There isn't any. It's still an obscenely expensive slab of glass and aluminum that's remotely controlled by Apple even after you've paid for it. Modern phones, all of them, are such a disappointment. I want to be excited about technology again.
Eugen, not being able to install apps without any Apple involvement whatsoever is an absolute dealbreaker for me, as is the hard dependency on Apple servers (you can't get past the initial setup without an internet connection and an Apple server giving an okay). Having the ability to unlock the bootloader is nice, but not critical — didn't do that on my last 3 Android phones, but it gives me more peace of mind somehow.
And regarding hardware itself, there's my pet peeve about the lack of a headphone jack.
Eugen, not being able to install apps without any Apple involvement whatsoever is an absolute dealbreaker for me, as is the hard dependency on Apple servers (you can't get past the initial setup without an internet connection and an Apple server giving an okay). Having the ability to unlock the bootloader is nice, but not critical — didn't do that on my last 3 Android phones, but it gives me more peace of mind somehow.
@grishka Purism Librem 5 could be a change. I have ordered one but yet to get my hands on it (with a friend now). It runs regular GNU/Linux adapted for small screen, no locked boot loader, hardware kill switches and more. @Gargron
Pirate Praveen, yeah but they decided to reinvent the userspace for some reason instead of just sticking with AOSP... Besides, that thing is thicc. I guess someone could port AOSP to it tho? Shouldn't be that hard since Android is Linux-based. Why Android? Because a phone without an app ecosystem isn't very useful in the modern society, and we should be grateful that one of the two Big App Platforms™ is completely open source.
@grishka There are already some android phones which comes unlocked like https://iode.tech/en/ or fairphone. Android is still tightly controlled by Google which I don't consider a good thing. So looking forward to Librem 5 and Pine phone gaining more users. @Gargron
@Gargron In General... all the new products don't actually accomplish anything new or better... remember FRY in Futurama? "Shut Up and Take My Money!" - I have an iPhone6 and it works great... does everything I want... Especially good for calling an UBER when I'm away from Home...
@Gargron Yeah, this is honestly one of the most disappointing iterations of the iPhone ever. All you're getting over the 12 is a faster SoC, more base storage (thankfully!), and maybe a new camera unit. Honestly, this is one of Apple's more disappointing product launches. Out of all the new product launches, the most compelling one was the new iPad Mini, and that's because it actually made MEANINGFUL changes over the last iPad Mini!
@Gargron#AppleEvent I guess if you have an old iPhone it may make sense but to update from a 12 is kinda stupid. So now Apple thinks you are guilty until proven innocent of being a pedophile and will break the security of the phone even more by scanning everyone’s pictures on their phone that they think they own. Disgusting and I can’t believe there’s that many sick people in the world to justify anything of the sort.
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