Considering I’ve reached the point where for the first time in my life at the end a 2 week cycle SOMETHING is left over even if just a little bit? Yes.
Who is unsuspecting? I choose to use a iPhone because:
It is a closed ecosystem, a billion apps is enough for me. I wanted to be able to update the phone for many years I didn’t want to have preinstalled 3rd party bloatware I wanted a device that was less prone to malware
Android is a great OS, and it is better in some areas than iOS, but nothing particularly important to me.
Only Americans are concerned about green and blue bubbles. If it’s so upsetting to you, use WhatsApp. Don’t blame Apple because Google couldn’t standardise on a single messaging app for more than 5 minutes.
Using Google devices and pointing at Apple and saying “they’re evil, don’t use them” is laughable. They’re all bad companies, no organisation should be worth trillions.
I wanna throw in my 2 cents as I’m considering getting an iPhone after only ever using Android
Recently I’ve started noticing how much disrespect for your time and attention I’ve experienced on Android. It’s not so much Android itself, but the ecosystem around it:
A layer of bloatware from most major manufacturers
The Play Store and Samsung store trying their hardest to sell you some bullshit app with the most obnoxious clickbait banner.
My Samsung phone forcing me to install some random apps I don’t want with a prompt that I can’t dismiss.
Google or Samsung (I can’t remember which) trying to get me to agree to personalised ads by presenting it as if it’s a ‘we’ve updated our terms’ type prompt.
Google ads being generally annoying.
And more general malware-like behaviour trying to sell me shit. I don’t care.
I’m not my grandma who’s just going to blindly fall for whatever slight of hand that gets them 10c when I install some borderline malware app, it’s just annoying. I just want a phone that’s reasonably powerful, and works.
Android itself is great, and I’ve been able to improve the experience by using an ad blocker and f-droid where possible, but it’s rough. I can’t install a custom ROM as my banking apps don’t work if I do :////
I hate looking up to Apple as a solution here as they’re do a bunch of shitty things
I pretty much agree with all of that but wanted to add that when BlackBerry BB10 was discontinued (miss you, Z30) I had the option of Microsoft, Google or Apple. I chose the least bad of a poor bunch… The original monopolists or an ad-obsessed stalker were of no interest to me.
I do sometimes but I usually carry my phone. Sometimes for music, sometimes just got emergencies.
There’s not a lot of good walking weather in my area though. So it isn’t common for me. Spring and Fall are fairly short now, and summer/winter is usually too hot.
What kind of climate do you live in? I’m curious what area you’re in where the outdoors is too unforgiving. I love walking on doors in any kind of weather, although I understand if it’s prohibitively hot and cold someone wouldn’t want to walk in that kind of weather. I often keep my phone on me too, but I find myself so distracted by nature and the change of scenery in general that I don’t even think to look at it. It’s pretty easy for me to disconnect for hours at a time, if not just to make sure that my family hasn’t messaged me for something important.
You can probably infer the climate from my instance name.
Canada.
This year, winter has been pretty unpredictable. We had a bout of 10C weather, bookended by snowfall both before and after, all within about two weeks… The rest of the season has been equally unusual. Summer last year went into the 30C range, far too warm too be comfortable outside no matter what you’re wearing.
Most winters are well below freezing. This year was very strange.
Spring and Fall are usually nice walking weather, but the last few years it seems like both spring and Fall temperatures have been a “blink and you’ll miss it” kind of deal. It sticks around for maybe two weeks then straight into summer/winter.
Global climate change is really screwing with my ability to enjoy the outdoors.
Pass, The sound my spine makes while sitting "properly" is a sign this is wrong. I will continue sitting like a tied up pair of pants fresh out of the drier, and you can't stop me.
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