Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : acn
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Apr 20 2022 06:44:00

-=> acn wrote to The Millionaire <=-

 ac> I used to have an iPhone 4 and loved it - until iOS 7 came out and
 ac> made it absolutely unusable. I walked to an official Apple Store and
 ac> asked how I could revert to iOS 6, they said "it's impossible" - and I
 ac> walked out of the shop, right into another shop and bought a Galaxy
 ac> S4.
 ac> Since then, I'm using Android, which also has its rough edges, but did
 ac> not cripple my devices (yet). And the devices I bought were 'open
 ac> enough' that I could install alternative systems.

I had the best of both worlds for a time. Work paid for a nice iPhone 6s 
with a good amount of storage, but I started playing with an old Samsung S3 
and liked the promise that Android had back then. Then, I was laid off, 
returned the iPhone and switched to the S3 permanently.

I love the ecosystem, being able to pick apps, root the device, run Linux on 
it if I really wanted to, and even ran a third party Android distro for a 
while (LineageOS).

My son is 18, all of his friends have Android. My daughter is 12, and all of 
her friends have iPhones. Weird. It's a problem because her friends want to 
FaceTime with her, and I don't know of a kid in her class running Android. I 
guess that's exactly as Apple planned...




 ac> I also loved my old PowerBook G4 that I bought many years ago and the
 ac> iMac 21" from 2010 - but here Apple also crippled the system and
 ac> dumbed-down everything (I loved Apple Pages until it could not even
 ac> read its own old documents correctly after a major update), so I
 ac> installed Linux on the iMac and used it for some years as a Linux
 ac> system. That was my last Apple computer.

 ac> Regards,
 ac> Anna


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