-46
I want Android to get a lot better so I'm telling people to buy an iPhone 15
(www.techradar.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
-46 points (25.5% liked)
Technology
58665 readers
3930 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I'll never go back to iPhone simply because Apple hasn't changed.
They finally have USB but I imagine you'll still need to use iTunes to have any chance of doing something basic like copying files off or on to it.
I think you can change some of the defaults like the keyboard settings now, but you're still stuck with the Apple app for messaging which is kind of worse.
And you’d be wrong, going by how it’s done on iPad. The Files app lets you copy files directly to USB, and the few times I’ve used Files on my phone, it seems identical. You can also copy files to iCloud or any other cloud service like Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox from Files, or use Airdrop.
I know it’s cool to hate on Apple, but at least be up to date about hating. You haven’t needed to use iTunes to move files in years.
Yeah, I personally prefer SSH for this task, and I also like that it works with both Linux and Mac wirelessly.
iTunes doesn’t even exist anymore. Get with the times man.
I haven’t used iTunes in years.
Pretty much only thing it’s needed for is moving music into the Apple Music app which I don’t use.
iMessage is leagues better than the Android alternatives, all of which are available on iPhones if you really want to.
You are but one “make && make install” away from happiness. Libidevice actually works well for me and it’s free in both senses.
If you’re not already on Linux, spin up a Manjarp VM - offhand, I believe it’s in the AUR.
I expect there are other non itunes solutions, havent needed to find them.