Whenever I see people whining about Apple I always think: just buy a fucking Android.
But then I read that in the US teens are practically bullied into suicide for not owning an iPhone so maybe it's not that simple? Apple never appealed to me in the slightest and there isn't an iMessage cult in Europe.
>Whenever I see people whining about Apple I always think: just buy a fucking Android.
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It is not free to switch. I am not on Apple phones but I own a PlayStation, if/when Sony screws me over I can't move my swap my fingers and my PS4 transforms into an XBOX and my games are transferred. To switch over you need to sell your old device, buy a new one, then buy again most of the applications/games. If you have some cloud integration you will probably have to sort that out too, cancel subscriptions, move/backup your data etc.
On a different topic I think that if I pay the full price on a console then I own it and I should have the right to unlock it, they can ban me from multiplayer games if they can't trust the OS but I should have an unlock code.
I have problems with android, namely on data privacy (which until recently apple were the big player kings of in the mobile space). Switching isn't that easy, theres a lot of considerations and wins and losses you have to account for. For example, I wanted the increased privacy, I didn't want to lose type-c or the headphone jack. I might have eventually concided one thing or the other, but that takes time to decide.
As for the imessage issue, I don't think its as bad as suicide, but I too was absolutely shocked about how serious that was. I always knew about it as a joke but I thought it was just that. Even stranger, I've spoke to people with this attitude, and none of them were aware of the advantages (which there certainly are) of an imessage only chat. Its purely about the bubbles and their colour. Absolutely mad
But then I read that in the US teens are practically bullied into suicide for not owning an iPhone so maybe it's not that simple? Apple never appealed to me in the slightest and there isn't an iMessage cult in Europe.