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GREEDY rapacious hungry ghost evil Phoenician pieces of shite that purposely do planned obsolescence of a three year old 2020 model iPad – it is slowed so much that Safari works slower than a 1998 Windows PC connected to a 1200 baud modem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/applesucks

Apple adds pregnant man 🤮 and gender-neutral emojis to iPhones - https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man 🤮 - “he” must have morning sickness 🤢

Let's be clear: I utterly loathe Apple. Apple is anathema.

https://www.simplymac.com/ios/it-just-works-no-more-users-question-apples-software-quality-as-overall-sentiment-points-to-declining-software-quality

Several times a momth Apple iOS Mail will drop the focus of the current email to the last email in the inbox. This means it is 15 years behind. I must scroll up by finger flicking HUNDREDS of fucking times until I get back to the present. No other email has this “feature”

“Ever since Tim Cook became the new CEO of Apple, they've just been going downhill. I've been meaning to write this rant for months so I can use it whenever the argument comes up, but have been putting it off. I hate Apple and I am an Android user, so if you're looking for an unbiased rant this is definitely not it. In this rant I will highlight everything I hate about Apple, and why you should never support them or buy any of their products. This is a throwaway account so iOS fanboys don't attack everything I know. Let's hop right in to it:

Planned Obsolescence

Every device gets obsolete over time, with the latest updates (system & apps) demanding more resources that it can't provide. But Apple does this on purpose. Their OS detects what phone you have, and if it's old enough they'll slow it down on purpose, so you feel like you have to buy a new phone. They've been doing/planning this for years, and they still do.

iTunes

iTunes is literal garbage, and it's almost insulting. Why do I need a program, just to access most of my phone's contents? On Android, you can read and write all of the phones contents, while on iPhones, you can only read/copy over pictures and videos without installing iTunes. I am competent enough to drag files to and from my device, and I could do that if iPhones weren't read-only without their program. Installing iTunes on any non-Apple computer always puts hidden useless bloatware and files on your computer, like “iPad Service” “iPod Service” and even if I uninstall they never completely remove everything, every nook and cranny of my programs folders now has Apple garbage in them. Also why do you need an iCloud account just to download apps from the app store? They treat us like babies.

Costs more, does less

Why do Apple's newest phones cost over $1,000? I could buy an epic gaming PC with that money, or even a car if I'm lucky. The new “budget” iPhone 12 mini for $730 has the same price as the average Android, which can do more than their most expensive iPhone. Quite literally and quite literally. Jailbreaking your iPhone introduces features that already come with stock Android. And don't even get me started on their storage prices, storage is cheap nowadays yet they want you to pay big bucks a month while on Android you make a one time payment for a microSD card of your choice and you never have to pay again!! Seriously.e

Android has way more customizability

On an iPhone, you can't customize more than changing your wallpaper and turning on dark mode. On Android, you can download whatever phone scheme you want (from the galaxy themes app on samsung phones) and change the entire look of your phone (including the keyboard).

Many more companies that make Android phones

Because Android is open source, you will find many more manufacturers of Android phones than of iOS phones. This means you have many more options when it comes to what features you want and your budget. Apple users will claim that it's easier to buy from one company and a closed source, but it's really not, you're just lazy. Since there's many more options, if there's a company you don't like and has been making bad decisions recently (specifically samsung) then you can just go to another one.

Apple is anti-consumer

Apple is so anti-consumer that it's overlooked by everyone. They removed the headphone jack, a feature every phone besides their newest ones has had for the last 15 years, so that they can charge you for a dongle just so you can use the headphone jack and charge at the same time. Like wtf, that makes absolutely no sense. If you're going to sell a headphone jack dongle, just include a goddamn headphone jack in your phones. They claim there's “no space” in the phone for the headphone jack, but that's an utter lie. You also have to buy dongles,JUST TO USE USB (not type C) on the newest MacBooks. That completely defeats the purpose of it being a portable laptop. If I wanted to use a million dongles just to use common USB items then I would've gotten a desktop computer. If I wanted a more portable option with less features then I would've just bought a phone. Just because it's thinner and has no fans doesn't mean it's better at all, stop removing ports from your computers Apple. Another thing they removed was the fingerprint sensor. Android phones have more ways to unlock your phone than you can count on one hand, and that includes both face recognition and a fingerprint sensor. They could've put the fingerprint sensor on the Apple logo on the back of their phones ever since the home button was removed, but they won't. They also tried suing a repair shop owner by the name of Henrik Huseby, who was apparently repairing iPhones with “non-genuine” parts. Apple, you must understand that once you buy the phone, you can do whatever the hell you want with it, because you own it. It's that simple. Apple also claims to want to “reduce environmental waste” while at the same time, the iPhone 12 is so ridiculously anti-repair that it's nearly impossible to do anything to it unless you send it to the “geniuses” over at Apple, which effectively creates more waste than they've ever saved.

iPhones are very fragile

Dropping your iPhone that's made completely out of glass from a foot off the ground is a guaranteed way to have it shatter in to a million pieces, so you better be careful because you paid over $1,000 for that phone. (And if you shatter the back glass, it's difficult to repair so you're better off just buying a new phone or sticking with shattered glass)

Permanent notifications, in the settings app

On both my old iPhone and my old iPad they had permanent notifications that you couldn't get rid of, in the settings app (stupidest app for that) to set up random things like Apple pay and 2FA, and if you ignore the notifications they'll just come back up. This is very annoying.

Stealing features from Android, then making a big deal out of it

With the last few iPhones, Apple has been making a big deal out of the new features they added, most of which Android has had for years. (Refer back to “Costs more, does less”) things like widgets, swipe typing, default apps, 5G and more. (Yes, I know Android didn't create 5G, it's that Apple took so long to add it to their phones when the first 5G phones came out long before the iPhone 12. Be quiet Apple fans.)

They don't include a charger or earbuds now

It's always expected of phone manufacturers that they include at least a charger with their phones, but Apple can't even do that, and now you have to pay for it separately? Seriously, who the hell thought that was a good idea? And they're supposedly a “luxury” brand, yet can't even include cheap earbuds with new phones. This proves that they truly only care about the money.

Android is much better for gaming

The newest iPhone 12 only has 6GB of ram and 6 cores while a Huawei phone released 2 years ago has 8GB of ram and 8 cores, plus you can overclock your CPU and GPU on Android phones, so you're guaranteed to have a better gaming experience on the newest Android phones rather than the newest iPhones.

No third party app stores or APKs on iOS

If there's not an app available on the play store, you can download it in the form of an APK or a third party app store. Apple would never do that because they're so controlling of everything they sell. I know this makes piracy much easier, but that's really not a big deal.

Some things Apple fans say on this topic are “It just works” Only if you have the newest phone which costs big bucks. (Refer back to “Planned Obsolescence”) “It's simple and friendly, Android is too complex and I don't like the look of it” This is by far the dumbest one I've heard, Android is not complex at all, It's only complex if you make it complex. Android is just as friendly as iOS. If you don't like the look of it, you can customize it to look the way you want. (Refer back to “Android has way more customizability”) “Brokedroid” “Every Android I've ever used is shit” Brokedroid? Lmao. So apparently now I can be unironically ridiculed because I didn't spend over $1,000 on my phone? iPhone, more like ShitePhone. If every Android phone you've ever used is shit, then you're using old garbage Android phones, use a newer one before you come to that conclusion.

Apple was founded on April fools day, because their company is a joke. The biggest joke ever.

That's about all I could think of and all I have to say about this topic, thank you for reading my rant. If you have anything for me to add to this rant (whether you like android or apple), comment it and I'll add it.

Update: Here's more things I recently found out:

During the Hong Kong Protests, Apple sided with China, removing a HK protest map from their app store. Source

They fucking stand with China? China is a communist dictatorship and has one of the most corrupt governments in the world, this is proof they absolutely are evil. According to Apple: “We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps. We have learned that an app, HKmap.live*, has been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong. Many concerned customers in Hong Kong have contacted us about this app and we immediately began investigating it. The app displays police locations and we have verified with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau that the app has been used to target and ambush police, threaten public safety, and criminals have used it to victimize residents in areas where they know there is no law enforcement. This app violates our guidelines and local laws, and we have removed it from the App Store.*”

Endangering law enforcement and residents? Apple is either lying (which is the most probable answer) or they're just fucking stupid and haven't done any research before removing this app. I bet 90% of these “reports” coming from “concerned customers” in HK are total bullshit. There are lots of apps and products you can buy to display the location of and listen to police radios. Apple is so fucking stupid.

Apple bought the brand/company Beats just to kill them off and redirect people to their services

So everyone knows about Beats by Dre, they were popular before Apple bought them. But Apple saw the competition, and bought Beats just to kill them off. That's why they have been slowly fading from peoples minds ever since the big purchase. Here's a video about it

$1,000 piece of metal (the mac stand), $700 small plastic wheels (the mac pro wheels) and the $300 book literally filled with just images of old Apple products that probably took 10 minutes to “design”. 3 letters: W h y ?

Another Update: (Yep, I'm still here and haven't forgotten about this beautiful resource I've created.)

Apple has announced they are going to use AI machine learning to scan your devices (CSAM) to detect images that matches a database of hashes from known illegal files (Such as CP) If a certain threshold of matches is reached, Apple will alert the authorities and you could be triggered for a search.

Now, on paper, this sounds like a cool and beneficial idea. In practice though, this is fucking TERRIBLE for privacy. Especially when considering all of the lies from Apple I've listed in this thread, I sure as fuck don't believe for a second that they're going to respect your privacy with this. This technology could be used to easily scan for basically ANYTHING. And we'll never have any idea because iOS is closed source. One might say Android would do this too, but nope. Android is open source, baby. (Rooting/ROM flashing exists too) Imagine if they DIDN'T announce this, who knows what other things they could be pulling in their iLab at the moment? (But I'll admit I gotta hand it to them though, whoever came up with this idea is a genius who's going to make them billions off of the sold information they're gonna collect by scanning peoples phones for various things through this backdoor to your private life!)

Apple has been all about privacy lately (or so they say, but we all know they lie about that too) and then they go and pull this shit? GG Apple! What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone my ass. It was kind of weird how they suddenly just started being all about saving the environment so suddenly, then being all about privacy so suddenly, now it's about protecting children? It's the SaveTheKids scam all over again! (Or, just maybe because it's just a lie that they put out in a scheme to make a couple billion more dollars) (And yes, I watch muta.)”

https://www.reddit.com/r/applesucks/comments/jwlo75/rant_on_why_i_hate_apple/?rdt=53945

https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/jupvdz/macos_big_sur_update_bricking_some_older_macbook

https://www.reddit.com/r/applesucks/comments/trjwy4/how_did_you_realized_apple_sucks

• Apple Sucks!
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1ddlfzr/ios18_what_happened_to_safari_reader_mode

• Windows SUCKS! - Windows Update SUCKS!! is a useless piece of turd! SOOOO nightmarishly unreliable. Crashes the OS. Why after 30 years can't Microsoft still get it right?!!
• macOS sucks!!! even more. iOS sucks!!!! the most!
• Linux sucks! the least.

Snippet from Wikipedia: Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with US$391.04 billion in the 2024 fiscal year.

The company was founded to produce and market Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Its second computer, the Apple II, became a best seller as one of the first mass-produced microcomputers. Apple introduced the Lisa in 1983 and the Macintosh in 1984, as some of the first computers to use a graphical user interface and a mouse. By 1985, internal company problems led to Jobs leaving to form NeXT, Inc., and Wozniak withdrawing to other ventures; John Sculley served as long-time CEO for over a decade. In the 1990s, Apple lost considerable market share in the personal computer industry to the lower-priced Wintel duopoly of the Microsoft Windows operating system on Intel-powered PC clones. In 1997, Apple was weeks away from bankruptcy. To resolve its failed operating system strategy, it bought NeXT, effectively bringing Jobs back to the company, who guided Apple back to profitability over the next decade with the introductions of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices to critical acclaim as well as the iTunes Store, launching the "Think different" advertising campaign, and opening the Apple Store retail chain. These moves elevated Apple to consistently be one of the world's most valuable brands since about 2010. Jobs resigned in 2011 for health reasons, and died two months later; he was succeeded as CEO by Tim Cook.

Apple's current product lineup includes portable and home hardware such as the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV; operating systems such as iOS, iPadOS, and macOS; and various software and services including Apple Pay, iCloud, and multimedia streaming services like Apple Music and Apple TV+. Apple is one of the Big Five American information technology companies; for the most part since 2011, Apple has been the world's largest company by market capitalization, and, as of 2023, is the largest manufacturing company by revenue, the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales, the largest vendor of tablet computers, and the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world. Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion in 2018, and, as of December 2024, is valued at just over $3.74 trillion.

Apple has received criticism regarding its contractors' labor practices, its relationship with trade unions, its environmental practices, and its business ethics, including anti-competitive practices and materials sourcing. Nevertheless, the company has a large following and enjoys a high level of brand loyalty.

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