I know most of you are on phones. what is your OS of choice?

[beefbaby]

iOS

Android

 

[summers]

Android, and only on a phone that can be rooted. I'm a OnePlus fan, and usually buy their new phone on release day every year, direct from the company.

 

[mediocre]

iOS and iphones in general. In my experience they last longer and are more reliable. I've had my iphone nearly 2 years. Before that all my cheaper android ones broke within a few months. I find iOS easier to use too

 

[juraviel]

Android, and only on a phone that can be rooted. I'm a OnePlus fan, and usually buy their new phone on release day every year, direct from the company.

what reason is there to root phones these days?

iOS and iphones in general. In my experience they last longer and are more reliable. I've had my iphone nearly 2 years. Before that all my cheaper android ones broke within a few months. I find iOS easier to use too

they are supported longer but dont really last longer. apple gets parts from samsung and they even use superior materials in their phones. flagship androids arent much cheaper than iphones so no wonder cheap phones you bought broke sooner

 

[summers]

@juraviel so many reasons to root, but just to name a few: AdAway, real location spoofing/mock locations, secure flag removal (allows screenshots in all apps), copy/paste everywhere, Xposed (some features still work).

Yes, Google pay does work on rooted phones. Actually, I haven't had a single app that doesn't work when you hide it in magisk, so the real question is why not root?

 

[Apricity]

@juraviel so many reasons to root, but just to name a few: AdAway, real location spoofing/mock locations, secure flag removal (allows screenshots in all apps), copy/paste everywhere, Xposed (some features still work).

Yes, Google pay does work on rooted phones. Actually, I haven't had a single app that doesn't work when you hide it in magisk, so the real question is why not root?

Agreed. Sadly though, some manufactures are permanently locking their bootloaders.

 

[Skathon]

Have never used either.

 

[summers]

Have never used either.

What kind of phone do you use then? Windows? They haven't been made for years...

 

[whywere]

Android I might as well give everyone a laugh to start out the week with. I just got a smartphone last week for the very first time ever. Had a old flip phone for over 20 years. Yep, even old fogeys can learn! It might take something like 20 years or so, but hey, I am hip, groovy, or whatever lingo is used today!

Walter

 

[Fakereality]

Android I might as well give everyone a laugh to start out the week with. I just got a smartphone last week for the very first time ever. Had a old flip phone for over 20 years. Yep, even old fogeys can learn! It might take something like 20 years or so, but hey, I am hip, groovy, or whatever lingo is used today!

Walter

That must have been a big gap to go from flip phone to touch screen one I remember when I was a kid and I first saw touch screen phone though at that time touch screen phones usually used to come with a pen like thing through which you touch the screen.

 

[whywere]

That must have been a big gap to go from flip phone to touch screen one I remember when I was a kid and I first saw touch screen phone though at that time touch screen phones usually used to come with a pen like thing through which you touch the screen.

HI! YES, there was a learning curve for me. I overall switched because I am job hunting and it seems like employers now like to be able to instantly have a person fill out forms, so I got a smart phone for that and some aspects of it drive me up a wall, as far as learning about it.

Older person here, with new tricks (smart phone) to get used to.

Walter

 

[TriggerHappy]

IPhone. Macbaby thru and thru.
I played with AppleMacs when the logo was a pride rainbow apple, and societypeeps were preaching dos vs Linux.
I'm a Paranoid Android (with tx to Radiohead) :: i love my iPhone, but hate the device :: tracking & stalking experiences are way uglier than u can ever imagine.
Mobie device media/ marketing :: all I see are app dev dhtml cascading style sheets - &when you know how the magic show works it just ain't fun anymore - so I shovel pigshit barefoot and ride nguni bulls on the farm instead.
Possiblymaybe but I'm still not fulfilled. I don't know if I want my banking info chipped on my wrist (would get into loads of trouble when masturbating!) when im inebriated i always think it'd be a great idea... & also maybe dna bike keys, forever losing those fuckers in my pockets /backpack / up my clients bums! Joke.
Now if they came up with a mobile sextoy device. Internally visceral (porn), yeah we'd keep the vibration function, but imagine if we added a tazer / shock element...
... and I'm back onto the sexual fetishes thread, oh Tess I need you!

 

[LastWhisper]

iOS devices are too expensive where I'm living comparing to Android, so I never had ones (and I don't think I really need it). My LG phone had served for me for around 3 years until it's display stopped reacted to any touch properly. Now I have another phone, bought it 3 years ago, works perfect. It does not support Google Services at all cuz it's Chinese, it has some chinese apps instead. And while I was removing all that crap, I accidentally removed an app called Network Location (In forums said it's will not affect anything) and now no navigation app can detect my location properly XD.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Android.

 

[Meditation guide]

I've had the same Samsung phone for over five years.

 

[wanttodie]

Android

 

[Skathon]

What kind of phone do you use then? Windows? They haven't been made for years...

An old Nokia (with physical buttons). I hate touchscreens.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

I use both Android and Iphone. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, it just depends on what I'm doing.

 

[nex]

I'm no Apple hater, I think most of the time their products are pretty high quality (when they're not completely fucking up like with the iPhone 4 and "you're holding it wrong"--an Apple product can be a miserable failure just like any of their competitors' ones).

I once had a MacBook Pro and an iPad, and I moved away from that because I found them too restrictive. The iPad forced me to use the iTunes app on Windows for transferring music files, which even aside from the restrictions wouldn't have been so bad if it had actually worked. the iTunes app crashed Windows whenever I was connecting the iPad.

My phone at the time was a Sony XPeria S. That phone's software worked perfectly and it made ripping music and transferring it between devices a breeze. I can't stress this enough. 2011 Sony software destroyed yours. You failed miserably.

There were other issues, like why could I have widgets and icons arranged on my Android home screens in whatever way I wanted, just like on my desktop? Why is iOS limited to that primitive top-left to bottom-right arrangement of icons?

And of course, I can just connect my Android phone to my PC and I just have access to its file system and can copy over whatever I want.

It's not like I don't see the appeal of Apple products, but as far as I'm concerned, thanks I'm good.