Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now

Posted by aivosha on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:12PM
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We all know that Apple's quality is slowly but surely degrading and its been on my mind for some time now to find alternatives for all the Apple devices im using. I have macbooks i use for work and at home, I use mac mini as my server and of course I use bunch of iphones/ipads.

The last straw for me was 10 minutes ago, when I updated my iOS to 9.3 to get the long waited and probably one of the really useful features Apple has produced in a long time, the Night Shift, and only to learn that my device, iphone5 is not supported ! WTF Apple !? Whats so special about changing the color gamut/temperature that iPhone5 cant pull off ? Am I missing anything here ?

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Re:Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now by LeoSolaris on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:07PM (#11333921)

There's been a really great pair of apps in Android for the last couple of years that handle "Night Shift" functionality.

The one that dims the screen further than the 0% brightness setting called Night Mode, and one that skews the colors to reduce blue light called Bluelight Filter.

Both work remarkably well together, and if your screen is AMOLED they even save you a little battery power.

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Re:Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now by shams93 on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:55PM (#11333873)

Yeah no need for apple here but I'm a web/android developer so while I still might need windows for building android and doing ableton live I got a nice little lenovo box for $200 and was all set, with a raspberry pi2 to do rails, java, and node development.

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Re:Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now by rubyfan on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:20PM (#11333715)

Isn't proprietary stupid software feature restriction what sparked the GNU movement?

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Re:Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now by KiDD on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:05PM (#11340316)

So... you are upset your old phone doesn't support the latest iOS feature?

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Re:Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now by devcamcar on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:22PM (#11333994)

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