Everyone has their preferences, I would love to hear why you guys prefer using Android!

  • Jeffrey_Jizzbags@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used android for 12 years, and after I couldn’t find a flagship phone with an SD card slot I figured I’d try an iPhone because why not. That was 10 months ago and I’m still using it. Things I really miss and prefer about android:

    -Customizability: being able to change whatever I wanted was great. I loved spending hours customizing launchers and how everything worked.

    -File system: God do I hate iOS and how file management works on iPhones. It’s so unintuitive and dumb. To put videos on my iPad through VLC I have to download the app, then put the files in the app on a computer with iTunes or a Mac, then sync it. Drag and drop for music management was great too.

    -USB C: no explanation needed

    -Sideloading apps: I used this quite a bit more than I thought and it was definitely something to get used to, to not be able to easily do that without jailbreaking or whatnot.

    -YouTube Vanced/emulation: I hate ads and like games

    -Keyboards: the iOS keyboard is dogshit. The 3rd party ones are also dogshit, even though somehow the same ones on android were great

    • geezer@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Hi there, just a question, see the VLC issue, have you tried the option to ‘Sharing Via Wi-Fi’ under ‘Network’ in VLC?
      Once that is activated, it gives you a local IP then you go to your computer’s browser, type that IP address and drag files from say Desktop into the browser.
      You will not need iTunes.