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casey at easterhegg (☎️ KCXT)

the urge to buy an iPhone resurfaces

gonna keep coping online instead of actually doing it though

probably

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Clayton

@cas but what about the walled garden + vendor lock-in?!

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casey at easterhegg (☎️ KCXT)

@craftyguy vendor lock-in for what? im locked-in to Google services, YouTube, and mastodon and those are all available I think

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Clayton

@cas Apple pushes iphone users to use/depend on services that aren't accessible outside the Apple "ecosystem", like ichat. I guess if you can avoid them... 🤷

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Alex Markley :mbetv:

@craftyguy @cas One thing to watch out for: The instant you activate a SIM card on an iPhone, it will advertise your phone number as an iMessage address to every Apple user who has your number in their contacts. The only way to avoid this is to disable iMessage and FaceTime completely on the device.

Angelo Verlain

@alex @craftyguy @cas I'm sorry to understand but what's the issue on this? They already have your number.

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Clayton

@vixalientoots @alex @cas see what I said earlier about Apple pushing users to use their proprietary walled garden

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pan
@craftyguy @vixalientoots @alex @cas i think that's only perceived on some countries... i hate google, they push you to their ecosystem in very shady ways, (and remember, Google is an ad company) and i mean, yes, you can switch from samsung to motorola or whatever, but you are feeding the same giant ad company, that's why they make it easier! D:.

I feel that the biggest reason Apple is perceived like the worst is not because of them, but because the countries culture, i see a lot of people complaining about "Man, i can't message my friends because they say i have green bubbles on IMessage u.u", but then there are developing countries where you need to use whatsapp or google specific services to access your medical assurance D: (this is from a normal user perspective, i know most of Linux users only want to sideload their apps and such)
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Alex Markley :mbetv:

@vixalientoots @craftyguy @cas In my situation I didn't want all of my contacts trying to reach me via iMessage since I didn't expect to be reachable via that protocol continuously. The behavior of the Apple Messages app is really bad when a contact is available via iMessage intermittently. So your contacts' iPhones will continue trying to send you iMessages even though you may no longer be able to receive them.

I literally fixed it by buying an iPad Mini. It's the only iOS device that Apple sells which can BOTH be activated on a cellular network AND register for iMessage and FaceTime without advertising a phone number as a reachable address.

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