The biggest one is my banking app and the contactless payment that comes with it. My password manager (at least, not well, last time I tried). The fucking piece of crap authenticator I need for 50% of work, but that doesn’t really matter for my private phone. My earphones work, but can’t be configured, so I get either no audio passthrough ever or constant wind noises when biking. There is also no convenient car interface like, CarPlay or Auto, for Linux that I know of, which is annoying but not a hard requirement.
It’s just generally kind of a hassle too. I already don’t like working on a phone, and Linux makes me do much more work for some very basic things.
Hm. Well, linux for phones isn’t really available anyway, but if you don’t like futzing with so much on the phone, why not go to an apple? That’s the main benefit, you can futz all you want or just go stock and everything works.
Depends on how you mean. The code isn’t open source, but you can turn off notifications, prevent apps from accessing the camera, turn off EXIF, location data, etc.
Does all your biometric DNA and everything get slurped up by Apple and processed into a secret file for the NSA where they use robots to steal our luggage? Yeah maybe. I mean, no one’s proven that yet, despite it being almost 20 years. But I get to play my little piratd mp3s, stiff Google, and don’t have to unlock a fucking custom rom to get that level of control.
It’s not perfect. It’s just better. Or, you can stick with a dumb phone and pen & paper like a sane rational person.
The biggest one is my banking app and the contactless payment that comes with it. My password manager (at least, not well, last time I tried). The fucking piece of crap authenticator I need for 50% of work, but that doesn’t really matter for my private phone. My earphones work, but can’t be configured, so I get either no audio passthrough ever or constant wind noises when biking. There is also no convenient car interface like, CarPlay or Auto, for Linux that I know of, which is annoying but not a hard requirement.
It’s just generally kind of a hassle too. I already don’t like working on a phone, and Linux makes me do much more work for some very basic things.
Hm. Well, linux for phones isn’t really available anyway, but if you don’t like futzing with so much on the phone, why not go to an apple? That’s the main benefit, you can futz all you want or just go stock and everything works.
…what? Since when is iOS not the most locked-down OS ever?
Depends on how you mean. The code isn’t open source, but you can turn off notifications, prevent apps from accessing the camera, turn off EXIF, location data, etc.
Does all your biometric DNA and everything get slurped up by Apple and processed into a secret file for the NSA where they use robots to steal our luggage? Yeah maybe. I mean, no one’s proven that yet, despite it being almost 20 years. But I get to play my little piratd mp3s, stiff Google, and don’t have to unlock a fucking custom rom to get that level of control.
It’s not perfect. It’s just better. Or, you can stick with a dumb phone and pen & paper like a sane rational person.
All things you can do on stock Android as well.