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Apparently I have to free up more storage on my $1,000 iPhone because Apple didn't bother to provide enough in the first place.
Yet my $150 TCL Android phone, which has 4 times the storage doesn't seem to have this problem! 🤔
Apple is a Ponzi Scheme.
A Ponzi scheme... Nice 🙂👍
I don't know why but I never liked Apple, it seems like it was made just for an elite group of people
The quality is exceptional, but then so is the profit they take.
It is an elite product made by some of the best people in their respective fields.
That is elitism.
You could say any product of quality that cost more is elitism. But many ‘non-elite’ people can choose one or a few of those items in their life. I find Apple products to be of exceptional quality, use, and design (the latter being important to me though not to everyone). The Apple One subscription I think is quite reasonable given all it includes. What really gets me is all the other streaming services I have to pay for to watch what I want.
Did apple forced you to buy the small-storage one? It’s a free market, anyone can buy the phone he needs…
It's a soft force, you become dependent on iCloud, universal copy and paste, shared calendars with F&F and many other proprietary features which discourage you from leaving.
I've been using my Android phone for nearly 2 years, it has all the same features as my iPhone, but if I switched to it exclusively, I would make my life worse and no longer be able to share photos with the family or know what events they have planned.
It is designed that way. in the same way I used to give free server monitoring to my hosting customers or your ISP gives you a free email address.
You still can share photos by email, just send the pictures to them.
Or share a link to your shared google photos if you back up/put 'em in google cloud.
Christ no, never share photos by email.
I worked on the SMTP and IMAP protocols, they were never designed to do this.
Please stop doing this, it offends me and kills mail servers.
Share photos by uploading the image to an online server and email the link.
This is how NOSTR works, your image is uploaded to a single media server and the link to it is embedded in the post.
If you email a photo to say10 friends, you've sent 10 copies of that image to 10 separate mail servers and wasted 10 times the amount of storage. Those mail servers now have to read through your entire image just to read the email into the index so you are still able to see the headers in your mail client.
DON'T DO THIS.
😂😂😂
I do it all the time, I have a 80yo boomer dad.
Maybe you should go ownclod then to protect your feelings.
My wife and her siblings still receive emailed photos from her Dad.
When I visit, he asks me questions about how to embed photos in email.
I can't stop him doing it and I can't bear the thought of it happening, so because of that I only visit my wife's parents once a year.
At least that's the excuse I give 😂
Also, my wife emails herself calendar reminders to her work email.
We nearly divorced over that one 😂 😂 😂
So I probably should stop mailing my daily encrypted gzipped dd hard drive backups via sendmail? 🤔
Too funny. At least get them on nostr:nprofile1qqs9m0fzqe55xa8cp77dcp0cs47sz9l7dnt9q4fmqla0fjaaz2ywtecpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9ud7t8ch
I'm on Tuta, it's quantum resistant you know 😂
My wife's personal email is still the Hotmail account she had before we met.
She works for the NHS, so persuading them to move to Tuta may be a little difficult 😳
Well I work for the LFB and I'm using it. I still have my junk goolag and Hot Male but they get reworked through Duck and then on to Tuta.
What I love about that is replying with Tuta shows the original email address as the sender
Nice 🫡
Couple that with a #GrapheneOS phone and nostr:nprofile1qqsdn44vrgyvte46jcpv9lk7we9zfgrs7jqk04a3kucq345x376dn7spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qz9thwden5te0v35hgar09ec82c30wfjkccte08ac0p and its the beginnings of freedom
I’m still on iPhone, which I think was the start of this conversation thread 😂
I'm like "I got a new number, but I'm done with SMS; contact us on Signal. Set them up in the app and everything.
...They still text my old number.
I have, in the past, setup private instances of NextCloud for solicitors when transferring documents to prevent them embedding highly confidential documents in completely insecure emails 😳
I'm definitely buying an Android next time, or maybe even a graphene degoogled phone. I like the video camera on the Apple, as I constantly make videos for work, but I hate everything else about the company and the phone. Which Android phones have a good video camera?
Get a Pixel, Dave. Flash #GrapheneOS on it. You will not look back mate
I broke two Pixel phones and went back to Apple, a move I regretted as Graphene is a decent OS but g00gle phones aren’t built for dickheads like me.
I’d be best off with a phone box tbh.
I'm always wondering how people manage to break their phone. All the phones I had in my life are still running well. Except maybe one that was stolen in a house robbery, but maybe the thief is still using it, who knows.
Nokia 3210 and 7210, Sony Ericsson, a Windows Mobile HTC that is still starting but not really usable, OnePlus One on LineageOS, Xioami MiMix 2 ob Lineage OS, now Pixel 7. All working.
But my wife have a cemetry of Blackberry, iPhone smached to hell, iPad not starting, Macbook with damage space bar that cost 80% of a new price to repair.
I guess your mileage may vary.
Well everything is coming with trade-offs… Go to storage in settings and delete some old iCloud message attachments. Good pics you send all the time take a lot of storage. I found out that ie the podcast app took some gb despite deleting all old episodes… Delete the app (sync to iCloud before!) and reinstall the app - poof it reduced the app size to a large amount of storage. If you’re running out of iCloud space, deactivate the the iCloud backup of your phone and make a new backup by activating it again…
Apple is little more than a financial product at this point, it's just a place to park pension funds. So yes, a ponzi scheme, with text messages.
That's true, they are also a bank in all but name and regulation.
