0 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 18 Aug \ on: iOS 18.1 offers API for 3rd-Party Apps to Offer In-App NFC Transactions lightning
This maybe the reason I will remain an Apple cuck. Can’t deny good hardware with great software especially if bitcoin developers keep working on this tech stack
I struggle with this myself. I want to go 100% grapheneos because I'm fairly sure apple is hoovering up a bunch of my phone usage data, but ios and iphone hardware is pretty hard to wean off of.
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Yeah maybe my next phone I should buy both an iPhone and a graphene phone. Maybe might be a big waste of sats but I like tech and phones. Plus I can see if it’s really worth switching.
But my true canary in the coal mine is when bitcoin applications stop showing up on the App Store or Damus and Zeus stop developing IOS clients.
You know Apple is a public company just a few trillion dollars and we can buy them and implement the policies we want!!
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Yeah, I have both, but I'll be honest its quite challenging to really 'try' the graphene phone outside of special circumstances when I can fall back to the iphone for daily use. Perhaps its because I've used an iPhone for a decade, but its so much more intuitive to me. Also I like the consistency between apps and interfaces.
I also use google voice (voip numbers) for work/business/throwaway purposes and it feels less intrusive on an iphone than on android. Google accounts logged into graphene/android seem like "system level accounts" vs. on an iphone if that makes sense.
Ultimately, I like knowing the graphene phone exists and having one to play around with, but similar to you, I'm not sure I'll ever transition fully until I'm "forced to". Perhaps apple's implementation of AI features will be what pushes me over the edge to go all in on graphene. Their on device scanning is what scared me into buying a pixel and flashing graphene in the first place, but then they backed away from it...
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Yeah this is what I fear. In the early days (Samsung galaxy 4 or 5 I’m talking ) Android was so buggy. My keyboard was randomly disappear and I would have to restart the keyboard app. But yeah I’m like you. Once apple goes a step too far then I’m done foreal!
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