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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by krzyk on Friday October 28, 2022 @12:41AM (#33367753)
The so called gimmicks is progress, how would you know what sticks if you don't try?

And it was one of the best features of android.

Apple makes boring product, that makes it easy for app developers to test (recently less so).

AFAIR Android has still more de ices.

Android is more of a power user device (you can do more, you can root it, think hack as in hacker news).

From power user perspective iPhone is like Windows and Android like Linux.

Re:Apple Q4/2022 by matheusmoreira on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:15AM (#33367939)
> Android is more of a power user device (you can do more, you can root it, think hack as in hacker news).

For now. Remote attestation is becoming mainstream and every app will find a reason to require it. Computing freedom was the whole point of tolerating Android's imperfections. Without that, it's just a poorly kept Google walled garden. My next phone will be an iPhone.

Re:Apple Q4/2022 by tsujamin on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:05AM (#33368188)
> From power user perspective iPhone is like Windows and Android like Linux.

A widely adopted platform/operating system with every improving security fundamentals versus a kernel with numerous spins each awaiting their day on the desktop: This is apt in a manner the author certainly did not intended..

Re:Apple Q4/2022 by magic_hamster on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:36AM (#33368660)
From my user perspective Android is Linux while iOS is more like Microsoft Bob