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Title: So I got an iPhone
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Date: 2017-02-11T17:38+01:00
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Author: Wxcafé
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Category: misc
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Slug: so-i-got-an-iphone
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So I've been using an Android phone since I got an HTC Desire HD, I think in
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late 2010, so for a little over 7 years. I went from 2.2 Froyo to 6.0.1
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Marshmallow, and used basically all of the versions in between except
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Honeycomb (3.x).
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Before that, I had an iPhone 3GS, which I had a great deal of fun jailbreaking
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on iPhone OS 3.1.2/3.1.3, and gave up at the end of iOS 4.
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Of course, I had a lot of fun playing with the android phones too, flashing the
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bootloaders, installing "custom ROMs", and even different OSes on some of them.
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That was all fine when I was looking to *play* with my phones, I had *time* to
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do so, and it didn't really matter to me if things were broken half the time.
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I'm not in that situation anymore. As sad as it makes me to admit it, android,
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or at least the experience I've had with it, doesn't work consistently. There
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are always small things that are broken that you have to constantly fix. There's
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always that *thing* that should work fine but doesn't. And then there's the
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security aspect, which, I'm not even going to *try* going in there. Go look at
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the list of CVEs on Android, look at those that are over severity 9, and have
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a good laugh (or a good scare I guess).
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Anyway, my phone (a Moto X Play, so supposedly a pretty flagship, not too
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modified android phone) was starting to require a reboot a day to keep on
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receiving texts, which was /a slight problem/ to me. I couldn't fix it by
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installing a clean "ROM", because for all the ones I've tested with this phone
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either the radio (so 2G/3G/4G) OR the wifi stops working, which is, as they say,
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not optimal. I tried to fix it, nobody had the same problem, I couldn't figure
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out where it was coming from, whatever.
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So I got an iPhone. Of course, another part in this is that I now have a regular
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income, so buying an iPhone doesn't mean eating pasta for two or three months
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anymore.
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Anyway. I bought an iPhone SE, because I want a headphones jack, and it was
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cheaper. I can't just churn out 770€ for a phone, even when I have regular
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income. My first impression of that phone was that it was very lightweight, the
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screen was pretty small, and it looked and felt very good. Everything looks like
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it makes sense, on that phone.
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The "first time on" experience is very good, with everything working fine, no
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popups interrupting you from typing, the importation of data from your old phone
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(be it an Android phone or an iPhone) is very easy and works perfectly. The
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settings are all in one place, the third-party software works generally better
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than on Android (okay, my bank's app doesn't work that well, but what do you
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expect from a bank...). I have working push notifications in all my messaging
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apps. My emails are not in an app called "Gmail", but in an app called "emails".
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I don't need a google account to use my phone. I *need* an apple account only to
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get apps, but since that's all I do with apple they have far less information on
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me than google has in the same situation.
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For some reason, even though the screen is smaller, the soft keyboard seems to
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work better for me, I hit the keys that I want more often, which is a pretty
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important thing because autocorrect doesn't always work for me, since I type in
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two languages using the same keyboard. AUTOCORRECT WORKS FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
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OUT OF THE BOX! You don't need to download a recent update to Google Keyboard to
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be able to enable it in a submenu of the settings, you just get the dictionary
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and it starts correcting in multiple languages.
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Okay, let's talk about things I miss:
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Firstly, I miss having [Twidere](https://github.com/mariotaku/twidere) with an
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official twitter API key. Being able to have all the features of the official
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twitter client in an app that doesn't suck (and Twidere is actually amazing).
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I use [Tweetbot](https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/) instead, and it's great, but
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since it doesn't use the leaked official Twitter API keys, it can't do what
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Twidere does. I guess that's on twitter being assholes.
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Secondly, I miss being able to copy files from my computers to my phone. Android
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phones use MTP, which is a shitty protocol but works with Linux and Windows (and
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very badly with OSX). iPhones use the iTunes sync thingy, which works for OSX
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and Windows as long as you have iTunes installed, aaaaaand doesn't on Linux.
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Well, there's [libimobiledevice](http://www.libimobiledevice.org/), which at the
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time I was using an iPhone 3GS was described as "teaching penguins to talk to
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fruits". It works, but the version packaged on debian is not the latest one, so
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it can't talk to iOS 10. I tried installing the latest one manually, which
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worked, but for some reason the desktop still can't detect the iPhone, so I can
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mount it with `ifuse` but I can't do anything with it since none of the software
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that could use that mount actually detect it. Anyway.
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Third, I miss... wait, no, actually, I think that's it. Everything else works
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just the way I want.
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Anyway, that was the story of how I got an iPhone. I won't be jailbreaking it,
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but I'll be posting stuff here if I find out how to make that thing work with my
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Linux computers.
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