Couple years back decided to go with an iPhone instead of an android for my upgrade. Quickly found out Android is the superior OS in almost every way - and that Apple really does just rely on being a status symbol and its brand appeal.
It’s the most stripped down restrictive phone I’ve ever used, It looks very slick all over, but that’s about the best I can say about it.
Will never get the appeal these things have, and people should be smarter than this bullshit
I'll be the guy in this thread I guess, but Apple just has better OS's. iOS has a way better UI than any android I've had. iMessage allows me to keep my American phone contacts while my mobile contract is paused and I'm living in Europe. Native and seamless device integration and iCloud.
MacBooks are also better and last longer than any Windows laptop I've ever had. And they run a native Unix system so I don't have to run my terminal through Putty to login to my school's remote server cluster and submit computation jobs. The UI is also miles better than Windows, although the gap has closed a fair bit admittedly since Windows switched away from their dumb app scheme from Windows 8. Macbook track pad hits completely different as well. I would never buy an apple desktop though, but as far self contained electronics go, apple products have always been better for me. And the price premium comes out in the wash basically over the lifetime of the device.
Like all these companies suck ass ethically. Google, microsoft, and Apple are all operating on a completely different tier of evil tbh. So as long as you need to have these things, you might as well just go with what you prefer. But acting like we're enlightened for whichever OS and machine we prefer is the real boomer mindset, not having a preference for Apple over Android or Windows.
Sheesh, you weren’t joking about being ‘that guy’ This is bordering on some shit I’d expect to find on the apple subreddit, not an obscure leftist forum.
I’m not acting like I’m ‘enlightened’, the bit about people being ‘smarter in their choices’ or whatever was probably not needed, but I do think people are better than forking over money for a markedly inferior product just so they can have a fruit on the back of their phone. And so other people can recognize them as one of the apple clan ‘Oh dood what model of iPhone do you have dood’?
In all seriousness, I just did not like my experience with an apple phone. Like, it’s all junk with planned obselence right? I’m not going to pay twice that amount for the stupid apple logo on my phone and weaker specs. That is absolutely asinine to me. If you like apple stuff, right on. The experience wasn’t for me, it felt restricted and superficial. Very nice looking products, but there is not much going on under the hood. I think the price premium is ridiculous especially with the lower specs and screen resolution. Frankly though, it doesn’t even matter what I think tbh, a lot or even most people these days can’t afford that shit. So I still have to give it to the various developers of android phones out there, at least a laymen can afford their product. Apple on the other hand I think kind of unapologetically markets itself towards the upper middle class, which is kind of shitty IMO
You’re right, they’re all bad though just there are degrees to how bad each is. I think as far as phones go though, apple is the worst. Don’t care about laptops or any of that stuff as I believe they won’t be around much longer anyways. I think as far as phones go, apple products are a status symbol moreso than a phone.