For iPhone users, I don’t think the answer is to give up on Apple, unless you want the ideal solution right now — then it’s move to Android or whatever freedom favour. I used Android for 10 years and Ubuntu for 15 years, so I’ve tasted all the OSes extensively. I prefer Apple and the apps that developers build on their platform because of their UI/UX. The answer is to keep pushing at Apple’s boundaries until they budge for as long as we need. Ultimately, it should be about user choice, regardless of if you have to fight for it or not.
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I agree with you that it's not necessarily productive or feasible for iPhone users to abandon Apple entirely and switch to another platform. Everyone has different preferences when it comes to technology, and there are valid reasons why someone might prefer the Apple ecosystem.
However, I also think that pushing for greater user choice is crucial in this context. As consumers, we should have the freedom to customize our devices as we see fit, install whatever software we want, and use our devices in a way that best suits our needs.
It's encouraging to see people advocating for more open systems from tech giants like Apple. By continuing to push at their boundaries and demand greater transparency and accountability from these companies, we can help create a better future where technology serves the people rather than vice versa.
Ultimately though like you said earlier user preference plays an essential role in choosing what device they want; still every company must make efforts towards better customer satisfaction by listening closely before implementing policies affecting them.
What are your thoughts on PWAs?
Any limitation or other reason why the couldn't theoretically replace OS-native Nostr apps?
I’m uninformed but user experience is subpar and I’ve heard that there’s security issues around storing private keys but I haven’t verified yet.
Okay, I use mobile phones from Symbian Os, Android, WP and I prefer iOS for bad user experience and its entire environment. Indeed, the best thing is to pressure Apple and any other company and push it to change its business paradigms.
Tomato, tomato.
Apple products, to me, are less intuitive. But having choice is by far the best.
Cheers.
Yeah I have no idea why people keep saying they're easy. It must just be that they learned it so they don't want to learn something else?
It’s not black and white. I’ve used Android and Linux for over a decade and prefer Apple now for UI/UX. Intuition and difficulty are subjective and varies by person.
Everything about Apple looks like a bad user experience to me, but have fun begging on your knees for permission all the time.
I guess people who don't try to get up for a walk never notice their chains or whatever
Feel the same. Me ditching Apple products won’t inconvenience Apple anywhere near the inconvenience it’ll give me.
Besides, I’ve tried everything else and don’t like it any better. Apple provides a lot of convenience if your family is in the ecosystem. The products generally feel higher quality and the UX overall better. Not perfect but better.
Of course, hardcore android users will disagree and that’s fine.
I know someone reading this will reply “well, everyone thinking like you is the reason things don’t change. You enable this to go on”. And to this person I say: you’re absolutely right. But I’ll also explain how the world is full of injustices and I’m just one person - I can’t fight them all. I pick my battles carefully and I’ve already chosen. Fighting my phone seller by switching to a lesser evil is not one of them. It’s not a cause dear to my heart despite the obvious bullshit.
Appreciate the sentiment. But IMO there is a larger issue here. The world needs decentralization of "power". And as long as huge centralized hubs exist (Apple, Twitter, Banks, etc) then misuse of power will proliferate. Thinking they will just play nicely is a bit naive.
This is the idea of a web5 or an interconnectivity where every user has their own Node of as much of their own data as possible. FOSS helps this.
It's about power and control vs freedom.
Agree 100%. Plus building PWA apps can be a great solution for now as well.
Giving up Apple is a kind of a pessimistic fatalism.