Okay, this is not an iPhone vs Android Phone debate. I respect your right to choose whichever platform that you want.

I mean, iPhone seems so antithetical with the idea of freedom. You have to connect it to a server to even use it, all apps have to go through a centralized server, no option to install whatever apps you want, which means, you literally cannot have any third-party apps without an online account.

Most of my fellow americans seems to love the idea of freedom so much, yet just buy into a closed ecosystem with no freedom? 🤔

Like almost 60% of Americans use iPhone, kinda weird to preach freedom when you cant even have an app without a corporation’s approval. If it were any other country, I wouldn’t find it weird, but for a country that’s obsessed with the idea of freedom (so much so that they disobeyed mask mandates), it’s really weird to be using a device with zero freedom.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    113·
    15 days ago

    Honestly, if you can tolerate the Apple ecosystem it works really well, with adequate privacy.

    Not having firefox browser extensions is a huge dealbreaker tho (because Apple require some safari thing in all the browsers that breaks extentions), like imagine not being able to have uBlock Origin.

    Also, I’m a bit of a pirate… Apple app store has no torrent client… 😉

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
          81·
          14 days ago

          Slow, extra data traffic, extra battery usage.

          What are the upsides? I could see a phone being a great controller for a remote seedbox for sure.

          • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            31·
            14 days ago

            You can use it with wifi, I just view phones as computers, so not using them for whatever is weird to me. If someone wants to download torrents they should go for it.

    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 days ago

      Also, I’m a bit of a pirate… Apple app store has no torrent client…

      I sideload iTorrent on my iPhone via AltStore

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      51·
      14 days ago

      You can literally set up a raspberry pi for torrents.

      Why on earth would you torrent in your phone?

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      I’d consider myself an average ublock user on desktop, and as a point of comparison I’ve yet to run into anything on iOS that wasn’t blocked just as well by AdGuard for Safari, plus the distraction control feature for hiding one-off annoyances.