What keeps you on Android?For me the main thing is Sync Thing and Apple's weird autism about saving photos versus saving files
>What keeps you on Android?Honestly? Not much anymore. All the cool creative mobile apps like Procreate, Affinity and Scrivener are on iOS and I'm tired of waiting for them to come to Android.
Open source, not controlled by an American megacorporation like Apple.
>>109850521?
I have this company issued Mac where I test some code and I don't really like it because it's full of small annoying weird thingies. I imagine iPhone will be the same.
are there any youtube alternatives on android that allows me to watch(listen to) videos with a locked screen and ad free?also bonus points if I can download the videos the same way youtube premium allows me to for offline use
>>109850540newpipe
>>109850540tubular, comes with sponsorblock built in
the keyboard is functional
>>109850478i can unlock the bootloader and get rid of the useless cpu time wasting battery draining disgusting bloatware
Mihon.That's it.That's literally it.
>>109850548>>109850551can I use either of these without a google account and if yes can I still have subs and a sub feed?I use freetube on PC and it allows me to do this
Google's quest to impose user restrictions on things like APK sideloading is wearing down my interest in Android. If they want to make Android a replica of iOS, then what do I have to lose by using the real thing anymore?
>>109850518>creative mobile apps
>>109850478Phones with headphone jacksPhones with sd card slotsBeing able to just install whatever I want from an apk file
>>109850540Yes, but I'm not going to tell you because publicizing this information inevitably leads to normalfags making videos about it on YouTube
>>109850745fair enough and I understand gatekeeping is mega based
>>109850478>What keeps you on Android?Android is abominable shit, but iOS is even worse.
>>109850540>using an appngmi.
>>109850478>What keeps you on Android?total commander
>>109850552Okay that's a valid one lol
>What keeps you on Android?Linux Phones haven't matured yet. I really hope that my next phone runs Linux, actual Linux. For the time being, I'm happy enough with my phone and tablet with GAPPS disabled and exclusively downloading software from F-Droid, but I see the writing on the wall. I know that Google is trying to lock down Android so I can't use Android this way and I hate how phones and tablets become obsolete when vendors stop doing updates.
Binder is cool
>>109850478why would it be a question of keeping, i just get whats cheaper
>>109850478you can copy a picture to the files app instead of saving to photos. long tap, copy, paste into files. but it’s annoying that it asks you if want to paste every single time. yeah fuck apple.
>>1098504781) I'm not gay2) I am not using a device where the manufacturer can decide I'm not allowed to have a certain app arbitrarily and so I can never update it again.3) I am not using a device that will throttle to "save battery health" after a certain period of time, making the user experience turn to shit.4) no 3.5mm jack and no microSDXC slot? No thanks
>>109850478Learning new systems that are lateral in usefulness is a humiliation ritual.
Every breath you takewww.inverse.com/article/16929-apple-watch-will-now-remind-ou-to-breatheEvery move you makewww.stopspying.org/latest-news/2021/10/1/stop-condemns-apple-for-tracking-iphone-location-when-turned-offEvery bond you breakacecilia.medium.com/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-their-servers-for-every-piece-of-software-you-run-on-your-mac-b0bb509eee65Every step you takewww.komando.com/security-privacy/secret-map-tracking-apple/465598I'll be watching youarchive.is/2024.10.10-000653/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillanceEvery single dayhttps://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-nowEvery word you saywww.foxbusiness.com/technology/apples-siri-is-eavesdropping-on-your-conversations-putting-users-at-riskEvery game you playtechstory.in/apple-slammed-by-epic-games-chief-for-spyware-toolsEvery night you staywww.thehackernews.com/2017/10/iphone-camera-spying.htmlI'll be watching youwww.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/11/apple-sued-for-pervasive-and-unlawful-data-trackingOh, cant you seeYou belong to metruthout.org/articles/apple-employee-blows-whistle-on-illegal-spying-and-toxic-working-conditionsHow my poor heart achesWith every step you takenakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/13/siri-is-listening-to-you-but-shes-not-spying-says-appleEvery move you makegizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gatheringEvery vow you breakappleinsider.com/articles/16/09/29/apple-acknowledges-tracking-imessage-metadata-and-sharing-it-with-law-enforcementEvry smile you fakeabc4.com/news/tech-social-media/yes-your-iphone-is-taking-invisible-pictures-of-youEvery claim you stakewonderfulengineering.com/u-s-apple-store-employees-are-working-to-unionize-and-theyre-using-android-phones-to-keep-apple-from-spying-on-themI'll be watching youhttps://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours
>>109850530you can remove google from androidsyou cannot remove NSApple from israeliPhones
>>109850478I bought an iphone recently because I wanted to use the lidar scanner for gaussian splatting and so I could use the satellite emergency call feature if I ever needed to when camping. Big mistake. Turns out all the versions of normal apps that exist on android are some horridly gimped version on IOS. Take firefox for example. It's not actually firefox, it's a reskin of safari and therefore has no extension support including no adblock. There is not actually a single browser with adblock that is good on IOS. Brave is shit. Orion has marginally better blocking but randomly breaks on a good number of pages. Neither is anywhere near as good as normal ublock on android.
>>109851219Me eating nothing but rice and whey
>>109851150Continue?
>>109850478ios has been jewish since ios 7android has been pretty jewish as well latelyWhere the fuck are Sailfish, BlackBerry and Windows Phone when you need them?Can you believe this ios/android only world came to be because normies wanted snapchat in 2014? Can you believe that snapchat blocked every third party snapchat client on windows phone but not on android?
>>109852222It's understandable to hate microjeet but this autism gave birth to this present situation
>>109852286what gave birth to this present situation is freetard niggers seething uncontrollably about literally fucking nothingburgers from 30 years ago while apple and google are choking the air out of their lungs every second, but the freetard will still use their last dying breathe to screech "M$"
>>109850478There's a bunch of stuff I can do on Android that is impossible on iOS by design. It's all dev shit so no one except me cares, but that's never going to stop me. Also Revanced.
>>109850478app quality is higher on android unironically
>>109850569there's a mihon clone on the app store called tachimanga
I like having an average looking phone that does regular phone things
>>109850478I can write my own Android apps.
>>109850478headphone jack and not having to use itunes to manage my music. i dont know if they fixed it or moved to Apple music or something but its ass and i want my music locally
>>109851994It's a very clean IPC setup and arguably the best modern one in practical useLinux has it upstream but nothing uses it
i actually like android's UI
>>109850478The tremendous volume of FOSS applications available and the fact that I only use smartphones with physical keyboards, so Android is my only option (RIP BlackBerry 10).
>>109852222>Can you believe this ios/android only world came to be because normies wanted snapchat in 2014?Checked. Yes, it's crazy. Blackberry Z10 was the perfect phone and I had my friends 90% sold on it until they asked about Snapchat. I showed them that it was possible to sideload an APK that mostly worked with the built in emulator and they didn't like that at all. Even if it did work it was never going to be "normal" enough for them.I'm still mad about it because ten years later iOS and android still get "new" features that existed in blackberry 10.
Every time I had to use an iPhone I felt like punching myself in the nuts would have been a better option. The thing that really irks me is that Apple breaks shit that should work for everyone then acts all high and mighty. They've been doing it forever.
>>109850738>Phones with sd card slotsThere are almost no Android flagships that still have this, same as the headphone jack>Being able to just install whatever I want from an apk fileNewer versions of Android are terrible with this, anything that's a bit too old doesn't work anymore. And Google will make it even worse soon.
>>109850478i'm not paying a premium on brand and iphone haven't had anything better than android phones since 4s
Android is at least somewhat open source Why the fuck would I want iToddler garbageMobile Linux is getting better anyways, I'll hold out on my current rooted phone until you can get something with an inherently open bootloader that can use KDE mobile
>>109851120They've had enough time, it'll never happen if it's a thing by now. How many times have they tried to make it work? Linux just isn't made for mass adoption because the people that can live with it have to be a bit strange and different.
>>109852222It was banks as well. No banking apps worked with Windows phone and that's something normies really care about. That really was the deathknell of the platform.
>>109850478Ishit cant scroll. I can't just flick my thumb while holding the phone to scroll a gorillion pages. You have to swipe the entire length of the screen to unlock or scroll. This is simply unfathomable to me.
>>109854414we're closer than ever, what are you on aboutdid you miss lepton's official release?
Nothing. I switched from an S24 Ultra to the 17 Pro Max at the start of the year. I was on Android since the Galaxy S2. Never owned an Apple product before now besides an old iPod Classic.Is it better? It's still just a phone really, but there are several things it does better than Android.
>>109850569Based. Mihon and the forks are great.
>>109852297Don't worry, they're screeching about this, too.
>>109854370>there are almost no Android flagships that still have thisThey still exist>you can't just install an apkYes you can>google will make it even worse soonIt's a toggle that you turn on to allow installation from unknown sourcesiToddlers, I swear
>>109850478>What keeps you on Android?Being poor. Unironically. I would much rather buy an iPhone if I could
>>109850478>What keeps you on Android?i wanna stay a virgin incel freak
>>109854852https://www.apple.com/shop/apple-upgrade
I just switched to apple yesterday because I got the 18 pro max for $300 after trading in my flip 6. I'm very inconvenienced but I think I'll be fine. I do hate that I can't just install 3rd party apps anymore
>>109854957I don't live in the US (and in fact Apple doesn't operate in my country at all).
Mihon, revanced, number row on keyboard.
>>109854370Sony still makes them.
>>109850478It's been a while since I last used an iphone, so I don't know if these have been ported to iphone, but mainly: sideloading apps, being able to connect phone to PC with USB and browse files normally (no itunes crap), decent file managers, syncthing, being able to install browsers other than safari skins, termux, tor browser, orbot, newpipe and Google gboard. Then there are some google pixel specific features: circle to search and pixel recorder.
I just don't like iOS. Ordered an iPhone 16 recently and tried it out, sent it back bc I didn't like it.
Habit. My first smartphone was a cheap android so I already have a Google account/drive/office. If I were starting fresh right now I might go with apple, but there doesn't seem to be enough of a difference to actually bother switching desu.
>>109851914The real issue you should be worried about is the modems.https://9to5google.com/2026/09/16/google-pixel-targeted-zero-day-modem-attack/The NSA spyware makes that look like child's play. You literally probably shouldn't own a device with radios if your threat model is "I need to be safe from NSA/GCHQ/Mossad/et al
>>109850478I like the interface.. much more complex and has extra features for less money . Everytime i enter the apple store i play with the menu and it feels like a happy meal toy ,like it was made for children with mental dissabilities it basically forces you to spend money and time in a hivemind ecosystem capitalistic world. I also hate the fact that every prostitute and subhuman has one ,the people i find vomitive and a waste of air are all attracted like moths to iphones.Not to mention america is a terrorist country so i won't support their terrorism with my money.
android has a green bubble that scares women and i am gay
Apple is going all-in on AI, and making it damn difficult to opt out.My iPhone will be my last Apple product.
>>109850478>What keeps you on Android?Being a poorfag.
>>109850478not being americannot being rich
>>109850478i hate sex
>>109850478With GrapheneOS, you can run The GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, whatever video editing software suits you, etc. With GrapheneOS the whole of the GNU/Linux ecosystem is in your pocket and at your fingers! :^)>>109850540BravePipe is NewPipe plus other video platforms, plus Sponsorblock (mandatory these days).
>>109854957>leasing a phonedo people really
>>109850478I'm poorIf there's a poorer choice I'll switch
>>109850478syncthing works entirely fine on iphone what are you even talking about you retarded nigger
>>109857896It literally does not but thank you
You can use syncthing on iOS, and revanced/mihon are better on a small tablet anyway. I'm on android because iOS itself is unusable dogshit - most of its apps are better
>>109850521you what nigger?¿
>>109855708I was doing an induction for a building site last week and every tradie had an iPhone. The brownest labourer together with the whitest electrician all used the same kind of phone.
>>109850478your phone is not your personality tinker trannie
>>109850478I have to help mom whenever she can't figure out something on her iPhone, and every time it just makes me hate it more. Nothing works quite how I'd expect, it's so restrictive, and customization is very limited. Even if I got one as a gift, I'd just resell it and stay on Android (more precisely Motorola).
>>109850478File structure, especially for photos
>>109850478i want to switch to grapheneOS as soon as those motorola phones come out. not to actually buy them (they will all be four digits in price), just because i know that the grapheneOS pixel 7/8 phones will be dirt cheap by then.my family has always used apple and i've always gotten the latest, best version and we would trade down phones from me, to my mum, to my older sister, to my youngest sister, but i got really mad when i learned that iOS was jpegging the low resolution PNGs in my photos app so i went and got the cheapest android i could. i definitely miss being able to turn off auto-dim/screensaver permanently with apple, but i've been comparatively happier with the added customization options that oneUI has given me. i still need to get away from (((google))) though, and at the time i did not know that samsung phones had a locked bootloader.
>>109855584hiding from glowniggers 100% is impossible, but you can make it significantly easier to hide from the government by using FOSS and other privacy tools. granted, they can crack just about anything, but if you're not in their normie-tier dragnet like corporate cloud storage users, then they would actually have to invest resources in tapping you and i don't think the average tinfoil hat guy is worth the effort
>>109851909DILATE THIS
>>109860154Yeah this is it for me too I feel like it's not something you can fix since everything in iOS is designed around the photos designation
it's not iOS.
unfair prices
>>109855708you are attaching far more significance to choice of phone than any ios user you have ever met, and have proved yourself to be orders of magnitude more retarded than the people you are complaining about. don't post here again until you're out of grade school.
>>109850478Better pricing and customization, even if google and manufacturers are trying to remove it. I also don't want to enter into their ecosystem since I have no other apple products. Like have they finally made it so you can transfer files over USB without using some retarded software?I don't know what people do with their phones to warrant spending so much money on it. Be it Apple or Samsung. Surely even shit like TikTok and Instagram doesn't need a state of the art phone to run? I can not in any way in my mind justify spending almost $1700 for an iPhone 18 Pro when I can spend $360 for a Xiaomi or Motorola that already does far more than I need. Like I spent 300 bucks or whatever on a Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro like 4 years ago and it still runs everything perfectly without issues.
>>109855708based
>>109861677>Like have they finally made it so you can transfer files over USB without using some retarded software?Like hell have they. I kid you not the iTards solution to not being able to directly transfer files over USB is to instead copy shit to a USB C flash drive and then plug that into the device and copy it back.Noo you can't just plug a cable from your phone to your computer and have it recognised as mass storage and transfer it directly. Apple likes to think differently!
>>109851937Edge on ios has ublock and sponsorblock?
>>109850478>What keeps you on Android?I don't want to upload all my shit to "the cloud" and the app ecosystem is still kind of sort of open despite all their attempts to kill it. But if they do manage to close it down, I'm switching to iOS for sure
>>109850478It's cheaper and in the near future, Apple will requires you to verify your ID/selfdoxxing even to see the nudes your clearly adult girlfriends send on private messengers
>>109858155>>109857896synctrain is very good.dont use morbius shitsync
>>109862275uBlock Origin Lite maybe? He's right, none of them have proper extension support like Firefox for Android. Gecko is the only browser engine powerful enough to do it properly (they kept blocking web requests from Manifest v2 and added APIs for doing DNS lookups so ad servers that utilise CNAME cloaking can be defeated efficiently, etc).
