Okay, this is not an iPhone vs Android Phone debate. I respect your right to choose whichever platform that you want.


I mean, iPhone seems so antithetical with the idea of freedom. You have to connect it to a server to even use it, all apps have to go through a centralized server, no option to install whatever apps you want, which means, you literally cannot have any third-party apps without an online account.

Most of my fellow americans seems to love the idea of freedom so much, yet just buy into a closed ecosystem with no freedom? 🤔

Like almost 60% of Americans use iPhone, kinda weird to preach freedom when you cant even have an app without a corporation’s approval. If it were any other country, I wouldn’t find it weird, but for a country that’s obsessed with the idea of freedom (so much so that they disobeyed mask mandates), it’s really weird to be using a device with zero freedom.

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    Because my belief in political freedom has nothing to do with my phone choice and it would be odd to conflate the two.

    When I had an android I had to spend a lot more time making sure apps would work with my phone and that my phone would be “secure” whereas I have less concerns of that with apple.

    Simply put with apple I dont have to do as much work to make sure things work.

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      political freedom has nothing to do with my phone choice

      Lol… Mass data collection entered the chat

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            That really depends on many factors starting with who made your phone. The cheap $20 Huawei android phone I got as my first android because my previous phone died and I was broke was absolutely dumping everything put through it to someone in the cloud. That is why it only made phone calls.

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            So you really think the world’s largest ad company makes a phone where you can just “deny” access easily?

            If you use Google services, which you do with android (unless you’re a hardcore degoogler) they’ll know everything about you.

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              unless you’re a hardcore degoogler

              Bro installing a ROM does not require a CS degree… It requires a USB cable and ability to read instructions which I know is hard for USian pedon but it ain’t “hardcore” lol

              WTF is up with this limp dick attitude in here

              I swear people hate the idea of freedom

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                Can you walk through your mom in installing a rom on a random Android when she lives 1000km away?

                If not, it’s not easy enough.

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                  Well then keep uploading your shit into tim apples cloud jfc

                  I hope you got nothing to hide dear 🤡