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Not sure why self proclaimed "hackers" seem to be in love with walled gardens and corporate control :)
That's the thing, you don't have to be! You are welcome to use another phone more to your liking.
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That's the thing, you don't have to be! You are welcome to use another phone more to your liking.
You obviously know that it's not just the phone, it's the apps we can use on them. There are only two companies and they both control the market.
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Or it disincentivizes creating those features, if you must give it to your competitors.
Bro, market is there to benefit consumer first, not to make money for shareholders.
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Not sure why self proclaimed "hackers" seem to be in love with walled gardens and corporate control :)
That's the thing, you don't have to be! You are welcome to use another phone more to your liking.
And it's not only about users. Headphone manufactures too. Their headphones need to support both iOS and Android phones.
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Apple used to brag that “it just works”. That included peripherals it did not control. Nowadays, it can’t even have its own devices work correctly. Apple has stopped improving long ago, and it’s not regulation that’s at fault.
I was unconvinced till I switched my devices, one by one, to Apple products a few years ago. They really do just work, especially with specification abiding devices. Everything else feels flakey.
For example, I have Sony and Bose headphones with bluetooth multi point. The way this is supposed to work for example is that I can connect them to my PC and my smartphone and have my PC playing videos or whatever, and my phone can override that when something "priority" like a phone call comes in.
Except if the iPad is one of the connected devices, then it will claim priority once a minute or so, _even if it's playing no audio_, thereby interrupting other audio streams pointlessly. This makes all the other devices look like they can't play audio and the iPad can, and I'm sure the iPad plays nice with airpods, but it seems weird to me that every non-Apple combination of devices I hve also plays nice with each other.
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I actually have a problem with this. I want AirPods to be undeniably the best experience for me because I am fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, and I know many folks have complaints against that. I find it to be rather pleasurable to use compared to all the other alternatives out there. So if I have to start sacrificing my experience in favor of universal support, that really sucks.
Is there anything that makes you believe they'll sacrifice quality to have universal support?
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Apple can't perform well with audio on Apple Silicon, either. In 2025 macos is the only OS with audio cracking appearing with CPU load. Even Linux is better
I don't think it's CPU-based, but I've always had an issue with my AirPods Max on my iPhone with audio cracking (my AirPods Pro work fine, and the Max works fine with my Mac)
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You obviously know that it's not just the phone, it's the apps we can use on them. There are only two companies and they both control the market.
There are far more than two companies selling phones.
Anyone have a solution for this?