• Brumefey
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    022 days ago

    I don’t get the argument. It’s not like you are forced to buy iPhones, there a plenty of brands available. According to recent data iOS is 30% of the market while android is almost 70% (in Europe). I used android phones for most of my life. I tried to install alternative OS few time but my banking apps all refused to execute. There were always plenty of apps that were forbidden to remove (Facebook, Samsung applications,…). Then 4 years ago I bought an iPhone. No preinstalled shitty news app, Facebook, etc. Was even able to uninstall the default apps that I do not use. I feel to have much more freedom than before. Apple is not perfect by any means but it’s far from being a prison.

    • @noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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      022 days ago

      as long as you don’t want to do some crazy unthinkable thing, like, say, getting notifications on your smartwatch that isn’t made by Apple

    • xigoi
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      021 days ago

      My Android phone (Realme) allowed me to uninstall most pre-installed bloatware.

    • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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      021 days ago

      Yea, now try to get away from apple again

      They have me as well, because I am connected with my family through various apple only features now. Apple One, apple family share, location sharing with family, mail service, photos in the cloud, and a lot more

      My family would rather gift me an iPhone than switching all to FOSS services, hell, even only switching my GF to not iOS is pain.

    • @fxdave@lemmy.ml
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      021 days ago

      Does Apple advertise themselves as “we will disrespect our customers”? No? Then they should be banned from the market for matket fraud. Enforcing openness is just a soft way to handle that…

      My mum had the choice not to buy Apple, but she did because she thought it’s good, but it’s bad, so it wasn’t advertised correctly.

    • Krik
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      22 days ago

      From a market regulation view it is more of a prison than Android.
      An example is apps have to use WebKit. That’s right Firefox for iOS doesn’t use Gecko and Google Chrome for iOS doesn’t use Chromium. - That’s the walled garden.