I’m pretty much roped in at this point within their ecosystem, it all just talks together and works most of the time. Possibly I’ll regret it at some point in time when my secret history of browsing Margaret Thatcher furry porn is exposed to the world as punishment for criticizing the newest Apple Butt Plug attachment, but for now it just works better than the alternatives that I’ve seen.

Or tell them "Apple shouldn't restrict users like this" and suddenly "It's their platform!"

Nah dude. It's your phone. That's what the money was for.

Nu uh, iPhone is going to cure world hunger. Why do you think he's called Tim COOK?

I only ever hear Android users complaining about Apple, never the other way around

"My personality is based on the fact that I have an iPhone."

My main beef with smartphones is how easy it is for OEMs to completely lock that piece of shit and make it impossible for anyone without lots of patience and a hacker mindset to get root permission to uninstall bloatware, or a custom rom. "Oh, but you can do that on phone XYZ!" - But you can't with nearly every other phone

Freedom was when Telephones were still with a cable attached to the wall, before the dependence on always being reachable with these snitches in your pocket.

I used to push android over iOS until a few years ago when Google became just as bad as Apple, if not worse. I’ve been trying to steadily get rid of Google products that they’re probably just going to either stop supporting or discontinue altogether, or gradually reduce features that I use every day. I switched over to an iPhone because it offers better privacy and allows for ad blockers without having to root your phone. I don’t have any desire to go back even though I still think the android interface makes more sense for me. I also don’t care what color someone’s bubble is.

Is it Apple-bad time again?

Oh, right, I forgot, it's ALWAYS Apple-bad time on lemmy.

Well, Samsung's are a bit more modified.