@skylar@RustyCrab You have a much better experience on a legally purchased 200 Android phone than equivalently priced iPhone. We have both in my household. This is a gay thing to fight over imo.
@BowsacNoodle@skylar idk dawg a $200 android phone is pretty bad. Through a very complicated mixup my carrier sent me a really cheap one for free and it's literally unusable. You try to open the web browser and it just shits itself for 10 minutes straight trying to load the home page
@RustyCrab@skylar Depends which one. OnePlus Nord30 SE will be out soon for probably $200ish and it will be very fast. Unfortunately there's a huge quality difference between brands, especially at the lower price band. Go up to $300 and things really open up.
@skylar@RustyCrab >bloated code to completely counteract all improvements in hardware performance Hot take but what if this is capitalism doing a sneaky workaround against planned obsolescence laws? As a bonus they get cheaper code and can claim DEI.
@BowsacNoodle@RustyCrab at this point i'd expect anyone's $200 phone to be a huge piece of shit, just like anyone's $500 laptop there are millions of pajeets who go to work every day to crank out enough shitty bloated code to completely counteract all improvements in hardware performance
@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle all you need to do is to be able to call/text someone and browse internet. My 150€ Samsung A8 2018 can do that and its not shit. If you need more than this then youre a nigger and you should hang on the lamp post
@sapphire@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle well i have been cursed with one of these new iphones for work and you're wrong about all of that + there's some nonsense with the corners that moves where the fucking menus are it was a bad design choice and you're coping with getting scammed out of your button
@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle >FaceID sucks balls no it doesn't, I only have to recalibrate it when I make drastic changes to my face (shaving a beard off, new glasses etc) and I can use it with gloves on which is way more important >only works when the screen is pointed directly at you I have like 60 degrees on either side of directly at me where it works >opens the home screen only if you swipe up, just like if you press the home button instead of just resting your thumb on it it opens your home screen. If you just tap the screen (or, on newer phones with AOD, just look at it) it shows notifs
@sapphire@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle nah it's too different and therefore sucks also faceID sucks donkey balls and only works when you're the screen is pointed directly at you, and then it opens the home screen instead of just unlocking to show notifications, very annoying! the fingerprint button is easy to use and does what you want all the time.
i have more foxgirls and hate than you have reasons to move buttons
@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle you literally just swipe up a little to close the app or swipe up a lot to switch apps, its not hard if you're not niggerbrained
you don't need a fingerprint button because faceID exists
@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle you literally just swipe up instead of pressing down it took me 2 seconds to get used to it when I upgraded to the X 30 years ago
@sapphire@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle well i don't like it where's the fingerprint button? how do you double press to switch or close an app? it should work exactly the same as the old one did, none of this "swipe" nonsense
@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar so is a $200 iPhone but that's also a horrible price point comparison. get to $450 and the iPhone is a clear winner with the SE
@sapphire@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle >the SE kept the buttons where they belong rather than moving to the retarded no home button design of the iphone X-whatever based
@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar Yeah but you can actually buy a $200ish dollar Android that's good. You can't really do that with an iPhone. >just spend more than $250 extra Nah. Bought my wife a nicer high end iPhone, and I'm fine with my Ching Chong Chinese Android.
@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar I could have disagreed with you two years ago but thanks to JOE BRANDON DEMONRAT INFLATION, that's unfortunately true. But really there's not much difference between "limitations you can stand" and "good" in the phone world.
@BowsacNoodle@RustyCrab@skylar no you can't lol, you can buy an Android whose limitations you can stand, but you can't buy a "good" 200 dollar phone new anymore.
@sapphire@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle ive only had faceid not work on me at very odd angles at night while wearing a beanie or any other hat. other than that, werks on my machine. also the optical fingerprint sensors on pixels are obscenely awful.
@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar My android is leaps and bounds better than the cheap iPhone even at over 3 years old. Its zero comparison. I prefer the UI of Android and the ability to easily modify stuff and side load apps. Yes I actually do that. We have both devices because both are good for our needs. High end, apple makes the best devices until you get into niche use case territory. It's still a stupid thing to argue over.
@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar >Hah good luck having a standardized thing with the change in phones He says to the man who uses custom UIs, side loaded apps, etc. Although I am still pissed that they switched the location of the menu and back buttons years ago and nobody can tell me why. >iOS has better apps GENERALLY true.
@BowsacNoodle@RustyCrab@skylar >I prefer the UI your loss, and good luck keeping a standardized one when changing phones >ability to easily modify stuff like what? >ability to sideload apps you can do this on iOS but its usually not necessary because the Apple app store actually has usable apps instead of pajeet shovelware
@RustyCrab@kf01@BowsacNoodle@ferrarilegends@skylar the only things that get vacuumed up on my phone to a cloud server are things I choose, its not like Google where they're sampling your texts or casual off-phone conversations for advertising.
@sapphire@kf01@BowsacNoodle@ferrarilegends@skylar I know I'm a big privacy oddball but I ask this question sincerely: does everything you do on your phone being vacuumed up to a cloud server not bother you?
I wouldn't have any issue with iphones if I could install custom roms. (Yes I know about hardware compromise/base bands yadda yadda)
@BowsacNoodle@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar How do you sideload apps on iOS? Just get a developer account so fapple tells your phone that you're a might coder and allow you?
@BowsacNoodle@kf01@RustyCrab@ferrarilegends@skylar >lose all the Google services >have to install pajeet shovelware to get basic functionality I get out of the box on iPhone >all to trade one spy for another
@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar >just own nothing and rent your phone forever, goyim. Don't forget the mandatory (((insurance))) so your easily cracked glass bodied device isn't worthless!
@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle even if you get the most expensive iPhone (with base storage) and upgrade every 2 years you're looking at like $300 a year after trade in or much less if you want to try to sell the phone
@skylar@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle for $25 a month in perpetuity I never have to deal with my phone breaking and I still pay less per month than most people do on their phone plan
@Groomschild@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar I'm not buying a $400 phone so false equivalency. Even if I wanted a niggerphone I'd still finance it for $5 a month or whatever they wanted because again, it makes sense
@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar Their margins are huge, and they have a TON of cash. They'd rather by more raw material hardware for the same reason you or I want to finance at 0%.
@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar >pay 1200 dollars now vs >pay $30 a month with money that grows more worthless each day because Apple is dumb enough to give you no interest no fee financing on a phone
@sapphire@BowsacNoodle@skylar if you can slap down the cash for it I have never understood financing. The strings attached are a giant pain in the ass.
The store cards etc that offer you financing are just trying to get you to buy high margin electronics without being able to afford them right now, and I'm ok with abusing that
@sapphire@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar It's totally shit as a business phone, i usually get forwarded data couple times per month, data incompatible with iPhone for one reason or another for reformatting.
@white_male@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar I've literally never had to because I don't have to dig through 37 pages of borderline viruses on the app store to find something that does the thing I need it to
@white_male@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar yes, you don't even have to pay for it anymore, they separated out the app store publishing to the paid dev account and the rest is just free
@Groomschild@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar Carriers and apple store don't. They just want your payment and encourage auto pay. It's a scam because you're paying to be locked to their service if bought at a phone store, but it's not really since you can just walk away whenever and pay to have your device unlocked or I think apple you can just switch for like however much the cost of a new virtual sim is (super gay they make you pay money for a digital sim).
@BowsacNoodle@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar I'm telling you, one retard in the ecosystem got one couple years ago and started pushing it on the rest. Now they all continue buying it because "social pressure", like it's a status signifier. We laugh at such people often on poast for one reason or another, but actually encountering such mindsets in the wild is crazy.
@white_male@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar Hence my original post; it doesn't matter what you buy as long as it's not bottom of the barrel. You can get a decent budget iPhone or Android. You can get a really high end one of either too. That people get sports team loyal about this is gay. It's a brand and you should buy the best one for your use case. For mine, it's Android. For my wife, apple. I've switched before, and so has she. It's not that big of a deal and people who think it is have bigger problems or a very autistic understanding of the world.
@sapphire@RustyCrab@BowsacNoodle@skylar No fucking way you're that dumb to pull this argument. ;D People have half functional, but "top tier" and premium price tech that fails at somewhat basic tasks. Better buy an ipad or a fagbook dude. What? You're too poor? AHAHA
Especially if my goddamn job is asking me to do these things, I make sure they provide me to do the tools required
you: wow this nail is really hard to drive with this measuring tape me: wow your job didn't give you a hammer you: LOL LOOK AT THIS NIGGER CALLING ME POOR FOR NOT HAVING A HAMMER
@white_male@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar Probably because Android phones often require you to problem solve in ways more like a traditional computer. That is not a good thing from a user perspective either.
@BowsacNoodle@sapphire@RustyCrab@skylar No, without problem doxing, it's just the edge cases(isn't it always) of how the default apps work. What fapple claims Android does better.
I want a folding phone with buttons on a keyboard. buttons that move 0.1mm and click when you press them. and a battery that can easily be removed and replaced.