What a guy. We could all use a friend like you.

Switch back to the plastic rectangles, it's a small price to pay. Eventually you'll be paying for everything with lightning anyway.

Ahh, damn blindness to the L 🫥. Thanks for clearing that up to me

Can you use it web based? I'm sure MFC wouldn't work, but I believe you can do web payments by logging in to your Gmail 🤔

Correct. Pay as in NFC payments. Graphene is not certified and therefore cannot use Google Pay and some banking apps.

Nsec would be more useful.

It absolutely can run Google. From my understanding, (when you enable it) it installs Google Play with extra steps that sandboxes each app + Play Services so that way the apps don't talk to each other and are off when you are not using the apps.

If you don't want to log in to Google, the Aurora store is an option, but theyve had a few issues recently and you likely won't get notifications on most apps. You could probably get some apps from the Amazon 3rd party app store

LOL. Everyone already knows Apple is a shitcoin

Linux GrapheneOS and StartOS user here

Not surprised at all. Their cards are open for all to see.

So let’s pretend like I’m an idiot here, this will be harder for you to do than me…

What’s snort?

You're a dirty cunt (:

I agree. Its different methods, both making unique innovations and stealing ideas from one another afterwards. Its a bit of a diversity.

Good morning King MM

Good morning #nostr 💜💫 #plebchain #coffeechain

Nostr fixes this all the way down. Crack open messaging to be an open platform (like SMS was back in the day) and you’ll remove huge vendor lock-in.

And many times Android has features years ahead of iOS.

Aside from iMessage and the increasingly deteriorating design guidelines and principles Apple utilizes for both hardware and software, both Android and iOS are on feature parity.

There's no reason to fanboy for either aside from desiring more freedom to do shit on your phone, which Apple makes a bit more difficult compared to Android's sideloading.

Even with games, it's stupid easy with Lutris and even easier with Steam + Proton. Gaming on Linux has come a long way since the early days with the contributions of Valve. It's only games made between 2007-2012 that I have had issues running if their isn't a install script. Most popular games are catalogued and have an install script so it's pretty point and click. Graphics drives aren't an issue anymore either as Mint pre-installs the Nvidia stuff and with the recent open sourcing Nouveau should get better.

I agree. I dislike elitism on any side. These were just personal reasons, and i recommend android to a great many people depending on their usage needs.

Yeah but there’s other factors. I think a big one for he current population is familiarity. The iPhone was a lot of people’s first smart phone, so they’re familiar with it and don’t feel comfortable switching to something different that they’d have to relearn.

Device compatibility is also a big one - syncing content like messages and files, sharing passwords, AirPlay, “find my…” features, universal notes, airdrop, instant hotspot, phone call “hand off”. I generally like Macs wayyyy better than any other computer and having a phone with compatible features is extremely nice to have.

I know android phones may have some of these features, but again, that comes back to familiarity. Even if android has some of these functions, I know how all these functions work on the iPhone and mac already and not having to relearn and configure them in a different OS is a huge time saver.

This is subjective, but as a photographer, the camera does color balance and skin smoothing better.

Once you are in the ecosystem AirPlay is a much better experience than Chromecast (I’ve spent $1000s on both, so I can compare)

Copy paste between Apple devices is automatic. My iPad can serve as a second monitor for my MacBook automatically.

You can run your apps on your computer without any fiddling. (Can be done with Android. I want to be fair in my list for you.)

Honestly, many of the benefits are greatest when you’re in the ecosystem. I own two MacBook pros, and iMac, and two iPad pros, oh and an Apple TV. For me, the iPhone made a ton of sense. My files are everywhere. My apps are everywhere. Everything is everywhere, automatically, with no effort.

Android *can* do many of these things. But it takes 0 effort Apple, and I spend enough time fiddling around with other things. I opted for convenience in this case, and I’ve been happy with the overall experience.