The great phone debate: IPhone vs. Android. Which do you prefer and why?
@Valkyrie_D: Better phones all-around. iPhone, iWatch, iPad, and Mac all talk to one another and share important features seamlessly.
@thedisasterautist @Valkyrie_D That feature becomes much less impressive once you find out they built it for the explicit purpose of pursuing vendor lock-in.
I wish the mobile OS market was more diversified, though - it'd be nice if instead of 2 major usable options, there were... IDK, 12.
IMHO, Apple's walled garden & anti-consumer practices are lame... & Google's everything-written-in-Java "wonderland" of software inefficiency annoys me.
More options would force them to make better systems.
@IrelandTorin @Valkyrie_D: I'm buying and using my computers and peripherals for me. Also, I don't use loads of different apps and other software whatnottery, as my tech use is minimal and practical. So if vendors get locked in that is on them, and I don't find Apple's practice in any way less impressive for it. If they are indeed practicing legally actionable anti-consumer practices, then by all means, they should be held to account. As for the walled garden, that's eminently superior to...
@IrelandTorin @Valkyrie_D: ...Google's comically under-curated and laughably cyberinsecure "Javaland", at least as far as I am concerned.
Microsoft waited years and years too late to come out with their Windows Phone, and I had one and dug it well enough, but oh well.
Apple's slid noticeably on quality since Steve died, and I say that as a general "Steve's a real asshole" person for years and years. But they're still better than Google anything, FMM.
Alas, I only work with what tech is...
@IrelandTorin @Valkyrie_D: ...available, not what could've been if someone somewhere at some time had done something different or something. Yeah, more options would be better, but we do not have them, and at least as far as I am concerned, I cannot invent them or even invest in any candidates. So it's above my pay-grade, and I don't worry about it.
@thedisasterautist @Valkyrie_D Presumably you could also use KDE Plasma Mobile on Gentoo running on ARM, but that would probably be considerably more of a headache to set up... even if for no other reason than because Gentoo.
@IrelandTorin @Valkyrie_D: I’ve heard of the Linux and OpenSUSE ARMs.
@thedisasterautist @Valkyrie_D Well, technically speaking there is a third alternative (or a whole spectrum of alternatives, depending on how you count), but it's... well, last I heard, it wasn't exactly the most polished experience out there. Yet. Although that could've changed since I last checked - that was a while ago.
I'm talking about non-Android linux distros targeting smartphones.
A few that come to mind: PostmarketOS, Mobian, Arch Linux ARM, and OpenSUSE ARM.