genuinely curious as to why people choose that brand, are alternatives really that bad?

As I see it:

  • you pay for the hardware and software, which is fine, but
  • if you want to upgrade the OS, you have to pay once again, but this doesn’t work if your hardware model stops being supported. Why pay for something with a limited life expectancy?
  • you cannot get rid of bloatware, only hide it
  • software is made specifically to be only compatible within their ecosystem. If you want to build up on existing software and hardware, you either stay in their system and keep paying them or start anew with a freer alternative.
  • I find it ridiculous they use fancy names to name even their support staff instead of just calling it support staff. Why make things complicated?
  • I don’t understand why they use pentalobe screws instead or regular ones (with a line or a cross section)

Feel free to correct me, I may be misguided.

  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’ve got an 8 year old original gen iPhone SE that’s just about holding on still and I’m keeping it because I hate how big phones have become since (I already hated the size increase of the 6 and that’s why I got the SE instead)

    For your first point I’ve owned a 3g, a 5s and my current SE and I’ve never heard about paying for OS updates so idk where you got that idea from but my phone is still getting free updates 8 years after release even if they aren’t supporting upgrading to newer OS versions they’re still patching IOS 15. Also do you think that iPhones are the only phone models with a limited life expectancy? Multiple generations of Android phones have been completely dropped in the life span of my single phone, Samsung is apparently the best android phone lifespan wise and apparently they drop support after 5 years.

    I’m saving up for my next phone at the moment though and I’m defintely switching from apple over to an android phone but I’ve found that I can get a gaming phone for half the price of a mainstream device with specs that blow the competitors out of the water (even beating the iphone 15 pro max’s camera quality) but I wouldn’t be switching if my phone wasn’t on the verge of death.

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The most recent Pixel software support is 7 years, but it will be interesting to see what that actually looks like.