Weird flex, but ok.

Yeah and apple doesn’t…

Afaik, that changed a while ago. Nowadays, it should still ask for the google account of the most recent owner.

They have the same system. The phone is tied to your account and you can track, lock and erase it remotely with Google’s Find My Device.

Text looks perfectly fine from a normal distance on a 27" 1440p monitor. And yeah, the pixel count IS significantly higher. It’s about 16% more.

However, if you want higher power consumption and much lower fps for little to no gain, you do you brother.

Do you use your tv for work 8+ hours a day with static elements on the screen at all times?

5k makes no sense in a 27" monitor and no gpu would be able to actually drive that many pixels in a game at a high refresh rate.

For example? I mean, it is expensive but there are literally no other phones with the same chipset, an sd card slot and a headphone jack. Vote with your wallet, etc.

Tbf, I also got it for about $600 so in my case it wasn’t that expensive.

Sony Xperia 5V?

Don’t know about that camera stuff but mobile banking doesn’t have any issues. I have the Sony phone I mentioned above, I rooted it and it has the grand total of 0 issues.

Yeah, that has a locked bootloader and even though they promised you’d be able to unlock it, they never provided a way to do so. There’s at least 1 case in which a user sued them over it and asus had to reimburse them.

Not to mention all of the issues with their pc hardware. They’re a shit company and everyone should avoid them.

They’re also from asus. Big no-no

There’s no need for a defense, buy what you want. However, there are lots of sub-1000 phones that are very good.

They should also have a wired option. But I guess that they removed the headphone jack from their latest phone for a reason.

Apple handles Android phones the same exact way.

No, it doesn’t. You need a 3rd party app (like Android File Transfer) to access general files and that’s because Apple decided to make it harder for their users to use an android with a Mac. Why? Because they want to sell you an iPhone.

If you connect an Android device to a linux or windows pc, it simply shows up as an external device. No apps needed.

Default file browser integration exists, but only for the mobile platform they’ve invested in. MS has it out of the box for Android, Mac OS has it out of the box for iPhone.

Again, what? Windows did not invest in Android (they even tried to create their own mobile OS) and this has absolutely nothing to do with that. The only reason why you can’t access your files from an iPhone or your Android files from a Mac is because Apple makes it deliberately inconvenient. There are no other reasons.

Android uses a standard communication protocol. There was no specific android “integration”. It’s like saying that a thumbdrive working on a given OS requires specific integration for each manufacturer.

You do realize that you’re telling me to use an “app” when it would be a lot easier if it just showed up as an external drive in the file explorer, right? Not to mention that media is just an example. What if I want to use it as a thumbdrive for random files? It’s very stupid limitation and there’s no way to justify it.

this is apparently a user group of “apple enthusiasts.”

enthusiast =/= blind

When I was doing that I often had to get screenshots/videos that I needed to report the issues and sharing files in iOS sucks if you’re not using their ecosystem. We’re in 2024 and you can’t just plug your iphone to a usb port and just view the damn files on the thing.

They’ve been doing scummy stuff since forever. Like when the iPod touch 2nd gen had Bluetooth but you could only use it for the retarded Nike+ features some shoes had back then. It was inaccesible if you wanted to share files for example. Back then it was also a new “feature” when they finally decided to let people use a custom wallpaper.

Seriously, Apple is a like the capitalist equivalent of a toxic relationship. Maybe this video better illustrates my point.

I also worked in software QA with iOS devices for 4 years. Does that make my opinion more “legitimate”?

iOS is like using an operating system with parental controls and it sucks ass.

My gf has an iPhone 14 which I bought for her. I’ve had to use it several times and I hate the damn thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah but it’s pretty uncommon. There’s a reason why RAM has a lifetime warranty and SSDs have 3 to 5 years usually.

Also, no one said soldered RAM doesn’t suck balls as well. Because it does.

Lastly, no, it wouldn’t necessarily be slower. SSDs are crazy fast nowadays.

Yeah, onto an SSD that will eventually die and are not user replaceable. It really is incredible how some consumers will defend this type of bullshit.