How do I feel now? I absolutely love this ecosystem. I don't fear OS updates like I used to with Android. I don't fear my device will be stranded without updates. The UI is clean. The 11 is as fast today as when I got it. It seamlessly works the watch and my Bose headphones. BT was always finicky with the Android phones I had.
And there's the privacy angle.
I waited a long time for a new small iPhone and eventually got to the point where I had to buy a new phone, because my SE lasted about 15 minutes & I needed to carry around battery packs just to use it.
Similar to how they let the Mac line languish for a while because it wasn't their top seller without realizing if they sleep on that segment it will hurt the iPhone in the long run.
Apple Pay in particular is better with thumb reader instead of the tap, look at, tap again buggy process.
I could really get behind having both (esp if I could combined).
It's a reason I keep thinking about replacing my current phone with a used iPhone X, though the 12 mini would be nicer for the screen size.
People with apple products tend to keep better care of the products than the latter too.
Why is this important. Are you saying that PC users are stupider than Mac users or something? The end result is that PC users go through more hardware than Macs. I consider myself pretty decent with computers and use both. My five year old MacBook Air runs fine, I’ve gone through two PC laptops (that were always bigger) and they don’t tend to survive windows updates. I’ve even churned through yearly chrome books that seem to be made out of paper mache or something.
Perhaps people are trainable to do the right thing. But it’s been decades, maybe we think about why this training fails on aggregate.
In the meantime, my personal experience of cost/year being cheaper with Mac vs PC stands for me.
My personal experience is my all my laptops last. People have problems with macs. People have problems with PCs. Doesn’t mean any are better than the other. But people with pc laptops will more often update their laptop for next to no gain over what they already had.
What do you mean by this, exactly? Not being funny, just don't understand this as a con.
What would you like to customise, and why? How is being unable to do so harmful to users?
Genuine questions, because I can't think of much I'd like to customise. Personally, I like not having options because it keeps things simple.
https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robpegoraro/2020/10/15/apple-to...
And so many others. Apple phone users weren't allowed by Apple to have Spotify as their default music program until recently.
Even my SSO works well enough. Some notifications rely on Google Play Services though, but I find I don't really miss those apps anyway.
The advanced knowledge i'm referring to is to first know that GrapheneOS exists, know how to enable OEM unlocking, know how to select the correct factory image and so on.
People don't care and cannot be expected to care. Apple, as much as i dislike several of their practices, provide a phone that works when you need it to. AFAIK, the iphone's primary purpose as a phone - has never had an incident where a software bug prevented someone from placing a call.
I can't find the equivalent on iOS. All my searches lead to ad blockers using Safari's content blocking, but the VPN-style ad blockers appear to violate Apple's terms, and so aren't in the app store. I've also seen recommendations to use Pi hole on my network, which is fine until I leave the house.
If anyone has recommendations for system-wide VPN/DNS-based blockers for iOS, please share. That's the last real thing keeping me on Android.
https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
DNScloak and an ad blocking hosts file, such as the one here: https://github.com/BlackJack8/iOSAdblockList would be another option.
[1]: https://nextdns.io/
Having to jailbreak to side-load apps that aren't on an approved storefront is not acceptable.