It just feels more premium than android. It’s easier to go from one to the next without a big learning curve

Depends on how long “a while ago” is and where you bought it from. If you’re outside of a returns period your best bet is probably to sell the 14 and buy the 14 pro with the profits.

You could do a trade in through Apple, but I don’t think you’d recover as much of the value as selling the phone.

Haha I was going for a retro vibe.

iPhone 11, it will be supported the longest. The only concession is the fact that the 11 has a LCD screen vs the OLED screen in the XS.

Not that

No they hold value pretty well because they’re supported for so long

same.

Apple is a large, for profit company. If they thought replacing all Apple services with Google ones would make the their executives more money during their lifetimes, they would. If they thought painting all the world’s bananas blue or promoting flat earth on Twitter would make them more money, they’d do it in a heart beat. Whatever they do, say, endorse, or sell it is for one reason and one reason only. Same for Google, Microsoft, etc.

Yeah I do remember that.

Is that when I remember putting the phone in the cupholder upside down so the cord wouldn't get messed up? Touch ID era phones? It has been a while I guess.

Apple is a company, it doesn’t feel anything. It’s managed by professionals who act logically. It’s management is appointed by people who want to see growth in return for their investment. Apple will do whatever is best for Apple.

What’s best for Apple is being independent from other companies, especially from competitors. So yes, they are working on replacing Google services.

Whether they are successful with that is another question. Translate and Maps aren’t even close to being a full replacement for Google’s services. But that’s ok because users can still use Google’s alternatives like they used to while Apple is improving their own.

They will be much more hesitant with anything that replaces an existing integration (e.g. default search engine) because that would confuse users. Confused users are unhappy users, unhappy users are more likely to switch to competitors, users switching to competitors hurt the bottom line of the company and that conflicts with the management’s interests.

My first iPhone was the 3G. I was in high school and I believe it was only available on AT&T. My family had Verizon. I got my first job and switched to AT&T and hopped on my own phone plan just for an iPhone. I gave away my free phone plan for it haha.

Eventually all carriers had it and I just stayed on att lmao. Now the eco system has me locked in. I actually enjoy Samsung phones a lot, but being in the US it’s difficult to get around the iMessage situation. All other devices I have are from apple but there’s generally some sort of equivalent on the other side.

Yeah by shutdown does that mean battery died? And is that approximately 1am is there a way to see the precise time when your phone dies not just for this day id like to see if for others? Thank you

Weird, so is mine but its fixed for me

How tf

I can stop using Google search anytime. Even now, I use it exclusively in Firefox Focus so I'm not tracked.

Sheets is just for work. It's not on my personal device.

YouTube I do use quite often in the Brave browser to be fair.

I guess what I was trying to say is that I don't use that much Google shit as-is, and I am all for giving up Google entirely as better alternatives emerge.

It’s insane. A ton of simple slip on cases go for $40 or more. I think the case is UAG brand, but it’s a rugged slip on case with some Kevlar on it and it’s 90 freaking dollars. OtterBox has a simple hard shell that is $40…..

It’s actually been hard for me to find a good case that isn’t stupidly overpriced. Spigen is fine but I find them kinda ugly and the material isn’t my favorite. I just settled for a $40 Speck case I got for $20

At night, it shows upcoming days. During days, it shows upcoming hours.

Been this way since the release of iOS 16.

This article talks about things that happened 10 years ago. Other than Apple selling the default search engine setting to Google, there hasn’t been anything from Google on the iPhone in a very long time.

So you do, in fact, use Google services.

I'm fine with this. Google shit is annoying. I don't use any Google services besides Sheets out of necessity for work.

edit: Also use Google search and YouTube but only in browsers that block ads and tracking.

Reliability and ecosystem.

What the heck are you talking about Google pays Apple close to 20 billion a year to be the default search on the iPhone.

That is pure profit! Apple is not giving that up unless Bing offers more. And even then they will not switch because everyone wants Google search results.

If I don’t have google services in iPhone anymore I go back to android

Less bloatware

Less issues. I’ll still have a tiny issue here and there but nothing like I did with Androids. Pixels were great in a lot of ways but I had so many problems with them.

Great ecosystem

Customer support is light years ahead of the competition.

Yes, and?

Those are all apps you can download voluntarily. Apple isn’t going to ban Google apps from the App Store. That’s not what the article is about.