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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RealNooshie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.

But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can degoogle your android phone. There are ROMs/OSs which are free from tracking.

[-] anoncity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But then you lose functionality like Android Auto, where on an iPhone you get CarPlay. Android Auto on my Pixel 7 Pro is fine, honestly like as much as CarPlay, but if you install something like Graphene OS, it no longer works.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but if that's the price of not being tracked means, I happily say goodbye to android auto. I'm using lineageOS for years and I didn't notice much missing except Google pay and android auto.

When on iPhone, Apple still tracks you when your privacy settings should've disable it.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why do you need to use a Google app to use NFC payment? Why isn't there an F-Droid app for that?

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. I read somewhere it needs bank agreements or something. Unfortunately microG doesn't support it too... I think that's my biggest con, but as long as banking and money transfer apps works, I don't mind.

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Bank apps are a very big one but I really don't care I'm not giving in

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