• NightOwl@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Including the most basic task of plugging in an Android phone to access files on MacOS. It just works on Linux or Windows, but with MacOS I had to go the extra step of having to download and install Android File Transfer. And then wasn’t even able to preview pics from the phone storage and had to move the files to the PC.

    Apple probably wants people to go I should get an iPhone. But, given the experience of how it just works on Windows and Linux my thought was wow Apple is shit at compatability with everything that isn’t Apple.

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      1 year ago

      Most people aren’t plugging their phones into their computers. I’m an IT guy and I’ve never plugged my iPhones into my pc, nor the last 5+ android phones.

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        1 year ago

        Okay. Good for you. But that wasn’t my complaint. It’s that it just works on Windows or Linux.

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          1 year ago

          My point is that plugging your iPhone into a computer isn’t something most people do so it’s not prioritised as being important.

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            1 year ago

            Okay? I wasn’t asking about other people, but expressing something I expected to be a basic function. And it was an Android phone I was talking about not an iPhone.

            The comment chain talking was discussing how Apple will make things slightly less functional for products that aren’t Apple. Not an inquiry about how others use Apple products.