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Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Most of the things I use my phone for don’t work on iPhones. They work just fine if you want the limited apps that they have available. I’ve found that making custom automation is not even a thing with Apple. You can’t side load apps, so you’re limited to just what they offer inside their store.

iPhones are for people who aren’t really into tech and just want something very basic that works.

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IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m into tech. I program. I don’t give a fuck about tinkering on my phone. I use an iPhone

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Overzeetop@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you're not writing your own software for the phone, and you don't need access to the raw sensor data, there's likely an equal app for iPhone now. I was in the same boat for a while - needing things that only android offered. I switched to iPhone in '19 I think, and I've found replacement apps for everything except detailed wifi scanning. Also, the apps I used on android which offered direct GPS tracking would show how many satellites and nominal locations are just binary - you have signal or you don't. That's frustrating when you're at the edge of signal and trying to get a lock.

I can see how it would be a deal breaker if you need a specific app for work. I can't switch to mac as several of my (multi-thousand dollar) analysis programs are windows only, and if an update breaks something or there's an incompatibility, it costs me $2k/day to troubleshoot.

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- Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t write my own software. I will alter apps sometimes, though. Mainly I use things like Tasker to create my own apps. I have about 85 apps that I’ve made using Tasker. It’s pretty much my entire reason for having a smart phone. Unless something has changed with Apple, you can’t run something like Tasker and you can’t side load your own altered apps.
  
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- spckls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Have you tried WiFiMan?
  
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  - Overzeetop@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not recently; it's bee a year or two since I needed (and I use the term loosely) to find out and map the wireless bands and strengths that are in my house. Wifiman doesn't appear to expose the specific channels each signal is bound, just a strength. By contrast, something like WiFiAnalyzer shows which APs are using which channels, what each signal strength is, and which channel zones are empty. I don't need it often, but for something like setting up an AP for Quest PCVR, knowing where the blank spots are is pretty convenient.
    
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spckls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I am really into tech but the phone is the only part that i really don’t want to fiddle with.

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