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| JohanH:
--- Quote from: eti on February 18, 2022, 08:18:05 am --- There's a much nicer, simpler, stress-free solution, called iOS. --- End quote --- That's again worse from my point of view. Where's the source code? Walled garden, totally lock-in. Not for me, thanks. I hopped on the Free and Open Source Software bandwagon twenty years ago and I'm convinced that's the future for humanity, in one form or another. iOS is a toy for the rich and doesn't contribute much to the overall technological improvements for humanity (but they of course make money for their shareholders ::) ). |
| eti:
--- Quote from: jukk on February 18, 2022, 08:26:22 am --- --- Quote from: eti on February 18, 2022, 08:18:05 am --- There's a much nicer, simpler, stress-free solution, called iOS. --- End quote --- That's again worse from my point of view. Where's the source code? Walled garden, totally lock-in. Not for me, thanks. I hopped on the Free and Open Source Software bandwagon twenty years ago and I'm convinced that's the future for humanity, in one form or another. iOS is a toy for the rich and doesn't contribute much to the overall technological improvements for humanity (but they of course make money for their shareholders ::) ). --- End quote --- You're going round in the same erroneous logical loop that many do; where's the source code for Android? Nowhere, except in their HQ. Even if you HAD the source code, what you gonna do, sit down for a couple of weekends and inspect ALL the code, and re-compile the OS? Please... :palm: "Rich"? "Shareholders"? Where are you finding this... lol. You think owning an iPhone is the preserve of the rich? :-DD You can be as "convinced" as you wish to be, just as Richard Stallman is convinced that "Free Software" is "holy", whereas all else is evil - meanwhile, normal people and non-obsessives are out there getting on with their lives using phones that actually DO what they are intended to, and living happy lives knowing that things work (most of the time), and don't require an entry level comp. sci degree to operate (normal users VASTLY outnumber the MINISCULE, TINY, TEENY fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent that is the very loud, very passionate hardcore online obsessives - Apple's HUGE success speaks for itself!) |
| daqq:
--- Quote ---I do not need to "backup" my "claims" - it's a viewpoint. --- End quote --- Does this viewpoint not conflict with the viewpoint presented in one of your other threads claiming that an expensive TV is a BS expense? The way Android works and exists allows the creation of phones that cost 50 USD all the way up to phones that cost 1500 USD with specs comparable to lesser desktops and cameras that allow you to count the hairs on someones head. You mention Apple as the alternative. The cheapest iphone I can see (new, non second hand) is ~480 EUR (~550 USD). That's a lot of cash for the bottom of the range. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: daqq on February 18, 2022, 08:29:38 am --- --- Quote ---I do not need to "backup" my "claims" - it's a viewpoint. --- End quote --- Does this viewpoint not conflict with the viewpoint presented in one of your other threads claiming that an expensive TV is a BS expense? The way Android works and exists allows the creation of phones that cost 50 USD all the way up to phones that cost 1500 USD with specs comparable to lesser desktops and cameras that allow you to count the hairs on someones head. You mention Apple as the alternative. The cheapest iphone I can see (new, non second hand) is ~480 EUR (~550 USD). That's a lot of cash for the bottom of the range. --- End quote --- We are talking about phones here, not cheap crappy TVs. If you'd owned an Apple product, you'd know you wouldn't even need to concern yourself, but since you are determined to disagree "just because", okay, choose as you wish. Fine - I don't mind :) I do agree that new iPhone prices are slightly high - but guess what? PEOPLE STILL BUY THEM - Apple are VERY trustworthy, and doing the years of work and research in that industry that I've done, you'd know it too (and no, I am not going to "prove it to you" in case you ask, lol) Have you considered that maybe what you can see is not all there is? Look more - unless that quick search is all you needed to "prove me wrong". ;D |
| JohanH:
I thought this thread was started with nice intentions, to discuss some technical viewpoint or the other. Now I see I'm wrong. --- Quote from: eti on February 18, 2022, 08:29:20 am ---You think owning an iPhone is the preserve of the rich? :-DD --- End quote --- That's your conclusion. Now you are making up conclusions. I don't care whatsoever. Thanks and goodbye. |
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