you even have to fear against a nation state's capabilities or since they have unimited budget you are fucked when somehow get in their crosshairs?
It's like flipping a coin, putting your trust into someone's solution blindly.
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If you do your backups on the mac, do they include all photos in iCloud Photos? Or only ones you manually export?
I do the backups from my Mac. Photos on that Mac is configured to download all of the photos in iCloud Photos. It is the source of truth for my photos. The photos are stored in a library directory as discrete files and the backup software has no problem backing them up. It would be trivial to restore the whole set of photos. It is more complex to restore specific individual photos as you would need to know the file n…
I don’t have a Mac laptop anymore, and my library was starting to get too big to fit on any one device. That’s when I realized they had no other way of accessing/moving/transferring/backing up, so I moved it out using some special photo backup software before I got stuck.
Lesson learned!
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People just like to think they're special "thinking out of the box" rebels because they use android when the equivalent android phone costs the same as an iphone. There's very little price difference between the models for the main brands (you can off course find cheaper alternatives with their own issues) but if you get an iphone and a samsung side by side odds are they're at the same price range. And as a professio…
> I doubt many people in developed countries care that much about the fact that you use an apple device or not Girls absolutely covet iphones like sacred cows. some go as far as to not date guys who use android. its weird but I've seen it myself.
iPhone -> pragmatism