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Ok-disaster2022 t1_j02r7ei wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in iPhone 14 Crash Detection gets man to wife's accident before ambulance by chrisdh79

Honestly, these kinds of features make me almost want to finally buy an apple device, but then I recall I don't want to create an apple account.

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HillarysFloppyChode t1_j03jni6 wrote

I used to be hard core android, but honestly iPhones are just better. No half baked features with a bloat filled OS over it and I Always get the latest updates, the carrier doesn't control them.

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Bonus, when I did the Satellite SOS demo, one of the options is towing and breakdowns, thats useful as fuck.

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cichlidassassin t1_j041eyt wrote

your entire first paragraph is just....buy a pixel

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your second paragraph, the Sat stuff is cool

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BuriedUnderTheDirt t1_j04d9fa wrote

The whole basic idea of a phone is to make calls and send text messages

Everything else is just a nice to have

The google pixel is well known for a having a glitch that disables calling, I think to emergency lines only but thats worse.

So its a phone that can glitch out and disable half the phones primary functions

And its like they keep fixing it but it keeps coming back, by this point I wouldn’t be surprised if pixel is on the way to the google graveyard

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Shadycrazyman t1_j02ytq3 wrote

Why not?

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TheBarkingFish t1_j031i67 wrote

Their app store is hyper restrictive.

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SirBeercules t1_j033pd6 wrote

what are u needing that's restricted by the apple app store?

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johnny_fives_555 t1_j035a0a wrote

Pornhub app and probably some kodi variant for pirated content.

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GnomeOnALeash t1_j03c1zl wrote

Can’t argue with that.

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johnny_fives_555 t1_j03cc04 wrote

And frankly unlike 2010, you can achieve an app experience w/ mobile sites. You really can do it all w/ an iOS device. Including playing and saving emulated games.

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User9705 t1_j03lfzq wrote

I just play remote steam and call it a day with a pa5 controller via iPhone, iPad and Apple TV

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Tyfyter2002 t1_j03kr8y wrote

Customization, apps made by developers with limited budgets, support for all file types, and even apps which aren't allowed on any app store like YouTube Vanced

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Itsallgood190 t1_j032a3u wrote

I have iPhone and Android tablet. Problem solved

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User9705 t1_j03ln66 wrote

I have an iPhone and two android phones. I turn the android phones on, update them, play with them and then Reminds me why I don’t use them. It’s a 90 days typical cycle.

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TheBarkingFish t1_j032h66 wrote

Okay? Did you want a prize?

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Itsallgood190 t1_j032ll5 wrote

I’m just giving a suggestion for someone who made it appear that it was impossible to have the best of both worlds.

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BroMatterhorn t1_j033lnu wrote

Sure, but it’s a pretty good one still. This isn’t 2010 where you want a new app every day, most people already know what apps they need and every once in a while, might get a new one if it’s popular.

For the 0.01% you can’t get via the App Store, there are “work arounds” already if you need them.

At the end of the day all the app stores kind of suck for some reason or another.

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0verlimit t1_j035d4v wrote

I’m surprised people care that much about apps nowadays. I’ve definitely tapered down from years ago where I was going crazy with phone games and just pretty much only use social media apps nowadays.

I remember I used to be crazy with stuff like widgets and themes when I had an android or jailbroken iphones but I realized I can’t be bothered to do any of that anymore.

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Pixelatorx2 t1_j0399jf wrote

Yeah, most people nowadays have had phones for long enough that there isn't much novelty to messing around with apps or widgets.

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Personally, even though Apple has mostly caught up with respect to hardware, there are still quite a few software features Apple does not support:

  • FireFox mobile adblocker
  • Game emulation
  • Root access
  • Support for more USB devices
  • Always-On-Display tweaks
  • YouTube Vanced

If they fixed some of these, it'd be a much closer decision.

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lowtoiletsitter t1_j03wmbp wrote

You can download FireFox and integrate the adblocker into safari (unless we're talking about two different things/situations)

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Pixelatorx2 t1_j03yzg9 wrote

Oh, cool. I didn't know Safari had an adblocker, that's pretty neat. I still don't think that solution allows for Firefox w/ adblocker, which is what I use on desktop / android, so I'd want my data to sync.

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lowtoiletsitter t1_j041wax wrote

Yeah safari integration is adblock only, but you can just use FireFox on its own and it'll sync. If you want to use FF as your default browser you can do that too

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