I was an iOS supporter until iphone 5 then I discovered the beauty and freedom of Android.

To this day with Samsung s22+

But currently I am a bit tired, there is no android phone that I am passionate about, oneplus has given me nothing but problems, Samsung with exynos is a disaster (not to mention the new blockages at sideload and the green stripes on the display), I don’t even want to go near all the other Chinese brands, and Nothing is not what it promised to be.

I want to go back to iOS but there are a few things holding me back:

  • how can sideload be managed on iOS? Are there modified apps like youtube, reddit?

  • I follow a lot of NSFW channels on telegram, discord and reddit itself, are there any problems on iOS? are there ways around this? (my girlfriend has iOS, and every time I want to forward an nsfw gif she doesn’t see it)

  • surf the sea, is it complex on ios? Especially in terms of gaming?

TBH only yt, nsfw and modded apk keep me on android. Thanks a lot in advance

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    Normally I wouldn’t worry about it, Samsung just apes everything Google does. It’s part of their tug of war, basically Samsung is saying “if you ever pull a Huawei on me and disable every Google feature I’ll still have a copy of everything”.

    Then again the US market is wierd so I don’t know. You can unlock Sony bootloaders everywhere else without a hitch but they cut a deal with US carriers so they won’t give unlock codes to US models. If Sony did deals like that so can Samsung.

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Just to be clear, I’m talking about bootloader unlock (so you can root it and install custom ROMs) not carrier unlock. Normally Sony offer bootloader unlock codes on their website, but not for US models.

        Carrier (network) lock and unlock is done by the carriers, manufacturer doesn’t care.

          • lemmyvoreEnglish
            5·
            1 month ago

            Yes, sorry. The way you bought it makes no difference. The unlock code is generated on the Sony website based on the IMEI of the first SIM slot. They can tell when it’s the IMEI of an US model and will refuse to give out the code.

            • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              Wow, I did not realize this! Thank you for the heads up. That should absolutely be illegal imo.

              • lemmyvoreEnglish
                2·
                1 month ago

                If you’re in the US (or Japan, they also restrict some models there) you can visit the unlock pages (select a model from the list on the page I linked) and see what they say. Maybe they don’t restrict all models, or maybe they don’t restrict older/cheaper models. I’m not in the US so I never get to see the message directly, I’ve only seen in other people’s screenshots.

                Also I’m not 100% if they give you the message if they see you have an American IP, or wait until you enter the IMEI to slap you down.

                • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  I am in the US and went to Sony’s bootloader unlock page and they say that the US variants of the 1 iv and the 5 iv cannot be unlocked. It doesn’t mention other models until you enter your model from the dropdown list.

                  INTERESTING NOTE! For anyone interested in the new xperia 1 vi, selecting it from the dropdown list brings up a note that the US and JP variants cannot be bootloader unlocked. Does this mean the 1 vi is coming to the US after all?