#listen my dad beta-tested windows 3.1 i was just raised this way

[trilliath]

Do you happen to have any recommendations for better phones? Your iPhone rant makes me think you might be familiar with alternatives that don't drive you up the wall, and I'm in the market for a new phone :P

I’m mayyyyyyybe not the best choice for an opinion given where I’ve actually been living in the smartphone universe. Also they gave me an iphone 6 for work so it’s already behind the curve and irritating. And I hate apple. Did I mention that? I. Hate. Apple.

I have such massive, fundamental issues with apple’s entire product line and business model. I still don’t trust google much either but at least they’re more or less transparent about their creepery. Sortof.

Here’s the funny thing - I’ve always been a microsoft smartphone user till just this month when my family switched carriers and we had to finally make the switch to android. I mourn the loss of the windows phone. Despite consistently having a better hardware product and OS than similarly-priced competitors, the Microsoft phone is more or less getting phased out. (My last phone was a gorgeous lumia 950. It’s a few years old now but it was fast and high res enough that in comparison new phones don’t even seem like they’ve advanced much in the interim... and it still looks new - tough no case required, you could literally run it over and it would be fine - but companies like apple consider device reliability a bug not a feature because then you don’t have to buy a new one every five seconds) Between apple’s years of aggressive advertising and market segmentation and fashion/status symbol positioning putting the cost of their devices well above their actual value (and google’s less overt but still concerted efforts in a similar fashion) and the cultlike efforts of ABM-brainwashed programmers to deliberately throttle and disable or just flatout refuse to generate apps for MS (which… if you have already built the app in any decent fashion it’s not like that’s hard to do - in many cases because they didn’t want to go through the “hassle” of having basic fucking security in their programming that MS requires - it would amaze me that people still believe apple products are less prone to viruses except the apple psych manipulation game is strong), the microsoft phone is basically dead and I had to move on. So. Woo. I can use snapchat now. Great. (I miss my goddamned livetiles so muchhhhh). Can you tell that I’m bitter? Really? I’m so surprised.

Ok but anyway, I have a Samsung Galaxy S8 now and it’s very nice and shiny, and has all the apps a girl could want.(The downside is that instagram has ads now, which, that’s new and tedious. So many ads everywhere on all the apps. But that’s just because they couldn’t be bothered to program them in to the windows phone versions of the apps lmao.) Also the ability to actually change a lot of settings at nuanced levels (unlike apple which likes to assume you don’t know what you want and they know best).

It took me a little getting used to the UI and there are just a few things I really miss, but so far I think the S8 is really very good. I have no real complaints about it, especially since I’ve got my microsoft launcher going so it integrates with all my files and my one-drive and one-note (where I do all my writing, which makes good integration with microsoft a very key feature of smartphones for me).

So tl;dr - I can’t give you much by way of varied comparisons but the Samsung Galaxy S8 is pretty rad