Sorry but I’m using a Sony which is known for being way overpriced
Well at least my beat-up phone from 2018 runs mainline linux
I envy you! I also had a Samsung Galaxy Note II secondary phone running postmarketOS until fairly recently, but the experience was pretty unusable and I put free and open-source Android (AOSP) back on it approximately 1.5 months ago.
Yeah, about that… I never said it was exactly stable :) Although that may at least partly be due to me messing with mobile-nixos and not postmarket. So far the sound and mic have been acting a bit, but that’s probably due to misconfiguration on my part.
On the other hand, waydroid works pretty damn well, so I don’t really see the reason in flashing back android
I’m always proud to tell people I bought a refurbished flagship phone from 2 years ago at 1/8 the price (without mentioning price) when they see how good my pictures look. I’m currently rocking Google’s spyware known as the Pixel 7 pro.
I don’t know what iPhone glass is but it feels like even if iPhone users are a minority, the only people I see with broken screens are iPhone users… A friend of mine even broke his screen the same day he bought his phone and just lived with it like that for a year…
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some people who have iPhones as status symbols can’t afford to replace them if the screen breaks. Whereas someone who doesn’t care about brands can easily swap a broken Android for another budget phone.
I put fairly cheap glass screen protectors on my phone, break one every 6 months or so, peel it off and replace it.
I bought my S10e on launch day and both front and back glass are intact.
Meanwhile, I see a LOT of iPhones in service that look like they’ve been jack hammered, to the point I wonder how you swipe on the touch screen without slicing your thumb open.
iPhone 12 and later uses what they call “Ceramic Shield”, which is supposedly 4 times tougher than glass according to Apple. It’s manufactured by Corning, the same company that makes the Gorilla Glass used on many Android devices. Maybe the promise of tougher glass convinces some people to not use a screen protector or something? I personally always use a screen protector, no matter how tough a company promises their glass is, lol.
A large part of the problem may be that replacing the screen on an iPhone isn’t as easy as it is for many other devices. Apple will charge you $362 for them to replace the screen, and having the screen replaced “unofficially” by a third party is also expensive. Performing the screen repair requires the repair person to have access to expensive equipment to avoid Apple’s “security” features that give you popups if it detects that you’ve changed the display. Because it can be so expensive to replace the screen on an iPhone, many people just don’t do it.
You know it’s funny, I use android and I’ve never seen a single green bubble. Weird, huh?
‘course, people would get over color pretty quickly.
By default with no prior coordination, iPhonies expect:
- High-quality photos/videos
- Renamable group chats
- Typing indicators
- Read receipts
- One-click group audio/video calls
- Shared names & contact photos
- Stickers
- Screen sharing
- Message reactions (good improvement, Android, here)
They can also expect:
- Use over WiFi, free internationally
- Apple Pay & iMessage app integration
- Messaging from other devices or via voice
- Encryption
If you’re not in North America, remember, we haven’t all agreed it’s easy to use What’sZuck or secure to use Signal. Convincing users to adopt a particular messenger is work for the more technical, the more opinionated - and whoever convinced you to download one app may not have convinced that girl at the bar to download the same one.
Apple is aware kids get left out of group chats in the US, but lets them get bullied for profit. Support next-generation interoperable messaging Tim! The collective time and mental power exerted on evaluating different messengers, remembering which group chat is on which platform, and on this debate must be staggering.
