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by animatethrow 356 days ago
Only downside is no blue bubbles texting family, ha ha. Seriously, the switch was easy. My Samsung phone included a migration app that transferred over all photos and other important stuff from my old iPhone. I love the Samsung S-Pen, something you can't get on iPhone.
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latexr 355 days ago
Samsung is doing considerably worse than showing ads in notifications.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358999

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animatethrow 355 days ago
One can choose to have neither a Samsung Account nor a Google Account on a Samsung phone, as I have done, and use F-Droid and Aurora Store as I mentioned in a parent comment. The linked video shows that all the settings needed to disable the bad behavior are already included on the device with a nice UI. Meanwhile with an iPhone one is stuck with the App Store and Apple can and has remotely deleted apps. Apple has deleted data tethering apps. Apple has deleted the VPN apps of Chinese users. Apple also is trying to memory hole that time it was going to scan one's private photos on one's own phone. It's very clear iPhone users do not have the final say over who ultimately controls their devices.
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latexr 354 days ago
Your response didn’t make a lot of sense to me, so I rechecked and realised I provided the wrong link above. I haven’t watched that video, I miscopied when searching HN. I meant to share another post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334167

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