I’m getting the new burger xl iPhone 15 tell me why I’m counter revolutionary

Why not ask them to use a cross platform app like Signal?

There's plenty of other choices.

I was very satisfied with my Umidigi back in the day. ISTR it had great band coverage, so it just worked when I went abroad; some phones are very skimpy, like they'll only get 4G data on one or two carriers or not in some countries. Fall-induced screen damage made it uneconomical to fix so I got a $150 Nokia and said meh It's enough for Jerboa and a stack of 2FA apps.

The Oukitel designs with dummy thicc batteries look compelling, but I'm not really in the market.

Apple profit margins on iphones are 40 percent, so you are paying (in some way) apple shareholders 40 percent of phone price, thus it’s counter revolutionary

Unfortunately Android is the best I can do because of material circumstances. A Pinephone daily driver would be the dream however, but a fully FOSS phone is only happening under socialism.

i was joking. ive had an android of some sort since ‘Donut’. about two years ago I got an iphone because of Covid and my kids.

Im not going to lie my iphone 12pro max is slick. Its got insane battery life. The photos are great quality. If i start a YT vid on my iphone and switch to my ipad, itll start up where I left off just by opening the app. My airpods follow. Everything is very polished.

but i miss my fucking back button. I miss rooting my phone. I miss sideloading shit. I miss a hosts file. I use ssh a fair bit to log in remotely to some Pi’s and some thinclients I have at home doing dumb shit and the ssh apps in the app store are trash. It seems like everything costs money. I miss a fucking homescreen and an app drawer. The list could go longer.

but, i think I use my phone a bit less because despite the polish, i dont really enjoy it, so i guess its a good thing. or maybe i just done really care enough any more. i dunno.

Different carriers use different standards, gsm and cdma. You gotta pick the one that has the antennas for the network you wanna use.

That’s probably old information, I’ll look into it a little more in a second.

I was wrong. It used to be a modem choice way back in the day but now they’re mostly the same. “Choose carrier later” is unavailable because you picked financing and the terms of financing require a carrier. If you choose to pay up front then you can pick no carrier and set one up later but it’s $30 more because they do some kind of discount for connecting right then.