[rickstanley]

I bought an iPhone last year. I started regretting it after 3 months of usage. Trivial things are a burden to set up, like:

- custom ringtone;

- emulators;

- lock screen rotation in landscape;

- listen to music from local storage without an Apple subscription;

I could go on and on. Most of them have solutions, but again, a burden to configure compared to an Android device. My next smartphone will be Android, once again. I just wish small smartphones were more common and had battery life comparable to Apple's.

I bought a second hand MacBook Pro 2015 to use Linux on. I'll let Asahi cook a bit more before moving to an M series.

[soraminazuki]

> listen to music from local storage without an Apple subscription

That this is a burden to do is straight up false. Playing from local storage works the same as it did since the days of the iPod.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

I stood in line on launch day in June 2007 for the first iPhone, and used one exclusively until 2022 when I started running it side-by-side with a Pixel running GrapheneOS.

I personally tried it with Apple Music and it did not work if you had no connectivity — and, in fact, because about half of the app itself appears to be loaded on demand, parts of the UI were non-functional as well.

Also, it was not possible for me to download the equivalent of my Discover Weekly playlist for use offline; it HAD to be streamed for each. and. every. play.

I gave up and went back to Spotify. A few months later, I wiped the iPhone and sold it, leaving me with GrapheneOS exclusively.

Just last night I wiped the storage of my last Mac and it will be given away.

Given the direction Apple is going, I made the right call, which is a damn shame.

[greyface-]

A few months ago, I asked Siri to play a specific song from my iTunes library. I've done this successfully many times before, but this time it misunderstood which song I requested. The song it thought I asked for wasn't present in my library, but it was present in Apple Music. Without asking for confirmation, it enrolled me in a trial subscription and begin streaming.