It's the truth. Go to Africa, go to South America, a bunch of places, people running businesses and whatnot off their phones. Hardly anyone uses iOS outside a few rich countries. Because most people use them to do stuff, so most open/ubiquitous (and yes cheap) wins.
People somehow worried about an OS given away for free that is still the #1 OS of all user devices including desktops...
I said the open, cheap and ubiquitous nature gets it into the hands of people who care about doing things. The implication is not that you can do more rather that you can do the same without spending as much on an iPhone (especially since in most of the world people buy devices outright).
And it's the truth. You can do the same with a $400 Android as a top of the line Samsung/Apple device save some games...
I've always used Android, thinking that it would improve with age. But eventually I had to face the fact that Android is always going to suck. On top of that every year it gets more and more locked down. Why not buy an iphone instead? At least it works well.
Performance, battery life, dependence on Google, inconsistent UIs from different manufacturers, bloatware from networks, networks control updates, most phones don't even get much in the way of updates.
This is always interesting. I don't even buy phones anymore if they don't support Lineageos. It fixes all those issues. It still surprises me when I see stock Samsung devices and how utterly rubbish they are. And they are sold as premium flagship devices. The amount of bloat and garbage is incredible.
Oh sure. All that was typed by a lineageos user. But such a small minority is likely to use that in the grand scheme. Hence why I thought it relevant to evaluate the "stock firmware".
Browsing the web, using normal apps. Things are just snappier on iOS in my experience. It is not a big deal. But it is one area that android could be improved.
I don't think that was his point. Companies take features from competitors all the time.
But even with that "feature sharing", Android's flagship phone still feels like more of a knockoff compared to any iPhone.
Having owned every Pixel and the Nexus predecessors, they have about a 3 year lifespan, software is slow and freezes start after a few updates, the battery isn't great to start but shits out after year 2, then oled burn-ins.
But I got $5 for my Nexus 6P bootloop class action settlement, so there's that I guess...
I just said I'm not a fan of _any_ politics on a tech forum. I do not spread my political beliefs on HN.
Talking politics is, together with discussing your favourite football team or religion, the lowest form of intellectualism: if you agree, it's an echo chamber, if you don't, we're just talking past each other.
> So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.
> They have a law criminalizing offending religious feelings.
Happens in the first world too! 2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad."
I know it does. It’s a matter of degree. How bad does the threat to free expression have to be before a society is not a functional democracy? It’s a judgement call.
Although I know what you meant by 1st world (e.g. Western Europe / N. America), I found it funny because technically Austria isn’t in the first world and never has been. Since it never aligned itself with the US, Austria was considered a 3rd world country just like Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Hungry and Mexico.
I think this is one of those things that is learned through experience (wisdom) and will never be proven with any citations (i.e. peer-reviewed, rigorous collective experience).
Not that I have that wisdom myself. I only think I might arrive at that conclusion eventually.
