• SternburgExport@feddit.de
    83·
    11 个月前

    Flexing with phones is weird af. People spend 1000 bucks on a phone and do the same shit that a phone for the quarter of the price can do.

  • Eylrid@lemmy.world
    581·
    11 个月前

    You know it’s funny, I use android and I’ve never seen a single green bubble. Weird, huh?

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      11 个月前

      My bubbles can be any color I want them to be and I change them weekly according to my mood.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      11 个月前

      ‘course, people would get over color pretty quickly.

      By default with no prior coordination, iPhonies expect:

      • High-quality photos/videos
      • Renamable group chats
      • Typing indicators
      • Read receipts
      • One-click group audio/video calls
      • Shared names & contact photos
      • Stickers
      • Screen sharing
      • Message reactions (good improvement, Android, here)

      They can also expect:

      • Use over WiFi, free internationally
      • Apple Pay & iMessage app integration
      • Messaging from other devices or via voice
      • Encryption

      If you’re not in North America, remember, we haven’t all agreed it’s easy to use What’sZuck or secure to use Signal. Convincing users to adopt a particular messenger is work for the more technical, the more opinionated - and whoever convinced you to download one app may not have convinced that girl at the bar to download the same one.

      Apple is aware kids get left out of group chats in the US, but lets them get bullied for profit. Support next-generation interoperable messaging Tim! The collective time and mental power exerted on evaluating different messengers, remembering which group chat is on which platform, and on this debate must be staggering.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    471·
    11 个月前

    I don’t know what iPhone glass is but it feels like even if iPhone users are a minority, the only people I see with broken screens are iPhone users… A friend of mine even broke his screen the same day he bought his phone and just lived with it like that for a year…

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      291·
      11 个月前

      Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some people who have iPhones as status symbols can’t afford to replace them if the screen breaks. Whereas someone who doesn’t care about brands can easily swap a broken Android for another budget phone.

      • Strykker@programming.dev
        231·
        11 个月前

        And also replacing a screen on android phones doesn’t cost the full value of the phone again. But apple makes it so doing the repair on an iPhone you might as well just buy a new iPhone instead.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        11 个月前

        I put fairly cheap glass screen protectors on my phone, break one every 6 months or so, peel it off and replace it.

        I bought my S10e on launch day and both front and back glass are intact.

        Meanwhile, I see a LOT of iPhones in service that look like they’ve been jack hammered, to the point I wonder how you swipe on the touch screen without slicing your thumb open.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
    20·
    11 个月前

    It took me far too long to realise that was a hoop earing and not a circle that the red arrow was pointing to that was meant to be showing me something… 😂😂

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    81·
    11 个月前

    Well at least my beat-up phone from 2018 runs mainline linux

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      I envy you! I also had a Samsung Galaxy Note II secondary phone running postmarketOS until fairly recently, but the experience was pretty unusable and I put free and open-source Android (AOSP) back on it approximately 1.5 months ago.

      • fl42v@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 个月前

        Yeah, about that… I never said it was exactly stable :) Although that may at least partly be due to me messing with mobile-nixos and not postmarket. So far the sound and mic have been acting a bit, but that’s probably due to misconfiguration on my part.

        On the other hand, waydroid works pretty damn well, so I don’t really see the reason in flashing back android

  • wildn0x@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 个月前

    Every commercial I see is companies giving iPhones away for free. It’s now at a point where I had to pay extra to avoid getting an iPhone.

  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 个月前

    I’m always proud to tell people I bought a refurbished flagship phone from 2 years ago at 1/8 the price (without mentioning price) when they see how good my pictures look. I’m currently rocking Google’s spyware known as the Pixel 7 pro.

    • danikpapas@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 个月前

      Look into grapheneos, it has almost the same features as vanilla google android. The few things it lacks are google auto (i don’t drive), google pay (i don’t wanna pay shit anyway)

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    1·
    11 个月前

    Reminds me of a very old post, back when iphone5 was released:

    • I’m getting the new iphone
    • Why? So girls can ignore you in higher quality?