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by taborj 2829 days ago
What phone are you replacing Android with? 'cause Apple isn't much better, Windows phone is dead, and Blackberry...
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prolikewh0a 2829 days ago
I had an iPhone 6s+ for a year and couldn't stand the UI and poor ergonomic choices. I was also unable to do basic things easily like SSH without paying outlandish amounts of money for things similar to JuiceSSH. It's locked down in userspace much more than Android and it's noticeable. Things like unzipping/unraring files, using a file explorer, always had problems with downloaded files, etc were totally impossible.

I want to go to an iPhone because Google is starting to really piss me off, but the year with the iPhone keeps turning me away. I wish there were other options.

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reitanqild 2829 days ago
I've wanted to go back to a S40/candybar type device for a while. So far this has been vetoed by my wife who fears that I'll be even more disconnected since I'll then only have access to all messaging on the PC.

Anyone knows if Telegram/Signal etc exists for KaiOS or similar?

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itsyogesh 2829 days ago
Not quite sure if it fits within the idea of complete privacy but Whatsapp is available for KaiOS.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000649/WhatsApp-for-JioPhone-on-...

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earenndil 2829 days ago
Apple is much better. You can also install a custom rom.
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gcb0 2827 days ago
apple marketing sells you the idea that they are much better... sad that even people here fall for that.

10% of their monster revenue is selling your data to advertiser backchannels.

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earenndil 2827 days ago
Source? That doesn't right at all. Even google doesn't sell your data directly, just ads; they do in-house analysis of the data.
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gcb0 2825 days ago
All those companies sell the "anonymized data" to everyone. for example "ad X shown to user Y targeted on Z at time T"

And if you happen know user Y matches user earenndil in a data set you control, now you know user earenndil belongs to demographic Z.

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