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Does anyone actually prefer Android over iOS? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

I hate Android with a bloodcurdling passion but yes.

Apple has the most condescending design philosophy I know of and I will never tolerate the degree of suffocation Apple imposes on devices you have purchased and own.

Also Android has F-Droid which makes Android categorically superior to iOS.

https://f-droid.org/en/

Get all of your core basic apps like flashlight apps, image gallery apps, file browser apps etc... from F-Droid.

Samsung? I hate samsung and yet I have an older used flagship samsung phone and ultimately that is what I recommend doing with Android, always buy near top of the line phones (samsung or otherwise), just go used and older until you hit a price point you are comfortable with. This reduces the headaches you will run into with Android a lot since you are always getting the experience Android was meant to give and that designers focused on especially when it comes to the hardware and camera + camera app.

I recommend Swappa for buying used electronics/phones since the website is dedicated to only those kinds of sales and provides a lot of confidence and comfort vs. buying off a random ebay seller.

https://swappa.com/

edit ALSO on Android you can change your launcher/homescreen, the idea that you can't do this on iOS blows my mind even though it doesn't surprise me..

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Unfun fact: Google will soon force all developers to identify themselves to Google before running their app; this applies to f-droid.

    I think modded android will be able to get around it, at least for now.

    Hopefully the more Google tightens its grasp, the more users will slip between their fingers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Oh yeah, I am livid about that ughh.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The future is inevitably FOSS. Governments & corporations like to keep their secrets too much to let US-centric companies keep backdoors into their every system.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes but part of the selling point a lot of the time does perversely come back to US-centric companies providing the leaders of Governments and Corporations a Backdoor-As-A-Service product to force upon those lower down in the pecking order.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The only possible way Google can block installing apps from F-Droid (and other app stores) is to have software on the phone that scans apps as they are being installed.

    I doubt if modded OSs will ever have that software. If the devs of custom roms are too lazy to remove the junk they will not have many users.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I recommend Swappa

    I second this. Every phone I've bought in the past 3-4 years has come from Swappa.

    Coming from someone who worked at a cell phone store for nearly 10 years: Buying your phone from the network provider is probably the dumbest way to do it.

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