not joking though, being able to raise my wrist and say "ten minutes" to the apple watch for a timer, and to have the thing tap me to remind me to take my meds or to wake me up in the morning, has produced a dramatic improvement in multiple parts of my life. I no longer have to have my phone wake me up with a hideous series of sirens and naval alert tones that requires me to shake it for 30s to turn them off
the thing is a model or three out of date and the screen glass is slightly cracked and it's fine.
Apple is a bad company in a lot of way that everyone is very familiar with at this point, but there is something to be said for the fact they seem to be the only tech giant in the world with an ethos for making products that fucking work.
Like, you can't do everything with an Apple product. That's the reason computer dorks don't like them - iOS devices don't even want you to know they're computers. But that's how Apple is able to ensure everything you can do is guaranteed to work almost perfectly, almost all of the time. The rare occurrence of a bug is on Apple's head and Apple will be the first to rush to patch it since their devices are owned by millions of people who will immediately notice those flaws.
I can't watch fucking webms on this iPhone without downloading them into VLC and its idea of "files" is fake but God damn does it do everything it does do well and I no longer have to do everything myself. 10 years of using android feels like I've been banging rocks together to knap my own phone tools all this time
I love to tinker with things! Android lets you mess with a lot of stuff!
And then your fucking phone doesn’t work. Your alarms don’t go off. You use the phone for a year and then need to factory reset because it’s buggy and slow
When I have the urge to tinker, I’ve got my desktop. My pile of vintage computers, my steam deck. I need my phone to be a phone at a moment’s notice, and iOS has never fucked that up for me.
