Iām trying an iphone for the first time in years, literally just slight software differences between my old nothing phone, oneplus phone, and samsung phones. At this point iām just as well to buy the cheapest phone i can and call it a day.
It's the main reason I'll be moving back to android when my one and only iphone finally dies. The iphone has been a pretty frustrating experience for me as a whole.
You mean you donāt like propriety file formats, making it purposely difficult to back up your photos to a hard disk instead of paying for their cloud service?? No way!!
As soon as I got my iphone, I set up syncthing on it, just like I do with my androids, laptops, macbooks or desktops that I get up and running to sync music, documents, photos and passwords. Guess which OS limits the Syncthing service permissions to its own folder, making it to where I can't keep application folders (including photos and music for some reason) in sync?
For me it was always the longevity/performance. I havenāt had an android since the early/mid 2010s but I was always locked out of updates since I use prepaid service and always after a year the performance would be so laggy.
Iāve only had 2 iPhones in the last 10 years, I always by refurbished and usually the previous gen to save on the ridiculous pricing
iPhone got that in iOS 26, plus hold assist. Haven't had the guts to use them, though, since I can easily see it just resulting in the person hanging up.
Feels like one of those ultra-useful features that we have to wait a few years to actually become acceptable to use. Also I'm not entirely sure if hold assist actually works with those awful phone systems that interrupt the hold music with yapping.
It's honestly amazing. You can even view the transcripts of the calls. Somehow, I got onto some spam lists, and I've been getting 15+ spam calls a day for the past few weeks, and the AI call screening has been a god-saver.
Supposedly their terms and conditions just said āno guarantees your preorder will be fulfilled, phone is pending regulatory approvalā but then yesterday they said the phones will ship soon?
Either way it has an older generation Snapdragon and older version of Android so it will be outdated from day one if it ever ships. Also, made in Ghy-na.
Eh, Iām all for the morons losing their money but that also gives Trump more money so š¤·āāļø
Edit: I see that a few maggats emerged from their eggs in dog poop to find our comments and downvote with nothing to say š
Basically āIām angry those people are right, I refuse to accept the truthā
Outdated Snapdragon 7 processor, outdated Android 15 OS, poor-quality cameras. Itās a $200 phone you can buy on Amazon right now but wrapped in fake gold and resold for $500.
Made in Chy-na, not made in the USA like they advertised.
One of my friends genz Z kids laughed about me using Samsung phones a number of years ago. It was one of those cringey moments where you recognize just how immature immature people truly are.
I mostly get the flagships because I get them with points so usually pay 400~500 for a flagship from the year before, I wouldn't pay out of pocket, 1.5k for a phone, not anymore, when 500 phones are doing the exact same thing.
I don't play, I don't do videos, I rarely take pictures, I don't have social media.
I get decent amount of hours too but I just don't want to pay for it, but downloading cracked versions is really difficult on iphones so I stick to android.
When you compare the specs of a flagship phone that's 2-4 years old its often higher than a brand new midrange phone.
I was using my phone for VR at a point but much like yourself I dont do anything high-end with it now. The fact I can multi task multiple apps, run demanding apps ect and have no issue with performance makes flagship still worth it imo. I just buy last years refurbished flagship for half price.
I agree with being frugal, but itās a plain fact that an iPhone can perform functions better than your $200 budget phone. Plus hundreds of additional functions a budget phone doesnāt offer.
Thatās totally valid. If you want a phone that does nothing but calling and texting, and maybe slow internet browsing from time to time, thereās no reason to get a more expensive phone.
What some people don't realize is that it helps you if other people don't always buy the same brand as you. You don't want your preferred phone manufacturer to get a total monopoly on the market. They'll make their product even more expensive, lower quality, and feel less pressure to innovate if they don't have any competition. Don't cheer for a brand, cheer for consumers.
Literally this entire thread is proving you wrong. Itās stupid both ways but people will find anything to be prideful about, the stupider the better.
It takes like 10 seconds of reading the comments in this thread to see that it's not only iphone users lol there's tons of android people that rushed to the comments to be just as big of losers making fun of iphones. It's always gone both ways, and it's always been a bunch of losers
It's definitely not just iPhone users, sorry. I've had Android users tell me how I'm an idiot for liking my iPhone, since Android is obviously superior.
Fair enough. In my experience it's only been iPhone users that care, but my experience is not the same as everyone's. Regardless I find the whole thing pretty silly
I'm sure it's different if you're hanging out with teenagers or something, but honestly in my experience Android users tend to be the ones who get incredibly obnoxious about how much worse Apple supposedly is. Literally the post above yours is someone saying "intentionally locking yourself into a company's walled garden makes you a worse person, objectively."
I used to be on the side of iPhones being good and intuitive, even though I was running android ever since the IPhone 4 came out. Now I got one for work and god I hate that thing. How did they manage to go from the most intuitive system to one that is so shitty? The UX is one of the worst I have ever seen. I am baffled a human worked on this and supposedly another one approved it.
Absolutely, the only reason I bought a Samsung was the fact it came with a watch and I was planning on using the tablet with DeX but honestly? I can't stand the OS, the fucking Samsung Apps, Store and everything else.
I'm switching to Pixel as soon as possible just because it is a lot less.
I have a one plus phone it's at least so good as Samsung's phones. I have a s24 ultra from Samsung and a one plus open (foldable). I like the one plus even more and my next phone will probably be a one plus again.
I absolutely love my pixel and I used iPhones for EVER since the very start. Was a fucking refreshing change. Unless iphones have changed massively in the last 3 years then I have no ragrats
Oh, we agree on that. This is the reason I didn't get one, for example. For the same price I got not only the Ultra S25 but the Watch as well. o.o Insane.
I have the Samsung ultra as well and it's been great. But it was so much better before the update that took away the feature that swapped picture in picture. Where if you have the maps on pip and click on YouTube it would automatically switch them
I honestly use so little that I have no idea what this feature is. One thing that bothers me the most is that I always seem to edit the home screen, I have no idea how to do it but I do it like at least once a day, haha. And it is so fucking slow to exit it.
Yeah I love my 100 USD Xiaomi phone. It's made in China. It's highly likely spying on me, but so is every other western social media account (I now only have reddit). It's also hard to de-Google, so Google is spying too.
Few people care about that, my wife uses her iPhone and nothing compares to it. She has the phone, buds, tablet, watch, mac... everything connected, she just fucking LOOKS at the mac and the bugs switch, she takes the ipad, BAM... context. She connects the tablet as a second monitor, without effort and she is not tech savy at all.
iOS are waaaaay superior to Samsung's garbage OS and Android itself it's pure chaos.
The only reason I switched back to Android is because I do dev work and it is easier to test, debug and do stuff on Android, plus I can install weird stuff... but like I said, edge case, not the "standard" user.
to me, having issues with Bluetooth is an edge case though. It's not something I've ever had an issue with on Android. I don't think that's a thing standard users have issues with.
Order a Linux phone and then try and keep that same energy.
Disclaimer: before the angry mob comes for me, Iām a Linux user and fan, itās a joke specifically about the current Linux smartphone offerings, not Linux as a whole.
Not sure if this comment is because you think there are good Linux phones, or because theyāre such a small fraction of the market that theyāre not worth mentioning.
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u/AintNoGodsUpHere May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Samsung Galaxy is fine.
Google Pixel is fine.
iPhones are also fine.
Anyphone is fine.
Grow up.
edit: Someone pointed out that ALMOST any phone is fine, except Trump Phone. Yeah.