• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    To be fair i do care quite a bit about that. Phones just make bad computers to me. Small screen and half is used by a keyboard.

    They seem designed to frustrate me so “it just works (most times)” is the only way i can stomach owning one.

    I have a dream where apple is forced to make ios fully open source and where screen/input devices can freely stream any system/OS from a dedicated server.

    Iphones are so “cleverly” dumb it makes them usable.

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      I dunno, I had iPhone in my hand for app development, and I wanted to shoot it out of the cannon into the sun.

      You have to understand the thinking process behind the UI, and it’s not ‘intuitive’ to everyone.

      And I just couldn’t use it, it drove me crazy.

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        Switching OS is a pain. And when you aren’t using it as your daily driver, it just makes it worse. It took me a couple of weeks of exclusively using iOS for it to become comfortable. If I were using Android at the same time I doubt it would’ve ever stuck and I’d still be annoyed rather than quite comfortable and agile now.

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          Not being able to do some things is the biggest blocker.

          Sideloading for instance. Photos disappearing inside the Photos app and not being in files is also weird. It just felt like I was a moron who couldn’t handle my own files.

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      where screen/input devices can freely stream any system/OS from a dedicated server.

      I experimented with that, you can kinda do it with Android and an Android emulator. It was decent on the local network, ok with good cellular signal, and terrible when cellular wasn’t the greatest