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The reality was quite a disappointment. I suppose I could do at least some of the things I'd like to do with it if I rooted it, but I don't want to become a full-on hobbyist; I just want to do basic things that I routinely do in seconds on a normal PC.
This is why I'm looking at an iPhone as my next device when my current phone gives up the ghost. If you're going to force me into a walled garden then I might get one that offers the most "social interoperability" where I live, and has a nicer (imo) ecosystem built around it. The section on copy pasted designs really hit home for me. Android phones used to be the wild west of experimentation and phones that were cool…
This is why I'm looking at an iPhone as my next device when my current phone gives up the ghost. If you're going to force me into a walled garden then I might get one that offers the most "social interoperability" where I live, and has a nicer (imo) ecosystem built around it. The section on copy pasted designs really hit home for me. Android phones used to be the wild west of experimentation and phones that were cool…
The hardware keeps falling further behind on specs while it cuts features and raises prices.
The software is quickly becoming forced AI gimmicks that stop being supported in the next update and change for the sake of change for worse and bugs galore. I pretty much dread when Android updates now; the best case scenario is everything gets a bit uglier, but the typical case is instability for a couple months.
Meanwhile, Apple's ecosystem keeps getting better.
100%. I miss the days when my phone was my phone, not Google’s. And of course nowadays a Windows computer really belongs to Microsoft, and an Apple computer belongs to Apple. At least my Linux box is mine. Well, mine and Lennart’s.
The phone situation is so tragic, they're so central to our lives but so utterly awful.
When I first heard that Android was based on Linux, I thought, "Great! I'll be able to use my phone the way I use my desktop, with shell scripts, cron tasks, etc." The reality was quite a disappointment. I suppose I could do at least some of the things I'd like to do with it if I rooted it, but I don't want to become a full-on hobbyist; I just want to do basic things that I routinely do in seconds on a normal PC.
I wish Android dev wasn't such a pia and tied to Android SDK. I just want to "make" and "./main" without 10gigs of Android crap to get a hello world app.
Android lost its edge when Huawei was denied access to the Play Store. Huawei was the driving force behind true innovation in the Android ecosystem and one of its biggest contributors. Even today, my 2019 P30 Pro holds its own against the latest flagships—a testament to the kind of progress we lost.
>Even today, my 2019 P30 Pro holds its own against the latest flagships—a testament to the kind of progress we lost.
What "innovation" are you talking about? Comparisons to other phones released alongside the P30 Pro doesn't show as it being better in any meaningful aspect. Camera performance is basically the same as an iPhone[1][2], and CPU performance is about the same as other flagship Androids[3].
[1] https://www.dxomark.com/huawei-p30-pro-camera-review/
[2] https://www.dxomark.com/updated-apple-iphone-11-pro-max-came...
[3] https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-hisilicon_kirin_98...
I also have an iPhone as a work device and I've had different personal iPhones in the past. iOS is fine but Android can be much more flexible (and easy access to an open source "App Store" like F-Droid is awesome).
This is why I'm looking at an iPhone as my next device when my current phone gives up the ghost. If you're going to force me into a walled garden then I might get one that offers the most "social interoperability" where I live, and has a nicer (imo) ecosystem built around it. The section on copy pasted designs really hit home for me. Android phones used to be the wild west of experimentation and phones that were cool…
Instead, I'll be forgoing a smartphone entirely. I've been keeping close track on my smartphone usage, and there is literally nothing I use it for that is actually necessary, so giving it up seems like an easy win.
This is why I'm looking at an iPhone as my next device when my current phone gives up the ghost. If you're going to force me into a walled garden then I might get one that offers the most "social interoperability" where I live, and has a nicer (imo) ecosystem built around it. The section on copy pasted designs really hit home for me. Android phones used to be the wild west of experimentation and phones that were cool…
I'm in the same boat as well, my current Android will be my last. The hardware keeps falling further behind on specs while it cuts features and raises prices. The software is quickly becoming forced AI gimmicks that stop being supported in the next update and change for the sake of change for worse and bugs galore. I pretty much dread when Android updates now; the best case scenario is everything gets a bit uglier, b…
So do I, but to be fair, I dread all software updates on anything these days.