I installed Ignited via SideStore. No Jailbreaking necessary. Not computer tether. SideStore can renew the side loaded emulator every 7 days when on WiFi. The iPhone is perfect for DS emulation with a stylus.
(Ignited is a fork of Delta with more options, and SideStore is a fork of AltStore, with no computer tether needed)
Never heard of the sidestore, but it seems so cool! This gets me closer to switching to iPhones than any of Apple’s events do. If the sidestore has a real file manager and local music player, and possibly even Firefox+uBlock origin, I would seriously consider switching to iPhone.
iOS has a native file manager app that works quite well. SideStore is great. The one caveat is that it’s limited to sideloading 3 apps if you don’t pay for an Apple developer account $99/year I think. Also EU has passed a law forcing Apple to open his store but nothing has happened yet. We’re all crossing fingers.
If the EU does that and Apple follows through in America (doubtful), Apple will most likely have my money. I’d love to have the good parts of iPhones but I can’t stand how locked down it currently is.
The native file manager kinda sucks. It’s clunky and doesn’t have many features. On the other hand, FX on Android is super fast and feature rich. So much better than the stock Android file manager.
About Firefox, all browsers on iOS have to use Safari engine so they are basically just a Safari skin so I don’t know if you can use uBO but probably not.
It’s nice, but why would it tempt you to Apple? The same thing is available on android with much less work. F-Droid is a FOSS app catalogue, and you can just download it off the play store. You can also just use Firefox and play local music with nothing getting in the way.
Because there actually are some desirable features only on iPhones. iMessage is the big one, but also many app developers–and college students around me!!!–treat Android users as 2nd class citizens; also I want to degoogle myself a bit. I’m also afraid of the direction Android is going in right now.
However, iPhones currently have so many undesirable “features” that I’ll never switch at the moment. The big ones are no sideloading, crappy file manager, no Firefox+uBlock origin, and no local music player. And the 2000% storage markups on iPhones are atrocious.
I don’t understand the iMessage thing. How is it desirable? It functions the same except you get a different color bubble if you’re messaging from android, which makes me want to join them less not more.
When do android users get treated like second class citizens by developers? Which apps, besides Apple owned ones like iMessage?
Degoogle yourself with android. Why is running to another megacorp better? Android is the only way to somewhat get away from them, but you have to put in a little effort.
I just don’t get the Apple stuff. The only tiny benefit that I see is they might be better at securing user data from government agencies maybe. Everything else is worse for more money.
iMessage is how so many people communicate around me. It’s a lot more than just blue bubbles. It’s games, SharePlay, AirDrop (this is a huge one), and much more. Countless times, I’ve wanted to play some kind of iMessage game with a group of other people, but I have an Android so I can’t.
Okay the 2nd point is pretty moot actually. The only thing I can think of is Snapchat dark mode but that’s one feature on a proprietary social platform countless open source apps.
I really wish I could run away from the megacorps, but they dominate the market so I can’t. And these days I hate Google much more than Apple.
lol enjoy your blue bubbles
Seriously, people care about this a lot more than me. And I currently prefer Android, unlike 90% of people in my age group.