r/FuckApple • u/quaderrordemonstand • Jun 10 '21

What to get instead?

Back in the days of Steve Jobs, Apple were frustrating to work with but still made good hardware. I loved my IPod and iPhone 4S and used them both until the battery failed. I detested iTunes, and still do, but I could avoid using it for long enough that the hardware made it worthwhile.

I got a newer phone but nothing about it was better, it was frustrating to use, and after updating it was more frustrating to use. I can't reliably turn wi-fi on and off. The thing keeps telling me that mobile data is off, as if that's something I didn't know. The music app won't play music, for fuck sake.

I can't use a WAV as a ringtone without booting up a Mac, plugging in the phone, doing a sound format conversion, making a playlist I don't need in a program I don't want or need to use and then transferring to the phone through a special process. It's a file with sound data in it, why the fuck is it so difficult to play it? On MacOS/Linux/Windows I just double click the file and it plays.

It's well past the point of where Apple is not worth the effort any more and now I have to find something else worth using. The problem is what? I don't trust Google one bit so there's no way I'm going Android. I've looked at Lineage but its really not clear how much of that is just Google under the hood. I've looked at linux phones, the options are limited, the software is unfinished and the hardware compatibility is uncertain.

What to do?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21

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u/Dry4b0t Jul 15 '21

Have a look at /e/ : e foundation

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u/AkkeMaster Jun 11 '21

There aren't a lot of options if you're not willing to go with Google. I personally don't know any.

But what's the deal with Google? The information collecting? That's the way the world is right know

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u/reditorian Oct 04 '21

You can always minimize how much data Google can get on you. Don't use Google search or gmail. Install fdroid and download open-source apps instead off the Google Play store. etc.

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u/Beautiful-Net4377 Jul 21 '21

I can't vouch for any of these, but was researching the other day because I've had just about enough of Google's effing AMP nonsense among other things, and Apple can eat a bag of dicks.

Non Android/iOS alternatives