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Ask HN: Android or iOS for a Linux and FOSS user in 2024?
Today it seems more impossible than ever to decide. As a lifelong Android user, I'm wondering whether I should switch to iOS.
But why? Because I'm fed up with changing smartphone for the sole reason that there are no more software updates!
You'll tell me to get a Google Pixel and get 7 years of updates. Agreed, but the price isn't as good and it seems a little less quality than an iPhone.
I'm a daily user of free and opensource software, with Linux on all my PCs. My emails, calendar, contacts, photos, files... are not hosted by GAFAM and I want to keep it that way. My main use for my smartphone: photos, GPS, web reading, RSS reading, chatting. That's about it.
In terms of smartphones, you always have to choose between the plague and the colera, between Google or Apple.
So what's the best choice in 2024 for a user like me, iOS or Android?