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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    Honestly, if you can tolerate the Apple ecosystem it works really well, with adequate privacy. My wife and my mother both use them and I recommend it for anyone who isn’t a privacy nerd.

    If the user isn’t willing to jump through hoops to lock shit down, Apple offers a better suite across platforms for privacy and security.

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      Honestly, if you can tolerate the Apple ecosystem it works really well, with adequate privacy.

      Not having firefox browser extensions is a huge dealbreaker tho (because Apple require some safari thing in all the browsers that breaks extentions), like imagine not being able to have uBlock Origin.

      Also, I’m a bit of a pirate… Apple app store has no torrent client… 😉

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        Also, I’m a bit of a pirate… Apple app store has no torrent client…

        I sideload iTorrent on my iPhone via AltStore

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            Slow, extra data traffic, extra battery usage.

            What are the upsides? I could see a phone being a great controller for a remote seedbox for sure.

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              You can use it with wifi, I just view phones as computers, so not using them for whatever is weird to me. If someone wants to download torrents they should go for it.