Privacy apps/thoughts

[infinitiwoods12]

Hi all,I switch between android and ios every year. For example i have been using note5 till the iPhone 7 came out and switched to ip7. Now from ip7 switched to note 8.
Whatever iPhone i use i m always jailbroken.

Here are my observations.
Iphone has always been known for great apps and app store. While Android is great and known for the customization. But i always found that iphone always had better customization interms of integration 3rd party apps into the system while being jailbroken. For example. There is an app called whoozit pro on iPhone that can just pull info from a regular app store app like truecaller and display it on the incoming call screen. While Android truecaller app can also notify you with a banner on the screen, the iPhone displays text like it was from the contacts itself and looks much more like like stock, but android banner looks like some third-party advertising.
Another app called bioprotect simply locks apps using touch id. I haven't found a single app on the entire play store that can properly lock apps all these years. When an bioprotect locked app is tried to open it instantly askes for touchid and also blurrs out the preview in the recents screen. while every app on the Android allows users to see a snapshot of the app for a milli second befor asking for fingerprint. And worst when pressed recents button u can see a preview of the app all time you want. I dont see why a developer cant built a good app locker that can truly protect the privacy. Thinking of previews in notification its even worse too. No app does that too. While iphone has better cydia apps that does.
Some apps directly add buttons and functionality to the stock dialer apps, some can lock albums in the stock gallery app,
The list goes on.. None of these are available for Android and we brag customization.

 

[pete4k]

Well, if I was to speculate, I'll tell you why: in the simplest terms iphone has maybe 5 current models, almost all the same as previous ones with little tweaks here and there, Samsung alone introduced more different types of phones in last 3 months probably. When you write app for Android you don't even know what cpu it will run on, it could be mediatek, exynos, qualcom and few others I can't even remember. It could be made by Samsung, LG, Sony and many others and operating system is written by Google with as little memory as 500MB and as much as 6GB. Is Apple still forcing system updates on everybody, like they used to in the past? I have phone running Android version from 6 yrs ago and most newest programs run fine. Because of strict restrictions and very limited hardware diversity programs can be tightly integrated with operating system, where in Android you can't do that, if you want your app to run on many different phones. If Apple was a country it would be dictatorship with one leader and all dressed in uniforms and Android would be democracy with everybody doing it's own thing and no one agreeing on anything LOL. But then if you're switching back and forth, it must be something that draws you to Android, so it can't be all that bad, or your switching don't make any sense. If I had to buy phone for my grandmother I would probably pick iphone, if I had iphone and was forced to use itunes to transfer few files from computer to phone or back and I do that often, I'm afraid I would smash the phone with the hammer and be out thousand dollars, but it's just me and maybe I'm nuts.

 

[noppy22]

Thread closed, as it is a duplicate thread. Please don't create more than one thread for the same purpose.

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