Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "The iPhone 14" video.

It's kind of funny to me that Apple's anti-consumer practices lead the way with every other company scrambling to keep up, yet every time they get a cool "new" feature that keeps the zombies locked in to that walled garden, Android had it first. Humanity is doomed.
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@arandomhumanbeing2464 Working differently doesn't mean worse. iOS users expect things a certain way, so a feature might only get copied once they can figure out how it works in their ecosystem, and sometimes it doesn't which is why not every feature gets copied. On a tangent, what does that say about Windows when it copies all of its ideas from elsewhere and makes them worse?
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@pluto8404 Meta definitely sucks, but they're not the only one pushing for that future. It's all of them.
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@oceanbytez847 Hopefully Linux phones become viable and we stop having these issues. But I'm not holding my breath.
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@arandomhumanbeing2464 Sure, don't activate the feature, but if someone wants your data they'll see that it's an iPhone and won't know the feature isn't on. I don't worry about being kidnapped because I don't live in a big city, but a lot of people do and cities are getting worse these days.
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@arandomhumanbeing2464 Are you claiming that merely closing your eyes will make it cease to function? Because I've seen them be unlocked with eyes shut. Yes, iPhones, and if someone is dead, you can easily pull their eyelids back anyway.
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@arandomhumanbeing2464 Do you have any examples of where you think Android is not different but equal and instead worse?
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@quazar-omega Luckily they aren't the only ones pushing for Linux phones, but if they're doing anything wrong, hopefully they'll get their act together because the more choice we have in that regard the better.
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@quazar-omega It would indeed as affordability is one of the stumbling blocks to getting the average person to adopt it. But I'm still hopeful as long as there's at least one. And there's always the DIY method for those like me who could and would if all else fails. There are various RPi projects to make your own phone.
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@toshineon To an extent that's actually true, but not merely based on a whim, rather on what kind of network your phone is capable of communicating with. It's ridiculous that they don't all use the same communication technology so you can use any device you want, but that's the joke of a world we live in. You get certain freedoms there that we don't get, and we get a shitton of freedoms here that you don't get. It's a tradeoff.
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@arandomhumanbeing2464 So Android didn't actually make the features worse, they just didn't have the hardware to make them better than default. And Face ID is actually an anti-feature. It's short term security at the cost of privacy and in the long term if someone wants to steal your data or device they'll kidnap you with it and kill you after. With a passcode they'll just take the device. True security would be in not having anything sensitive on a mobile device, but then why bother with locking it.
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@arandomhumanbeing2464 With a fingerprint scanner they'd only need to chop off a finger or your hand. You're more likely to survive in such an incident.
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