Okay, this is not an iPhone vs Android Phone debate. I respect your right to choose whichever platform that you want.

I mean, iPhone seems so antithetical with the idea of freedom. You have to connect it to a server to even use it, all apps have to go through a centralized server, no option to install whatever apps you want, which means, you literally cannot have any third-party apps without an online account.

Most of my fellow americans seems to love the idea of freedom so much, yet just buy into a closed ecosystem with no freedom? 🤔

Like almost 60% of Americans use iPhone, kinda weird to preach freedom when you cant even have an app without a corporation’s approval. If it were any other country, I wouldn’t find it weird, but for a country that’s obsessed with the idea of freedom (so much so that they disobeyed mask mandates), it’s really weird to be using a device with zero freedom.

  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I want my phone to be like a gaming console.

    I turn it on, it works. I install curated stuff from a store.

    The hardware is stable and predictable and thus software is of better quality when the developer doesn’t need to test 420 different hardware variants.

    I do not want it to be a Linux PC I need to tinker with every day. I specifically want it to prevent me from fucking with it.

    EDIT: I also have “adult money” so I can get any phone I want, I don’t need to get the cheapest.