after 15 years, iOS has finally caught up with all the main android features, such as

• very mid ui design
• kinda floaty feeling
• unpolished vibe
  android itself has progressed little, although it is rapidly achieving feature parity with iOS on "locked down user hostility". overall both ecosystems look very appealing, energetic, and healthy, for shareholders

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Their biggest selling point is regulated app stores...

Completely ignoring the obvious downsides of letting private for profit corporations regulate marketplaces while facing no regulations themselves.

It's shit the government should be doing

Companies are the new de facto legislators manufacturing narratives to push their ideas along. When that doesn't work, they simply use their overwhelming market share to push us there anyway, replacing our law with policy.

Nations that aren't instituting forced ID for internet use are still going to be pulled along for the ride unless they have their own digital systems to effectively replace US tech hegemony, and look how long it took to make two thoroughly "mid" mobile operating systems.

If you're worried about this sort of over reach, then consider trying a Linux distro on your phone, or a spare if you can afford it.

Replacing the complete ecosystem is going to take time and effort, and it's gonna suck but better now than never.

Their biggest selling point is regulated app stores…

sound of jail bars crashing shut as Android cuts all the indie developers out of the market

It’s shit the government should be doing

The joke of it all is that government does do stuff. But it's mostly to cement the existing duopoly.

Government contractors dump hundreds of billions of dollars into licensing for the dominant OS. Government regulators are fully captured by industry lobbyists, building their rules around policies the businesses have decided on internally. Policing agencies focus almost entirely on small fish, foreign developers, and whistleblowers. Courts use a one-size-fits-all financial punishment guidance, which can easily bankrupt a small business but is barely more than a speedbump for mega-corporations.

Nobody seriously talks about Breaking Up The Tech Companies via Antitrust Laws. Nobody talks about making Open-Source Code more regulatory friendly or investing more public dollars in Open-Source development / deployments. We can't even seriously talk about insourcing chip production or building out competitors to Intel and TSMC.

The Big Lie of modern left/right political discourse is that American political institutions are doing Too Much or Not Enough. The bitter truth is that if you're any kind of threat to the domestic business cartels... well... just ask TikTok what happens next.

All the regulation they do such as age verification is mandated by governments.

Where are we on the linux phone OS front? Ubuntu Touch, etc?

IOS is soon to recognize that data can be stored in these things called "files" that are located in what's called a "folder" and maybe the user can even decide where on this thing called a "hard drive" these "files" and "folders" are located instead of typing into a random search bar.

You're quite the madlad aren't ya?

My sister made some photos for me with her iPad recently. I told her to sent me the photos but she just didn't know where they were. She could access them with some photo apps but the file system was completely obfuscated. She looked to me because I am the tech guy in our family but I had no idea.

Their biggest selling point is regulated app stores…

Meaning it's not Wild West, apps need to be approved to be listed and consumers are generally able to trust what they install.

That is becoming less true due people being entrenched in one ecosystem or the other.

That is regulating a market....

Fixing it via regulation would require accountability and transpency. To sell on a goveerenment marketplace app developers would need an actual real life human to put their name on a line saying they're responsible if the app turns out to be malware.

Like, there's regulations for products already, you can't sell fire extinguishers to people that are filled with gasoline. You shouldn't be able to offer an app that will steal your identity or creditionals to other apps/sites.

Like, youre acting like words only mean one thing bro, you need to open your eyes and don't just always assume everything is what you first assume.

Well if you don't like either you can always go for the paid sailfishOS, or a free linux experience like Ubuntu touch / postmarkerOS...

They're just not accessible enough for the average user, and banking on them is suffering

They've had for a couple years

I get unbelievably angry using an iPad now. They've completely fucked up the file system and its impossible to know where anything is. By design. I hate modern computing so much.

Made some photos or took some photos? If she just took photos they’re just in the photos app. But if she made something like with procreate or something then there’s just a normal file system you can access with the Files app. It’s all Unix under the hood, you can even install terminals and navigate around.

It was a Document scanning app. We didn't bother, she found them at home and sent me a USB stick. It's true though that I saw this behavior on some Android founds too, where there was only the system file explorer available.

If she just took photos they’re just in the photos app.

That makes not a lot of sense to me tbh

Companies are the new de facto legislators

Excellent quote. Ill be using that in the future.

Its 'interesting' what can happen when people are forced to do a thing a certain way only because an engineer wrote it that way and a company mandated it.

See there's your problem, you need to squeeze the yellow testicle two times then spit on the baby chicken and yell "Hooty Hoo" and the files are right there. It will all make sense once you get used to it.

They do actually have a pretty decent file manager. Unsurprisingly you can’t access system files, at least as far as I know. It’s not nearly as robust as what you can do on android, but it is easy to use.

Jolla phone is pretty good.

Not sure what happened to the PinePhone

That's why Linux is better. The corporate engineers are pulling a Death Star.

Software repositories are already perfect!

PinePhone did what most other Pine64 things do. Fizzled out.

You can already write a desktop app to do all that malware stuff. Why give the phones and tablets special treatment?

Personally I like the iPhone and the App Store for the reason that it does go through some basic checks.

But as a dev, sometimes I just want to run my own shit on my own phone without hassle. (Yes I know there is dev mode. I don’t want to constantly run my main phone in dev mode just so I can run my own apps.)

I was going to quote that portion too, and refer to what we currently see going on with these media mergers like paramount+ and whatnot. Same bullshit.

I got a pixel because I heard I can install Graphene OS on it and when I got it I couldn't enable OEM unlocking. We're being cornered.

When I used iOS last, a few years ago, photos were not considered files. (Yep... let that thought digest for a bit). This made things like SyncThing/Mobius useless. IIRC photos were managed through some separate API for "security reasons".

To access photos on a connected iDevice from a Linux machine, you need iFuse, and even then, iOS presents you all images at once. So your photos, received photos, downloads, screenshots, are all in one big pile. Have fun. Oh, but they are split into folders. By number.

Enshittification is just "evolutionary convergence" for capitalism.

Well said

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Still use Windows 10 Mobile.

Did you get a Pixel 11?

The Fairphone 6 and 6+ is something to keep an eye on, specifically with TheMightyCat's build of postmarketOS. It's almost fully functional with a close-to-mainline kernel, unlike Jolla phones and UBPorts, which both rely on Android kernels which will eventually stop being supported.

It doesn’t make sense to you that photos are in the photos app?

What are you talking about? You literally need to click a single “share” button. I honestly don’t understand how anyone remotely tech related could struggle with this.

Yeah, let’s just ignore facts and pretend iOS doesn’t already have this.

They've had a file and download manager for a while now, not a bad experience

I like shortcuts, I have some that trigger a-shell and ffmpeg/yt-dlp for conversion and/or downloading. A chore to make so I tend to use shortcuts other ppl made and modify them for my needs.

Some interesting ways to shuffle music and make playlists too, tho I prefer using marvis app for smart playlists (they really should make that a regular music app festure and not just on itunes or wherever ppl do that without the app)

I presume you returned the device?

You can already write a desktop app to do all that malware stuff.

And if you sold it thru a regulated marketplace, you could be held responsible...

Why give the phones and tablets special treatment?

They shouldn't...

If I said habitual drunk drivers shouldn't be able to have a driver's license, what you just did is like asking why someone who does 2 grams of Fentanyl everyday should be able to keep theirs...

I understand what you're saying, and I agree...

I just don't know why you assumed I wouldn't agree bud

Now you can make shortcuts with the onboard AI by just describing them! Haven’t tried it out, but I made a few safari shortcuts and they seem to work pretty well for what I need.

can we find a way to unlock boot loaders hacks and flashing whatever is in there device and install linux os for phones already?????? PLEASE we need to start canceling the top fang stonks. and also making locked boot loaders by all carriers illegal by default and sim locks too.

You didn't explain to me where the file is, you explained how to share one file. Some people like to do this thing with files called ORGANIZE them. Like how back in the day there used to be paper files, in paper folders, in a metal cabinet. That way you can easily find a specific file AND you can transfer the folder with all the organization intact or transfer a whole cabinet, even to a non-apple machine. I want my file system to be brand agnostic. I don't want to have to learn a new UI every 5 years to figure out how to organize things. I don't want to boot up my circa 2005 macbook pro (assuming it still works) and not have any idea how to find all my old media. Directories were invented in 1983 and work just fine, always have, always will.

they made it so u need to ask siri to get it i bet. LMAO ai slop and hallucinations will just bring you the wrong file XD

Sorry, having unlocked bootloaders is unsafe for the children or whatever. Best we can do is mandatory OS and age verification every 45 seconds. Please do not resist.

They are already organized in the photos app. If you don’t like the photos app and how it organizes then you’re free to use a different one. Each app gets its own file system sandbox so if you wanted a simple folder structure that you manually manage, there is no technical reason that isn’t possible on iOS. I’ve personally never looked at other photos apps so I can’t recommend one.

Last time I tried using an iPad I had all sorts of trouble getting access to files on my media server. That was like 10 years ago but still not going back based off that experience. Fuck apple.

Seems like you were one year early. Files app was released in 2017. 9 years ago.

Before that you pretty much had to use iTunes to transfer stuff. Now you can just plug in USB and see all the data from files app.

It's always been like that. I had one of the first ipads as part of a trial to see if they were useful for grading papers in grad school. No. It was completely fucking useless because the only way to open files for editing was through sixteen shitty cloud services that each app wanted you to use. There was no way to just download files, edit them, and then put them back on blackboard like a normal fucking computer. The whole ordeal actually made me angry.

Yeah I recall that, I think I was able to purchase some app to do it wirelessly but the whole process was irritating AF. When I got ahold of an android tablet I was able to set up everything I wanted to do in like 15 minutes.

Well thats important. How do I avoid this?