It's funny how I always hear this about apple but every time I try to use the company issued iPhone I get stuck trying to do something that just can't be done. Can't even plug in a standard sd card or an audio plug...
In Android world there's the constant flow of "why can't I save the app, or app data, or why doesn't the app save the data onto the SD card, and keeps dumping everything into internal storage".
Thank god people can't expand their own storage and instead have to pay inordinate amounts for internal storage? What?
If that expansion worked reliably, consistently and in non-confusing manner. If apps could be reliably, consistently and in non-confusing manner bet told to install to external storage, keep their data there, and save their data there.
Modern Androids don’t have audio plugs anymore either by the way.
But really it sounds liek your problem is that only the company phone is Apple. The argument really only works when all your devices are apple. Preferably including your whole family.
If you prefer Android, then all your devices should be that and you’re gonna hvae a great time.
That’s kinda the joke here. Nobody cares about open standards as long as everything they do belongs to a single “stack” because interoperability sucks. Like really sucks. Probably on purpose.
Look no further than trying to repeat a Spotify song on Alexa. “Sorry repeating songs is not supported on Spotify”. My ass it isnt you just don’t want to.
I fully expect to be moded into oblivion for speaking anything except praise for the apple frenchise.
I'm also aware that some androids don't have what I want but I still have a choise what I buy. Most of my phones have replaceable batteries for example. And sd cards can prevent me from having to buy another phone when the 256 GB internal storage is full.
I'm old enough to remember "640 MB should be enough..."
I feel like prices haven't moved in line with inflation, it's just planned obsolescence has moved further up the price range.
That said, I'm aware that I could buy a second hand iPhone with an audio jack if I really wanted.
MB? I'm old enough to remember Bill say 640KB is enough!
No, it was never about what he did or did not say. It was that everyone thought it was true.
No one speaks praise about iTunes.
> Probably on purpose.
Totally. A lot of cases look like deliberately breaking what could be better implemented in an interoperable way. And Apple isn't beyond blame here; what's up with breaking Bluetooth, for instance?
I do. It's extremely handy to use them to transfer for very large files, amongst a million other things. Soldered-in storage does not eliminate the need for removable storage.
> Modern Androids don’t have audio plugs anymore either by the way.
Yes, they do. Not the super-high-end phones (which is one of the several reasons why those aren't of interest to me), but tons of mid-range and lower phones do.