• TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is a US company, that likely helps a little. They are expensive. In many countries 55% could not afford them. Easy access to Apple stores to fix issues is a massive advantage.

    Anecdotally, my friends and family that have switched have done so because of malware. Apple is far from perfect, but Google has done a terrible job of keeping bad apps out of the Play store. And malicious software has other ways of getting installed. My sister was a diehard Samsung user, but reluctantly bought an iPhone when she started getting porn pop ups and her and none of her friends could figure out how to stop them.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like a your sister thing, never got smth like that and you also wont get it without installing smth

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        She probably isn’t a perfect tech user, and installed an app that she shouldn’t.

        But iphone users don’t usually have this problem anyway so sister still ends up benefiting from that ecosystem.

        Google needs to stay more on top of the app store. It’s clear they never had the man power to actually police it well.

        There are benefits to that as well, apps that enabled features that carriers didn’t want to be enabled used to be pretty popular. Not to mention the benefit of being able to side load apps if you are a power user.

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          It literally gives you a bright red warning full screen that you have to read and only can accept after waiting 10 seconds, shes just ignoring it, thats her problem ngl

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            1 year ago

            Wait. I’ve never seen this screen? Are you saying that the play store has a bright red warning like you’ve described?

            I’m talking about the play store, the official store, which has sometimes hosted adware and malware.

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      1 year ago

      iPhones have tones of pop up in the browser also. Don’t even know how many times I get calls from my parents about some sort of pop up on their phones.