Yes, I’m the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I’m sorry.

But other than that, I don’t hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

          • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I don’t like Apple. Though unfortunately, the iPad is the only useful consumer tablet imo. Android tablets seem to only be good for like integrated uses like a construction tablet with custom software.

            • Micromot@feddit.deEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              And i would love my Ipad even more if i could have the option to install a custom rom to have the customization options that i just loose with ipados

    • infotainment@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      I still haven’t quite forgiven Google for abandoning owners of the Nexus 5X the second the Pixel came out…

      • kamenLady.@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I kept my Nexus 5X until Pixel 4a came out. That was a good phone. I was lucky that the refurbished i got, after suffering the dead after phone too hot demise, actually lasted and it’s still alive as second phone, if needed. Custom ROMs were still a thing. I miss then sometimes or rather i sometimes miss the custom ROM community. Some very dedicated people, lots of asshats and always noobs asking the kind of questions everyone loved.

        • datendefekt@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I hope the Pixel 4a is an outlier regarding support! The 4a will be getting updates until August 2023, and the 4a 5g until November of this year.

      • tooting_lemmy@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I had a Nexus 10 they abandoned after two years. Made me never want to spend money on an android tablet again. Honestly I would probably switch to iOS if I could have ad blockers.

        • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          You’ve been able to get ad blockers on iOS for years at this point, they call them “content blockers”. They’re not as full featured as those on android though.

      • GeneralBoop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The 5X was such a garbage device that it makes sense that they’d try to sweep that trash under the rug. I swear I was getting barely more than 40 minutes SoT and it would get stupidly hot if you tried to do anything on it.

        I was so happy with my Pixel 1 purchase, Pixel 2 was also a treat. And then I switched to iPhone in 2018 because Google pissed me off when they insisted that the half pink screen on my Pixel 3 was normal and acceptable. I’ve had an iPhone as my daily ever since, but have tried every Pixel since and currently own a 7 as a backup phone.

        But the iPhone experience is still overall better, especially since CarPlay is still rock solid compared to Android Auto, which was one of my absolute deciding factors. Apollo was too, but now that’s gone, so if Google could make wireless Android Auto not turn my Pixel 7 into a furnace and improve the battery life in general further for the Pixel 8, I could see me returning to Android.

          • Micromot@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            If you use the stock rom, if you install a custom one you get updates as long as the developers continue working which is quite a pong time for some of the ROMs that exist right now

        • GeneralBoop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          However you have to take into consideration what the OS updates do on each device.

          On iOS, an update also updates all the system apps, meaning Safari, Maps, weather, notes, mail, health, photos, the calculator and so on are hyper dependent on having OS updates for a long time.

          On Android, all of those system apps are updated via the play store, and a lot of deeper features can be updated via Google Play services similarly to how Nearby share was able to be back ported to any Android device running 6.0 or newer when it came out recently. Full OS updates are still important for Android, but they aren’t nearly as critical to the overall user experience.

          I use an iPhone, but I’d love them to move all system app updates into the App Store for more frequent updates. The only plus side to the way Apple does it is that everyone gets the update at the same time and you don’t have annoying staged rollouts like you do with Google apps.

    • XpeeN@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      Also, custom ROMs are great on supported phones, even after the official OTAs gone