• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    You must buy $1600 iphone to support failing US economy.

    Please don’t look at all the alternatives that are 3 years ahead in tech and 1/3rd of the cost.

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      2 days ago

      Ahhhh but those devices don’t have ‘the ecosystem’. You know, that bloated software that locks you into apple everything by making a handful of tasks marginally more convenient for the tech layperson.

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        1 day ago

        TBH nowadays android is becoming just as guilty of the walled garden bullshit. We need mobile linux and we need it now.

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        19 hours ago

        The only Apple stuff I use are phone, watch, headphones. I don’t use Google products or services and haven’t for a decade, so it’s my other good option. I don’t wanna fuck around with custom ROMs, and my last phone lasted almost six years.

        Windows and Linux for computers. Unfortunately I have a game that’s extremely important to me that is impossible to run on Linux.

        Even if you’re not in Apple’s ecosystem, I think iPhones are pretty great phones. Expensive yes, but they last a long time.

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      2 days ago

      Yes, buy a secondhand google pixel, it’s better for privacy/security etc with grapheneOS installed. But if you like apple hardware, nothing wrong with a secondhand iphone