Not to mention FI is cheap as hell if you use internet mostly over wifi.
Edit: bloat, not boost
What tangible harm is it doing that makes you think you can't live with it? If there's a Facebook binary on my phone that I've never logged into, is it doing anything? Is Candy Crush playing itself in the background if I never launch it?
Couldn't it? Apps can start without ever being launched by the user, or continue running in the background after they are "closed", and that means that they can collect data then send it home or to third parties. There's a ton of things an app can do without any permissions or indicating to the user that anything is happening. It's been used for things like listening for audio beacons and reporting them when overheard.
I wouldn't want to trust a company like facebook to not abuse every option available to them to collect data. There's also a problem with vulnerabilities. That "unused" facebook binary might contain a flaw that could be exploited. Getting rid of installed applications you don't need/want is a good way to reduce your attack surface.
Android does not do the 'phone' part right. I constantly complain of a friend with his new expensive s23 or whatever that acts like a cheap phone whenever he gets in a group call and my whole group complains of the ear shattering noise and artifacts from his side immediately (nothing at all wrong with all of our iphones). It was bad enough we couldn't do higher quality facetime audio together, but the expensive phone's hardware on wasn't even good for various apps we tried to talk through.
From another thread they aren't even good at web browsing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729397 the entire ecosystem of Android is a mostly poorly cobbled together mobile Linux computer aiming to lower costs as much as possible to sell you ads. Notice how older iphones with worst specs are still working fine?
Still my Samsung S3 with it's forward thinking 2gb of ram in 2012 (4x the 512 in the iPhone 4s) is still sometimes being used as a Linux computer for me in 2024. Awful mic on it then as well.
Sure the hardware might be better but the software though... Anything related to icloud, the appstore and the accounts themselves looks like it's holding up together with duck tape.
> The internet is full of threads of people with this exact problem but there's never any documented way to fix anything in an iPhone, it either fully works or good luck.
Is that hyperbole? There's a video of a guy putting a headphone jack in an iphone 7.
