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haha, all good
I have youtube premium (via a family plan), and at least 300gb of that is just downloaded videos and music.
Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?
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I have youtube premium (via a family plan), and at least 300gb of that is just downloaded videos and music.
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Yeah there’s a grace period. When you buy a year you get a month to renew but the renewal becomes month to month. I just renewed my watch 7 for $3.99 a month, so I’ll keep it until I get a new one.
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Haha I love how this thread has become a pro-Apple kumbaya love in. For all their faults, I’d rather stick with a manufacturer who tells the FBI to fuck off when they demand they unlock a terrorists phone.
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I’d say I’m more an Apple refugee than anything else, at least on the macOS side of things. Windows is just fucking awful and Linux is great right up until the point that something doesn’t want to work and it becomes an endless fuck about trying to fix whatever the problem was.
Don’t get me wrong, the whole ecosystem is amazing if it does what you want and you commit to it but it isn’t something I’d have ended up in if the alternatives weren’t so shit.
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iOS is buggy as fuck, and all their hardware is overpriced. But if I have to trust a megacorp with my data, Apple seems like the lesser of evils compared to Microsoft and Google.
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Honestly, I just really like their support. I live about a 6 minute drive away from my closest Apple Store. If I need something fixed, I just make a Genius Bar appointment and it’s all good. My iPhone 11 is bordering 5 years old and has a tired battery, but still gets mainline support. This’ll probably be the last year for it, but it runs rings around my Galaxy S9+ that had two years of updates and that’s it.
I know you can run whatever ROM you want on Android, but I shouldn’t have to. I’m still going to get a droid as a second phone, since iOS doesn’t do a couple minor things, but that’s neither here nor there. What I’d really like to see in Android land is DeX-like functionality on a Pixel. I’ve had a Pixel and it was a decent phone, but that desktop mode is pretty slick, I’ve gotta admit.
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As difficult as these assholes make it to do it yourself, their inhouse support is pretty top notch. I've never personally been certified on Apple, but have worked somewhere where someone was and even in the '90s they had sets of CDs for virtually every product explaining how to fix everything in step by step, flowcharted documentation that even a monkey could follow.
The only other thing I've seen on that level from a manufacturer is the internal stuff for people who serviced the old HP laser printers, like the ones that weighed as much as a mini-fridge. And Novell NetWare (I miss that shit).
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Nope, lamo
There might be a way to go around it, but you'd either have to update it once every 7 days or be in the EU(?).
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I was using Android smartphones for years and was an avid Apple hater until the 12 mini came out and I was suddenly intrigued. I decided to put my Apple hate to the side and bite the bullet on the 12 mini sometime after release, and I've loved it ever since.
Apple is a nigger for being anti-RTR and anti-sideloading (both of which are improving, thanks giga EU), but their phones are very well made and iOS while albeit retard-proof is excellent for making a minimalist smartphone when configured properly without having to resort to a dumb / flip phone. iOS also has excellent support compared to your average Android phone that if it's lucky will get over 1 year of support (lol, lmao even).
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You can use an adblocker and it will work just fine, though you need to go to YouTube in the browser rather than the app (which is just a browser wrapper that ignores your DNS settings anyway). I VPN into my home network which VPNs into AWS and has pihole set up on my router. Works fine.
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What is it that causes some people to say that apple products(macbook and imac mainly) are better for creative endeavors? I mean like video editing, recording and writing songs, writing books and screenplays, etc. I know a couple of creative types that swear by them. Is there anything to their assertions? I know very little about Apple computers and have always just used windows, but I'm not asking the question in bad faith.
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Mac computers aren’t necessarily better than PCs at creative tasks, a lot of the software is cross-platform nowadays. But iPads genuinely are superb drawing tablets, some of the best on the market. Like I rarely even use the rest of the tablet features, it’s pretty much exclusively a drawing tablet for me.
Macs do tend to have very well-calibrated screens in terms of colour. PC colour rendering will be vastly different from screen to screen, but with macOS each screen tells the computer its colour profile and the OS will adjust to match. That’s a valuable feature, and Apple monitors are cheaper than competing colour-calibrated brands.
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Well, they’ve taken very recent steps towards repair-friendliness. Parts are no longer locked down, and Apple now has iPhone 16 repair guides on their site. They’re also trying a new type of glue for the battery that dissolves when you put a 9v battery over the two contacts. It’s easier than ever to replace the screen, battery, and back glass.
Not all iPhone 16s have this dissolving glue system though. I think they’re testing a few different methods before settling on a choice next year.
I think it’s because macOS is more efficient resource-wise. The M series ARM chips are crazy fast for things like video editing, since these chips provide hardware acceleration for various tasks. Plus the machines are very solid, with very good displays that produce more accurate colours.
I’m sure there’s other reasons, but those are some of them.
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"just fine" that's a terrible compromise, just say you get cucked into paying for not watching ads...
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And here I was thinking I was special for setting up an OPNsense firewall for my home network,
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That’s just me wanting to use my oversized home IT solution to the fullest. Adblock on iPhone is as easy as downloading one of the free adblocker apps. They’re a VPN that redirects all your DNS requests through their pihole. Probably sell your data, too, but that’s pretty standard for a “free” service.
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Any computer with a decent GPU (preferably dedicated graphics) can do what a mac does, even at a fraction of the price.
Creative types using a Linux distribution isn't unheard of, but it takes more work to set up.