Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?
Mothra@mander.xyz 1 year ago
If you like Apple and Mac, go ahead, use whatever you like. I think the hate comes from the hype attitude apple users typically have. They are a bit too hardcore about it and it gets annoying. I know, some bad apples spoil the lot (pun?) and I’m sure there’s Apple lovers who don’t go around preaching or trying to convert anyone. My sister loves her iPhone, yet I never heard her recommend me get one, or even brag about it.
Now you will have to understand different people value different things. For me, if you can’t sideload apps, if it’s too hard to jailbreak, if it’s too expensive, if I can’t run the niche software I need to run- I’m not going to bother. For these reasons I’m not an apple customer.
Finally, no, no haven’t used any Apple products lately. I think the last time I did was a Mac at uni some 5 years ago, and I’ve always found the interface counterintuitive. The mouse design is very uncomfortable. I don’t like their keyboards. Perhaps these things changed or maybe we have compatibility, but again, adding to the reasons in paragraph 2- I don’t see why I should bother.
spckls@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess what i wanted to ask by creating the post is exactly what you are saying.
Why would you want to jailbreak a phone or sideload apps? Maybe you don’t have to? I was blown away by the amount of apps and features baked into the iOS and macOS, i had no idea that was the case.
And you can’t even know if you don’t try. Look at the amount of people saying, for example, you can’t have adblock on safari (you can), or that there are no automations on ios (there are).
I’m not trying to preach or to convert anyone, i’m just saying that i’ve been living under a rock and didn’t know about any features the ios/macos offer.
Also, apple products work just fine, sometimes better, with non-apple hardware and software.
Bluetooth devices especially.
Mothra@mander.xyz 1 year ago
What would I do without NewPipe? Can you run it on your iPhone? I’ve never experienced poor performance with my hardware, why should I pay triple the price? I didn’t need to jailbreak my current phone, but I did my previous one. I can’t even remember why I did, but I was happy I could. Some people like tinkering with stuff this way, the same goes for computers. Why would anyone pay more to get less enjoyment out of what they buy?
I understand you don’t need or care any of these features, and that’s fine. Most people love listening to Spotify on their iPhone, I’m cool with that. I don’t know what else needs to be understood here other than essential character differences. People are different.
spckls@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Newpipe doesn’t have a version for iOS, the newpipe team decided it won’t support the os because it heavily relies on android api. Not to mention that you probably couldn’t easily install it even if it exists. Youtube without ads is available via safari though.
Nothing wrong with differences. I just wanted to point out that many of the things i thought i would be missing, i’m not, either because there is an alternative or because it’s in the os by default.
To answer your last question, an example, i paid more money to get less enjoyment from one of the computers i use in the “home lab”. I could’ve spun up yet another VM for some services, for free, but i decided to purchase a dedicated machine. It had to be small tho, so the only real option i had was the Intel NUC.
It costs triple of the DIY version, not to mention infinitely more than a “free” VM, but it was the right choice. CPU is soldered, you have to buy M.2 storage because no sata ports, and it takes SO-DIMM. I “could” buy a cheap AMD CPU and motherboard and reuse multiple sticks of RAM and SSDs laying around in the lab, but the power consumption and form factor were more important for the use case.