Iphone users of Lemmy, people say not to trust you on tech insights. What say you?

Some people purchase a phone based on looks, some for customization, others for specific apps, some it comes just down to what they can afford

I can come up with strong reasons to use Window or MacOS as your primary desktop os. IOS or Android as your phone OS. Windows / Linux / BSD for a server or appliance OS.

If someone thinks one size fits all THEY are the ones that should not be trusted in terms of tech insights.

Oh, we are back at being jerks to each other because of phone. Lovely.

I work around a lot of technical people. From software to devops, sys admins to hardware engineers, entry level to exec suite; and I have contacts around the world from my job. It’s a mixed bag as to which phone they all use, and it’s never had any effect on how I view their technical abilities. My personal phone is an iPhone, and my work one is a pixel 7 pro. It’s been that way for over a decade. There are things I like and dislike about both platforms. At the end of the day the “technical” things I do have little, if anything, to do with my phone.

Any personal judgement a stranger makes based on phone, OS, sportsball team, etc really only highlights their own childishness, need for something to lord over others, and propensity towards tribalism. I have no time for that BS.

For context I use all of these daily: Linux (servers + handheld gaming), Windows (gaming), Mac OS (work & general purpose). I used one of the first iPhones around 2008, then exclusively Android for 10 years, and then back to iPhones.

Iphone users of Lemmy, people say not to trust you on tech insights.

IMO, these "people" with such takes are the only ones who shouldn't be trusted on tech insights here :P

There’s plenty of complete tech idiots on both sides and geniuses on both sides. Lemmy is hardcore Linux, everything should be free. Anything apple is shit on.

Who cares what phone you have. It's just a phone.

It's just a stupid phone brand, it doesn't mean anything.

The phone you use doesn’t say anything about your tech insights. Why should it?

However, it may tell you something about the kinds of things the person values. If price matters, you’ll go with the cheapest Android. If features matter, you’ll go with a flagship Android. If privacy matters, you’ll get a specific Android phone and install GrapheneOS on it.

There are also a variety of reasons for getting an iPhone, and they may reflect your values in some way.

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Fuck em. I don’t want to talk to them anyway. If having a phone preference different than them is a problem

If all your friends have an apple phone it's easy to buy one too. They have some features that makes having an android in an apple friend group quite anoying. For example the classic: "I'm going to air drop you the picture." And then only after every apple user in the room has got the picture they think about sending it the classic way to the outsider. It doesn't sound like much, but it doesn't just happen with air drop, but with a lot of those features. Source: I'm the android guy in an apple friend group.

They all are far from techy.. I think it's wrong to generalize, but I think if you don't know shit it's easier to go with apple. Android usualy is far more customizable, but some people just don't care and want a phone that just works. And for those apple can be the right option, because in general it's easier to understand at a first glance.

So I originally bought one due do family circumstances. A family member was in a heavily HEAVILY censored part of the world- the type of place that you can’t get emails or text messages out of. The type of place where any communication sent over their network WAS being monitored, so you had to speak very carefully.

iMessage was the only 100% reliable method of contact, so I got an iPhone and just haven’t upgraded since.

Who says that? Seems kind of silly to put some one in a box based on their phone OS preference

Propertiary software esp iMessage and other apps I rely on atm, has kinda prevented me from moving to fully android. I have started to use Linux on my laptop permanently though.

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Anyone can have an insightful or idiotic opinion. The OS they use to express it doesn’t matter.

My wife is an iPhone user but that's because it was a hand me down. I will say, on her behalf, it doesn't make her less tech savvy-- she's that way all by herself.

Considering I go around telling people to install NixOS, that sounds about right.

Seriously though, Apple stuff is usually 90%* of the way there with how I want my devices to work. I don't miss Android at all honestly, on the desktop it's a lot closer. So much so that when I use my Linux computer, I miss stuff from macOS and when I use my MacBook, I miss stuff from Linux. (I really really wish there was a GNUstep-based Linux desktop on par with KDE. I should get back to messing around with GNUstep, I wanted to look into getting Wayland support fixed, but too many projects.)

* Let's hope the EU gives that another couple % for the iPhone.

I have an iPhone an a few Linux computers. Where do I stand?

I think a lot of the ios lemmy users are actually early stage converts. Some know, some dont. Since a large portion of lemmy (and especially the linux community) is made up of anti social trolls, these converts to be might never actually hop over since they think they‘re stupid and unworthy for the „god-OS“ that only „the truly enlightened understand“.

Obviously this is mostly cynical bitterness speaking from the really bad interactions I had with people who dont know shit about computers but like to lord their tiny and specific knowledge advantage over others to bolster their egos from their moms basement.

That said, apple has decent hardware and the fact that we havent broken their asshole bootloaders so we can actually root their devices properly shows that they’re not that stupid. But no, you should not use apple (or stock android I guess) if you have the tech knowledge and funds to switch.

Disclaimer: this is just my opinion. I‘m fine with disagreement. Trolls will be blocked immediately.

I would never say that iphone users are clueless by default about tech. Many are, just like android users and some act like apple has the most amazing tech, but I wouldn't say that iphone users are generally clueless.

I think there are good and bad reasons to have an iphone.

I'm the only one in my family who has owned iPhones and iPads. I'm also the one that gets asked for tech help.

I've used both Android and iOS extensively so I know my way around both.

Obviously agree with everyone else here, I just wanted to add a personal tangent. Right before the crypto boon back in 2019-2020, I called that AI was going to be the next big thing and to invest in it. Obviously we’re seeing that, but I honestly think we probably only have about another year and a half to 2 of the AI gravy train before it does a dot com burst, and people realize it’s true value. It got so overinflated so fast people will eventually realize it’s just pattern recognition and matching and it can’t solve everything, then it will die down.

The next one that will come is quantum computing in about 6-7 years. Not because it can “compute better than regular computers” but because quantum is able to spit out approximations so much faster than regular computers, it will have a huge boon in cloud based physics rendering, and large dataset analysis.

Why do iphone users still talk like hipsters of yesterdecade

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