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The blue sms bubble is the greatest marketing psyop in decades
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FTFY
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And the other 12% are poor
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right?! i mean it's not like android phones also cost as much as an iphone or anything.
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You could argue this 10 years ago, but nowadays google has completely crippled most of their android apis in the same way they are doing to chrome.
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It's so much more complicated to root now than it used to be
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if they don't get the phone with the fancy logo they wont BE COOL!!!!
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Imagine using the text app, here in the UK everyone either uses messenger or WhatsApp.
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There is no reason not to buy a used iphone over a new android chinkphone unless you plan to root it or are some kind of "power user" (friendless incel).
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Poorstrags really have NO EXCUSES. I have a $75 burner iphone 6s that still supports blue bubbles.
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The moment iPhones allow emulators and adblockers I might actually consider getting one. However considering they are now adding ads to iOS apps, I'm doubtful.
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you don't need an emulator or a web browser. a phone is not a TOY for you to PLAY with like a CHILD.
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Ya got any games on your phone?
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Only Lichess for rdrama chess tournaments (Every Thursday and Saturday join today!)
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Why would you wanna use emulators on a touch screen device? Touch to analogue control is miserable. Just hack a 3ds or get one of those handheld emulation machines.
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I use a controller, also touchscreen is sufficient for many Gameboy and DS games.
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It’s not perfect but Content Blockers work pretty well. I believe you can get around YouTube ads by forcing it to use the system video player. Though I watch enough I find YT primo worth it.
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-content-blockers-safari/
Emulators actually do work via AltStore side loading, though you have to refresh the app - I believe you need a Dev Account to get unlimited sideloading.
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That sounds like a ton more effort than Android. It's nice that it's become possible since last I checked, but stuff like Bromite and Lemuroid are much more powerful and convenient.
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Sideloading definitely is. It’s a shame too because the current iPad Pros have M1 (and M2 as of yesterday) which will rip through even Dolphin like it’s nothing.
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It's really a shame, yeah. I didn't buy Apple years ago because the hardware was too weak, now it's the software that I have a problem with.
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They really do hold themselves back, it’s a shame.
Even just giving iPadOS extra APIs and liberalizing the App Store would go a long way.
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I'm still mad they dropped Vulkan on MacOS lol, really killed it's gaming potential.
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It was a weird move. I guess they got caught on the wrong foot with Metal predating Vulkan by a decent amount. Making their silicon around Metal makes it a deathknell that they will embrace anything different.
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A friend switched to iPhones for his and his girlfriend's last upgrades and they've done nothing but complain about them ever since lol. I'm gonna stick with android tbh
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Never had an iphone and at this point I don't want to learn to use it. All my family, friends and my foid use WhatsApp to talk as well so I have no ideia what the whole sms thing is.
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What are you Indian?
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He's Brazilian
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The iphone UI is absolutely fricking awful for neurodivergents like me
The other thing is that my old android even without root lets me essentially turn off the google services and install directly from apk.
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First of all, I had no idea iPhone was that dominant, but I guess it makes sense, probably 2/3 of my friends have them.
Second of all, I hate internet people who think you can make laws to solve every "problem" they read about in the news. Like in this case, there isn't even any problem, oh no, messaging services are incompatible the government should step in... For what? Apple's service just sends text to non-apple people so what is the problem you are going to lobby the government to fix? Your fricking bubble is the wrong color? One of your emojis doesn't work? What is this guy trying to accomplish?
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I literally exclude people if they don’t have blue text bubbles. Cringe.
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Getting caremad about Apple is so gay (not gay meaning good but gay meaning bad)
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Why? Are you phone dev?
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I actually use an android phone and iPad for iOS. Not yet, but in the future sure.
In my opinion, both have their advantages and disadvantages.
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I actually like the iPads a lot, I legitimately think they are better than any competing android tablet
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Unironically this
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I like my IPhone SE apple knows they peaked with the iPhone 8
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Yeah I’m not looking forward to eventually needing a new phone that doesn’t have the button. My work phone is one of those new iPhones and I still prefer the SE.
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sorry I like blue text boxes because I have money
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I switched from Android after years of use (including all the rooting you could think of) to iOS three years ago and it’s been amazing.
You’re literally dealing with a pozzed Korean phone you can hardly jailbreak or dealing with being Google’s beta tester that can’t even call 911. Running a three year old beater phone with no battery life that’s rooted to the point bank apps no longer function isn’t a fun experience either.
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Zoomers are tech illiterate r-slurs, expected.
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Zoomers being tech illiterate r-slurs unironically makes me seethe. How can you grow up in the age of the internet and make a boomer look like a master hacker? iPhones ruined everything.
This shit lmao fr fr
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you use both an iphone and an iphone?
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Android and ios r-slur
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seems like yer the r-slur tbh
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The two of us did what we usually did. We walked out to the Palisade's Bluff's where we discussed our hopes and dreams. We then went to the Palisades town center to have dinner. This time we chose to eat at Panda Express. While we were eating, some high school kids walked in. James saw them first, and right when he saw them he said the words “We're fricked”. James knew I would have trouble with them. They were popular boys who had a flock of pretty girls with them. One of them sat down with two of the girls, putting his leg up on another chair with a cocky smirk on his face. I was livid with rage, and I wanted to pour my drink all over his head. James knew exactly what I was planning to do; we had been through similar incidents before. He made a lot of effort to try to dissuade me from acting on my anger, pointing out that there was a security guard nearby. I did the only other thing I could do; I packed up my dinner and left the restaurant, fleeing in defeat and shame. James soon followed, and we decided to finish our meal at his house.
A dark and ominous aura clouded over our friendship that day. When the two of us got back to James's house, I was still seething with rage. I didn't understand why James wasn't angry like me. The sight that we just witnessed was horrible to watch. To see another male be successful with females is torture for males like us who have no success with females. I was so angry that I told James of all of the acts of revenge I wanted to exact on those popular boys. I told him my desire to flay them alive, to strip the skins off their flesh and make them scream in agony as punishment for living a better life than me. James became deeply disturbed by my anger. I wished that he wasn't disturbed. I wished he could be a friend that felt the same way about the world that I did. But he wasn't that kind of person. He was a weakling.
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