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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week agoI hate Android. A bit over a decade ago, I ran across an ArsTechnica article about a sale on Windows Phone, so I figured, for $55, may as well give it a try. Turns out I don’t hate the form factor; I hate Android.
I got a much better Windows phone shortly after, and I rode that for about two years. When I first got into the ecosystem, pretty much all apps were available (The Economist built a WP app!), but as uptake went nowhere, the apps started disappearing, and I had to come crawling back to Android.
I hate this fucking thing of “no, no, let us control your hardware.” And software options. And sell your location data to anyone willing to buy it.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I loved BB10. It had gesture-based navigation years ahead of its time, I had better control over which apps were actually running on my device at a given time, and it could run Android apps alongside BB10-native apps. It helped that I liked the form factor of the devices with physical keyboards, too.
Nowadays you have large, glass rectangles in two sizes: large and extra large, and they come in two flavours: Apple and Android. It’s no coincidence that Android has become more restrictive in terms of control over your own device, as the competition has dwindled and thinned.