I quite enjoy my iPhone and have had one for many years. But this stubborn hostility and deliberately malicious compliance they have displayed with the DMA implementation has me really reconsidering that.
All I wanted was Firefox with ublock, and perhaps a good Gameboy emulator. But if apple is hellbent on not letting me have any of that in a sensible way I might seriously reconsider my next phone. Especially when there is a migration tool now.
If you consider android, make sure to check out the Google Pixel like of phones, it’s much smoother and cleaner of an experience than Samsung which still comes with random PUPs installed like “Samsung internet explorer” and “Samsung app store” in addition to all the standard stuff, even as absurd as having multiple assistants on the phone.
Plus the skin they put over android drains the battery and makes the whole thing lag no matter how fast the CPU.
Google nowadays may not be top dog spec wise (arguably) but their phones just have polish in a way basically just them and Apple do and often has neat extra features, like e.g. call screen.
Many of these extra features are only available in the USA, and quite a few features only work well in English.
Anyway, my previous phone (Galaxy S8) was perfectly smooth until the very end. Of course loading times for larger programs are shorter now on my Pixel 7 but in the end it barely makes a difference (I’m not playing any ressource-heavy games). Not sure what you’re doing to get a modern Android to lag.
I agree that the extra apps aren’t necessary, but it’s good that there actually is some competition for Google and most of them can be uninstalled (or at least could be uninstalled on my S8). And they have some pretty good software, not everything is back (I really like their launcher and gallery). Bixby can also simply be disabled, and you can bind any action to the Bixby-button (Google assistant, opening an app, …).
But where Pixels actually are better is when it comes to the camera (or rather camera software), their photos currently are the best ones (by phone cameras) on the market (yes, I’m including Apple here) (of course Apple and Samsung aren’t far behind (at a much higher price), but it’s incredibly impressive what the Pixel base and A models can do at a much lower price). Their photo editing AI (or rather their chip for it) also still is better than Samsung’s.
I’m not in the US, so def all I said works in the UK too, and since it’s android you can just install the for example Gemini APK on any phone anyway, but yeah obvi a feature is gonna be available in the corpo’s native language first.
Yeah you can uninstall the apps on galaxy but only via ADB and that’s a mess, for an apple user it’ll be feeling like hacking the pentagon or some such fr.
True about the camera also, but shame new pixels have such a shitty selfie cam compared to the older pixels which had variable focus and by that alone stood a whole head and shoulders taller than all others but alas the era of the bezel came to an end and so did that.
I really wish Google just kept having bezels and didn’t follow this cringe notch/cutout gimmick trend.
I completely understand that features come in their native language first but even such long-standing features like call screening aren’t available in any other language than English yet (also didn’t know it even worked outside the USA)
I quite enjoy my iPhone and have had one for many years. But this stubborn hostility and deliberately malicious compliance they have displayed with the DMA implementation has me really reconsidering that.
All I wanted was Firefox with ublock, and perhaps a good Gameboy emulator. But if apple is hellbent on not letting me have any of that in a sensible way I might seriously reconsider my next phone. Especially when there is a migration tool now.
This has been their business model since the 80s so I’m not really sure what you’d expect any change not forced by law.
I understand that, I’m just annoyed they are now required to change by law, but make it unnecessarily difficult. Like a spoiled child.
I am having Firefox with ublock and Libredirect on my Android and believe me, I can’t be happier. Apple will never allow you anything like this.
If you consider android, make sure to check out the Google Pixel like of phones, it’s much smoother and cleaner of an experience than Samsung which still comes with random PUPs installed like “Samsung internet explorer” and “Samsung app store” in addition to all the standard stuff, even as absurd as having multiple assistants on the phone.
Plus the skin they put over android drains the battery and makes the whole thing lag no matter how fast the CPU.
Google nowadays may not be top dog spec wise (arguably) but their phones just have polish in a way basically just them and Apple do and often has neat extra features, like e.g. call screen.
Many of these extra features are only available in the USA, and quite a few features only work well in English.
Anyway, my previous phone (Galaxy S8) was perfectly smooth until the very end. Of course loading times for larger programs are shorter now on my Pixel 7 but in the end it barely makes a difference (I’m not playing any ressource-heavy games). Not sure what you’re doing to get a modern Android to lag.
I agree that the extra apps aren’t necessary, but it’s good that there actually is some competition for Google and most of them can be uninstalled (or at least could be uninstalled on my S8). And they have some pretty good software, not everything is back (I really like their launcher and gallery). Bixby can also simply be disabled, and you can bind any action to the Bixby-button (Google assistant, opening an app, …).
But where Pixels actually are better is when it comes to the camera (or rather camera software), their photos currently are the best ones (by phone cameras) on the market (yes, I’m including Apple here) (of course Apple and Samsung aren’t far behind (at a much higher price), but it’s incredibly impressive what the Pixel base and A models can do at a much lower price). Their photo editing AI (or rather their chip for it) also still is better than Samsung’s.
I’m not in the US, so def all I said works in the UK too, and since it’s android you can just install the for example Gemini APK on any phone anyway, but yeah obvi a feature is gonna be available in the corpo’s native language first.
Yeah you can uninstall the apps on galaxy but only via ADB and that’s a mess, for an apple user it’ll be feeling like hacking the pentagon or some such fr.
True about the camera also, but shame new pixels have such a shitty selfie cam compared to the older pixels which had variable focus and by that alone stood a whole head and shoulders taller than all others but alas the era of the bezel came to an end and so did that.
I really wish Google just kept having bezels and didn’t follow this cringe notch/cutout gimmick trend.
I completely understand that features come in their native language first but even such long-standing features like call screening aren’t available in any other language than English yet (also didn’t know it even worked outside the USA)