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Iphone users of Lemmy, people say not to trust you on tech insights. What say you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think tech guys are split on apple because of the different priorities. Apple has a very clean, optimized and seamless OS and ecosystem.

Apple is also objectively extremely anti-consumer as well. No side loading, proprietary software and hardware, ludicrously overpriced hardware, locked down OS, and highly monopolistic. All of these only get stronger the more who use Apple, and so many tech people are turned off by it.

Personally, I am more of the latter. I don't care if my phone is a Nokia 3310 in comparison. I'd rather die standing than live kneeling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No sideloading? Sure iOS and iPadOS are pretty locked down, but homebrew? Most of the apps on my Mac didn’t come from the App Store.

As for the price, sure they’re expensive, but they last! I have a 2006 mini still kicking around, a 2013 iMac still chugging along… neither still receive updates, but that doesn’t stop me from running some flavor of Linux on them for one reason or another. On that front, Apple has pissed me off a bit, though. The first Mac I used was a G4 that got software updates for right around 10-years. The mini I have got about the same. The iMac got 8 years, IIRC. That made me mad.