Stop forcing updates on the lower level stuff that forces people to spend billions on maintaining code. This way, we could return to a world where you can just buy software and use it for years without some update borking it.
Also outlawing financially motivated (i.e. greedy) retroactive ToS changes.
iMessage is how so many people communicate around me. It’s a lot more than just blue bubbles. It’s games, SharePlay, AirDrop (this is a huge one), and much more. Countless times, I’ve wanted to play some kind of iMessage game with a group of other people, but I have an Android so I can’t.
Okay the 2nd point is pretty moot actually. The only thing I can think of is Snapchat dark mode but that’s one feature on a proprietary social platform countless open source apps.
I really wish I could run away from the megacorps, but they dominate the market so I can’t. And these days I hate Google much more than Apple.
Seriously, people care about this a lot more than me. And I currently prefer Android, unlike 90% of people in my age group.
Because there actually are some desirable features only on iPhones. iMessage is the big one, but also many app developers–and college students around me!!!–treat Android users as 2nd class citizens; also I want to degoogle myself a bit. I’m also afraid of the direction Android is going in right now.
However, iPhones currently have so many undesirable “features” that I’ll never switch at the moment. The big ones are no sideloading, crappy file manager, no Firefox+uBlock origin, and no local music player. And the 2000% storage markups on iPhones are atrocious.
The native file manager kinda sucks. It’s clunky and doesn’t have many features. On the other hand, FX on Android is super fast and feature rich. So much better than the stock Android file manager.
If the EU does that and Apple follows through in America (doubtful), Apple will most likely have my money. I’d love to have the good parts of iPhones but I can’t stand how locked down it currently is.
Never heard of the sidestore, but it seems so cool! This gets me closer to switching to iPhones than any of Apple’s events do. If the sidestore has a real file manager and local music player, and possibly even Firefox+uBlock origin, I would seriously consider switching to iPhone.
Small security updates when necessary would be fine, but all the time I just see software (especially with the web) be like, we’re deprecating these features (that millions of websites use).