• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Welcome to apple_enthusiast, where most of the comments seem to come from people that haven’t had iOS as a daily driver since the iPhone 3 or 4.

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      7 months ago

      My gf has an iPhone 14 which I bought for her. I’ve had to use it several times and I hate the damn thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        7 months ago

        What part? Genuinely curious as I enjoy both. Only thing I actively despise is the inability to natively use manual focus

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            7 months ago

            The number line is very cool. I do miss that, as well as long-pressing any key to get the character located “behind” it.

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              The native keyboard is about the only thing I dislike on my iPhone. I switched from an Android 13 months ago. But when I used Android I did not use the native keyboard either.

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                I wish there was something solid like the zen phone 9 when I was looking to buy a new phone. I went with the iPhone 13 pro hoping it would last me at least 5 years, since Apple tends to be pretty good about their software longevity. I like android but I wasn’t about to switch to a Samsung because I just don’t like the weird “look we made our own app, now you have two browsers!”

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                  7 months ago

                  On my five year old XS Max, which runs like a brand new phone with 20k+ photos and every text ive ever gotten since my iPhone 5.

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                  My longest lasting Android was the moto Z4 i had just before getting my iPhone 14 pro. The Z4 had stopped being updates like two, if not 3 years prior to the switch. And when it did get a security update it was from 9 months prior or something. I used to do the custom ROM and flash daily-weekly, but then someone stops updating your ROM and you have to find another, to me apple has been a great switch. Again, just miss Gboard.

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                    7 months ago

                    You can get Gboard on an iPhone… it isn’t the same but the autocorrect is less heavy-handed.

                    Speaking of which, if you ever try swipe typing on the default iOS keyboard, try swiping “purple woman”. Probably comes out fine. Then try “black woman” or any color that could be a skin tone and I bet it won’t come out right. Mine used to change the first word retroactively which was… bad. So for example “black woman” would become “blank woman”, “block woman”, “Bosch woman”, etc.

                    They seem to have fixed it somewhat but now it always capitalizes Woman for me and refuses to act normal. Just a fun tidbit.

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                Wild. I switched to an iPhone when my partner got one, because I hated all of the Android keyboards I had ever tried (and Swype) felt like garbage to me. I came from an OG HTC Dream, the first-ass Android phone and had physical keyboards all the way up until typing on their iPhone 4s. Ever since then, I’ve hated touchscreen keyboards WAY less. It does help to use the gigantic iPhone version too, and set all my dumb shit I say in shortcuts.

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                  7 months ago

                  But the iphone keyboard does not have have numbers and symbols on the keys like Gboard and other Android keyboards. And the Finnish iPhone keyboard does not have swipe typing.

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        7 months ago

        Exactly. Most of the comments here are not from people daily driving these experiences.

        I feel like most people here are just sliding in from c/all

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          7 months ago

          I also worked in software QA with iOS devices for 4 years. Does that make my opinion more “legitimate”?

          iOS is like using an operating system with parental controls and it sucks ass.

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            Yeah, that’s more experience than occasionally using your partner’s phone. That said, when I QA my apps on a test phone, I tend to use it very differently than if it was out and about with the phone. I’m primarily staying within the confines of the software I’m developing.

            Maybe you’re different, but I’m usually not downloading apps and spending hours on the phone outside of the stuff I’m pushing.

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              When I was doing that I often had to get screenshots/videos that I needed to report the issues and sharing files in iOS sucks if you’re not using their ecosystem. We’re in 2024 and you can’t just plug your iphone to a usb port and just view the damn files on the thing.

              They’ve been doing scummy stuff since forever. Like when the iPod touch 2nd gen had Bluetooth but you could only use it for the retarded Nike+ features some shoes had back then. It was inaccesible if you wanted to share files for example. Back then it was also a new “feature” when they finally decided to let people use a custom wallpaper.

              Seriously, Apple is a like the capitalist equivalent of a toxic relationship. Maybe this video better illustrates my point.

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                7 months ago

                You can import photos directly, over USB, via the stock photos apps in Windows or MacOS.

                On Windows: Start > photos > import > from a usb device

                My point remains, a lot of the comments here are people that seems to be ranting about something that they don’t spend much time with at all, and according to this community’s name, this is apparently a user group of “apple enthusiasts.”

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                  7 months ago

                  You do realize that you’re telling me to use an “app” when it would be a lot easier if it just showed up as an external drive in the file explorer, right? Not to mention that media is just an example. What if I want to use it as a thumbdrive for random files? It’s very stupid limitation and there’s no way to justify it.

                  this is apparently a user group of “apple enthusiasts.”

                  enthusiast =/= blind

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                    7 months ago

                    Fair point. Just saying that you don’t need to be in the ecosystem to get the photos.

                    The fact that MS has that integration in the photos app, and the not file browser, is annoying. Apple handles Android phones the same exact way. It’s a mirror image of how MS integrates with iOS.

                    On MacOS you have to open the photos app to get Android photos, and on Windows you have to open the photos app to get iPhone photos. Default file browser integration exists, but only for the mobile platform they’ve invested in. MS has it out of the box for Android, Mac OS has it out of the box for iPhone.

                    If you want something else, you need to download some other file management apps or extensions.