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1. fedeb95 · 1790088079 · focus · HN ↗

   I have been a long time Android fan because of the tinkering you could do more easily than Apple. Then I started appreciating some of the design decisions behind especially iPhone, and it's been almost 7 years of iPhone usage.

   Recently I am starting to question some of the design decisions. Most native apps are bloated with functionalities, most of the time useless. Ads pop up everywhere, even before persistence; iCloud and backups are clearly designed to make you pay, the free space is useless.

   I am not that sure my next phone will be an iPhone.

   I have tried a recent Mac, and the system isn't intuitive at all. The first time I used GNOME, it was a breeze. Not the same with the MacBook system.

   1. RankingMember · 1790088411 · focus · HN ↗

      I followed the same progression and am also now contemplating going back to Android with my next phone. Cramming ads in Wallet, the way ads pop-in in YouTube, and the overall clumsiness of Liquid Glass have me really questioning whether the "just works" aspect of Apple's first-party cross-compatibility is worth it.

      1. ryandrake · 1790089040 · focus · HN ↗

         Same here, I’ve gone from Apple fanboy to slowly dropping all of my Apple products as it becomes time for new purchases. They are just no longer looking at users like me. They keep focusing their efforts on things I don’t care about, while locking me out of control over my system more and more each macOS release. That and the fact that Apple and their third party application ecosystem abandons computers when they become a few years old… why bother fighting that?

         The only thing in the Apple world I’ve become hopelessly dependent on is iMessage. It’s going to be painful to leave all those group chats. Everything else I use has a great Linux replacement.

         2026 is finally going to be the Year Of The Linux Desktop for this former Apple user.

         1. _ks3e · 1790090598 · focus · HN ↗

            There are a few projects that let you access iMessage on non-Apple devices. I&#x27;ve been using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lrhodin&#x2F;corten-matrix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lrhodin&#x2F;corten-matrix to relay iMessage to Matrix, and there&#x27;s also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openbubbles.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openbubbles.app&#x2F; for something that runs solely on an Android phone.

            1. ryandrake · 1790091939 · focus · HN ↗

               Thanks, I’ll look into both of these.

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