• Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    " We’re Really™ committed to an alternative that is not similar in maturity or useable in the same way, while only speaking of it after the fact, and while giving no explanation for the change. " Right…

    Well, cool, thanks! I just love it when corporations choose to destroy value from my devices years after purchase without my consent.

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    I remember when the Nexus was the open reference device that you could play with. The Pixel is now as closed as an iPhone. Thanks Google!

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      The sentiment is valid, but being as closed as an iPhone is quite an exaggeration. You can’t even use a different keyboard on an iPhone let alone a different launcher or lock screen lol

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        You can definitely use a third party keyboard on iphone. They only force you to use their keyboard when entering passwords, which I can undestand their argument for.

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          Yeah. I remember using a custom keyboard back when I had an iPhone 4S lol

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      They didn’t say anything about not removing pixels from the tree, which is what people are complaining about. So yeah, they pretty much did.