How the heck does Google lose this but apple win it? Not that funny. Weird news.

This US problem with iMessage always sounds so bizarre to me

Fuck. I sent a comment with my old account.

This is amazing. I’m the future, I’'d like to try this on old books I’ve read in the past just to check

Yeah, not possible as of now imo

This is something I’ve been interested in as well lol

Seems like it’s required by google admob to show any ads at all according to dev. Closed sourced software with an ad version option is becoming a nightmare for foss folks. Those devs don’t seem to have many options anymore to profit from their work in a privacy friendly way. A bit concerning.

I’m all for devs wanting to profit from their work since they are putting work into it and not everyone wants to open source the work they put countless hours into. Foss only folks have many other options compared to reddit where the number of popular open source apps aren’t that many.

But ad versions sadly seems to be very privacy unfriendly right now.

I know that I’m not on reddit…

I’m just pointing out the boost subreddit from reddit never got this many comments in any posts. I know the reason is federation and people sorting by ALL here often compared to sorting by subscriptions in reddit

Over 300 comments…I’ve never even seen so many in boost subreddit wtf. Did everyone from lemmy come here?

I have been getting onlyfans bots in my dms last few weeks as well.

Sideloading:

1. I’d be restricted to the apps on the app store that have to restrict themselves to the app store policies.

2. I wouldn’t have an alternative way to download an app if it gets banned from the app store for any reason. I remember hearing about Fortnite getting banned from both app store and play store but android users can still play it.

3. I couldn’t use modified apps like revanced.

4. I think you’d be restricted to region locks in app store which you can circumvent on play store by running a vpn, force stopping play store and then clearing data on it.

5. Being restricted to app store only means some extraordinary apps wouldn’t be developed like the cool apps on android that aren’t on play store.

6. Sometimes developers make different versions of the same apps. One is a bit restricted and is for play store. It’s restricted because it has to follow play store policies. The other version ends up having more features. I don’t see this happening on iOS. I heard about EU asking them to make a way to sideload, but I also heard that that might be restricted to EU only which means it wouldn’t pick up as much as it could.

Aesthetics:

Nothing much to say except I don’t like the iOS ui. I even fine it ugly. I much prefer the material you thing android is doing.

Lack of your own choice:

1. Apple decides for its users. They removed headphone jacks and then the sim card thing in US for no reason. Since they only have flagships, that’s all the users are restricted to.

Android flagships sadly seem to follow their example soon enough

2. All the browsers on iOS are just reskinned safari.

General bias:

I don’t like apple handles their things and many of their users. That affects my decision so I think I should put it here as a reason. I don’t think I have to mention what apple does but for their users, I live in Asia and a lot of people see iphones as a status thing which I find annoying. Feels like a matter of shoving cash in your face to flex. There’s also the bubble thing I hear in US which I find ridiculous.

Other points:

1. No back button

2. No revanced.

3. Ecosystem locked.

4. Only expensive phones.

But they don’t seem to be the majority or have the iMessage issue which is the main problem. I live in Asia myself and know about the status thing.

It’s US only so it doesn’t matter to the rest of the world. I don’t understand how it became like that there.