I hope there aren't any hidden fees Edit: *OF COURSE* there are! While signing up and answering personalisation questions, it hit me up with a hidden fee (£30+ per month!!!) and a *countdown timer!* I deleted the account straight away and when it asked why, this is what I said: "I found the app, it said "Try AkiFlow for free" but upon doing the personalisation and all that, when I signed up, it hit me up with a hidden fee saying "Select Plan", but I thought it was free since the app said so at the start... And the prices were very expensive anyway... Waste of time, I didn't know there was a hidden fee (expensive one too)"
ignoring the obvious, how did tech kill choice? the problem is made of 2 parts and it's not because of big tech: 1)corrupt governments 2)ignorant consumers
Kinda hilarious to see the description and pinned comment for "Try the #1 AI-powered blah blah" while TH-cam has a video from this same channel called "AI has a huge problem it's useless" from this same channel at the top of the recommendation bar I guess if an AI company is stupid enough to sponsor this channel instead of talking the content on it first, why not take their bag
I have 9 apps on my home screen and only 3 are made by Google (gallery, chat, and maps). The other 2/3rds of the apps are each from a unique source. I have a Google Pixel phone, Samsung earbuds, an Apple laptop, and a Windows desktop. Ecosystems be damned!
I guess you could say A jack of all ecosystem but a master of none. meaning you dipped your toes in all the ecosystems but get none of the benefits that come with any of them.
@@Timely-ud4rm honestly, that’s pretty fine. I’m a sense, it’s not even like he dipped into any ecosystem to begin with. They’re all individual units. A phone, a laptop, a desktop. That’s nice.
9:55 let's not forget to thank the EU and the GDPR, which are the reason that option exists in the first place. Granted that the exports are not directly interoperable with other services, it's still useful to be able to export a full or partial copy of your data. For instance, I export all my photos every once in a way to make sure I have a local copy stored on my drive. Previously, this wasn't an easy thing to do.
I'm slowly moving all my data to self-hosted solutions. The only thing I use in the cloud is email. The rest-contacts, calendar, files, pictures-are all stored locally on my personal server with multiple backups. Is it a lot of work? Yes. Does it give me peace of mind? YES, 100%.
@@MrSociofobs I mean that's one way to think about it. The other is that it saves you time, like we only have x amount of time. Do you really want to spend a ton of hours setting up storage? When you can simply have it set automatically, and then use that time for something else like playing with your kid. Spending time with your partner, going to the gym. Doing something productive... Etc. etc.
Now there I think about it, I actually never ever bought two items of the same brand. Every phone was a different manufacturer, every accessory or peripheral device...I made it a habbit of switching them whenever I can. I don't ever want to suffer from vendor lock-in!
@@tino768 because it's the only one. We don't have any platform that can give this level of quality for free. Look at kurzgesagt, Branch Education, Real Engineering, there 100's of more creators that provide such a high level of quality content. I'm currently a student, when I start earning I'll definitely pay them for everything they gave me.
@@tino768Not only that but we also have 1000s of teacher in each and every field who are passionate and teach us for free. You can literally get a high paying job just by learning from TH-cam and it's all free. Yeah obviously you need to pay for internet but it's worth it if you enhance your skills instead of mindless scrolling.
We need to stop saying ecosystem and start saying prison or blockingsystem, since it blocks communication with other vendors (example: you can't send pics with bluetooth from apple to samsung, but you can between samsung/nokia/google/sony...)
Monopoly sugarcoated so it becomes acceptable to the masses. Most don't even notice shenanigans like Apple making it look like non Apple users have a miserable life. Like downgrading media received from non Apple products.
Technically, you can send photos between Samsung and Apple, it just almost never works. Same with Windows and any other device (including other Windows devices).
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 I used to transfer photos to my pc using bluetooth all the time. Only this year I installed local send and now I use that. I still use USB also for a large quantity of photos.
@@jiffonbuffo True on that , if you send music to iphone/ipad they don't show without Itunes. I'm sure this is apple targetting Torrent users but it's bad for everyone. It's hard to put music on ios without itunes. And it's a mess I don't wanna use.
6:53 defaultuser: A user, who blindly sticks with default options, ignoring privacy, customization, or anything "too complicated". These are the majority and are growing in number.
Brilliant summation, but I don't think this guy made this video so that supposed intellectuals can use it's comment section to look down their nose on people they feel are inferior.
What people need to understand and sort of consistently fail to is that most people aren't freaks, they don't use xfce arch or hyprland, they use the bare minimum and really couldn't care less. To most users a computer is a necessary obstacle between them and an objective, usually games or office software, or the browser. Same with phones, the reason the iPhone keeps somehow winning even when they offer subpar devices is because the iPhone by default keeps out of your way, it just lets you use it as a portal to Instagram or whatever. Most people aren't tech workers or what not, they in fact kinda hate it and use it mostly out of necessity. So the fact that most don't give a fuck about privacy isn't their fault, the fact that most get stuck in ecosystems isn't their fault, it's up to companies and regulators to keep the market open, the options safe and competition alive. A typical user shouldn't have to care what operating system they use and whether it works with their new headphones and smartwatch, it should just work.
Honestly the default feel official. like if you go to the doctor the default is to go to the physician to check you out you wouldn't go to some 3rd party sketchy doctor. I'm not always a default user but like on my phone I trust the default apps more by default. Sorry for the pun 😭 Now this isn't always the case sometimes there are genuinely better 3rd party apps but that's after I see how the default app lacks or the 3rd party app is secure and mantained.
«Despite the fact that the free software movement has been fighting for user freedom for decades and has achieved significant successes in this struggle, the situation remains bleak. Large corporations continue to exploit users, and many smaller developers follow their lead. Most users tolerate the harmful features in their tools because they are unaware of other options. Those who are dissatisfied often propose only cosmetic solutions, such as installing antivirus software or using anonymizers. These measures address symptoms rather than the root cause. While they may make surveillance slightly more difficult or allow users to bypass certain restrictions, they do not solve the underlying problem. Surveillance, loopholes, sabotage, and restrictions are all consequences. The reason they exist in software is that it is not free. By allowing yourself to be shackled by digital chains now, when there is a choice between living with them or without them, you are hastening the day when that choice will disappear, along with the possibility of breaking free when the pressure becomes too great. It is essential to resist the imposition of software slavery. If you are unhappy that outsiders have access to your data, if you realize that you are being exploited, and despite your dissatisfaction, you take no action-you are not resisting. You are a defeated, passive individual. Corporations, along with the authorities that dance to their tune, want you to remain this way: discontented but submissive, convinced that you have no other options and that they will always find a way to reach you. They want you to read about how others have suffered from unauthorized access to their information, becoming victims of sabotage, while you cowardly hide the thought, "At least it’s not me," naively hoping that the consequences of using their software, with its built-in malicious features, will not affect you. If you openly discuss the problem of harmful features, use encryption and anonymization tools, complex passwords, and firewall settings, yet do all this in a non-free environment-you are not resisting. You are an indecisive grumbler, and they are fine with that. They will continue to embed more malicious functionality into their solutions. However, if you remove their non-free systems from your devices and install ethical operating systems and programs that grant you freedom-you are resisting. You are reclaiming control over your computing. You stop exposing yourself to surveillance, censorship, sabotage, and the restrictions imposed by those who seek to profit from you. Apply pressure on corporations; the fewer people use their solutions, the more reasons they will have to reconsider their policies and actions. You can also re-establish mutual aid and cooperation, thereby contributing to the creation of a world of goodness and freedom.» "Freedom in the World of Software" Ars Libre Translated by ai; errors may occur.
And guess what? There's nothing wrong with that. I just want to use my pc to study and game without thinkering with the os, command lines and whatnot, I don't have neither the time not the will to deal with all of that. You're talking like you belong in an elite group, when in reality all people want is to use the technology to do their stuff. People like you forget that technology is supposed to serve us, not the other way around.
Samsung SmartWatch, Xiaomi + Soundcore Headphones, Google Smartphone, Windows PC, Linux Laptop, Meta Headset. And somehow this works just fine... Thanks to some sort of Standardization (Bluetooth, USB-C, ...) and software that works with all of the products. Yeah I need the "right cable" but I know what to watch out for when buying, so it's no hustle.
Indeed. I have never had a problem with bluetooth. It just works, and I don't know what people who say they have things never pair or randomly send audio to other devices are even talking about. And in my experience with USB-C, the "right cable" is not very hard to come by at all. They seem to be in two major groups: charging+usb 2.0 only and fully featured, which is arguably less annoying than the power only vs power+data that existed in the days of micro USB. There's also emarker and non-emarker cables in each category, which is admittedly an extra thing to pay attention to, but that's just one more thing, and in my experience all that will happen is you'll be limited to 60W if you use a non-emarker cable on a device that expects emarker, which is almost a non-issue
1:59 I'm so confused why everyone says you can't use noice cancelling on anything else than Apple products. I use my AirPods Pro 2 always with my Android phone everything works except for Spatial Audio and automatic Play/Pause
not to mention, there's TONS of better options out there that are cheaper AND supports multi-platform implementations like, i get that the regular demographic can easily fall into these consumerist pitholes, but looks like Mr Video Maker here doesn't realize just how bad he himself is wrapped in it you could easily hard-edit the keybinds on MacOS to not have it open Apple Music by default and holy shit it's SO painfully simple to just remove the OneDrive notif in the Explorer
It's not that they won't work on Android, but more than they won't have anything that makes them special, and without that they are just overpriced. What makes them special is the easy pairing and ability to get them connected to various devices at the same time, playing the audio from the device you are using at the moment. Without that the 200€ earphones are just 50-80 € earphones. Companies that are more into audio stuff like Technics or Sony sound so much better and are often even cheaper, for the same functionality on Android.
I guess not a lot of people know that you can turn on and off noise, cancellation by holding on AirPod stem, and if you’re an android, you won’t have the button in the settings on the phone
It's the 3rd stage of ENSHITTIFICATION. Surprised you didn't mention that. It's anticompetitive. Stifling innovation. Let's hope these companies are broken up.
@@Will-cp5zh indeed so, some countries in europe are pushing for those same ideas, on the US... even trying to fix your own phone is difficult thanks to that anti-polarizing etiquette big companies adapt with their parts....
Judging by how things are going in America, things are about to get very focused on benefiting large corporations and businesses so I wouldn’t hold my breath on it changing. That or somehow consumers at mass demand it and stop paying for products. (We all know that will never happen)
I love your takes on the systems. Think of it that it also becomes even more interesting how "eco-systems" germinate from individualized components but then they have a quick ability to morph into inter-connected maze. This video is a case study in itself.
This is just one opinion from someone who’s been in IT for over 30 years. I always have two things in mind anytime I interact with any technology: 1. This probably doesn’t actually work/work as well as we hope. 2. Every technology use/interaction is a choice - I don’t need any of this, and no one does. Carefully pick and choose what really matters for you. You’d be amazed at how little you actually want. There’s always another way. Tech is often not necessary, and rarely solves a problem. Paying attention to people and processes are where most problems have the best chance for some level of improvement. I can’t tell you how many IT projects I killed by helping people refine their processes instead. Screwdrivers are great for screws. They’re terrible at chopping onions.
Depends on what issue you are trying to solve I guess. like having technology to automatically change the temp to your liking might be annoying and creates another problem than it solves. While automatic lights solve wasting electricity when your not around and removing a step making life simpler. it just depends on the application but I like your comment, it's to say technology can help sometimes but trying to use it for every issue will just create more issues.
It's capitalism, baby... Ruining also the progress of tech despite the usual argument that without it we wouldn't have anything we have today without it
no its not capitalism. its consumers buying stupid things. I watched everyone buy into the apple ecosystem and I got a phone running a custom android rom. Everyone bought AirPods, I bought wired IEMs. Everyone buys "smart" lights, I bought lights that are DMX controlled and can be controlled from a Arduino/RaspberryPI Everyone uses Windows and complains, i switched to Linux. Everyone uses Apple notes, i make Markdown Files in Open source Note apps like Joplin. Capitalism is Free markets. If a Company or a Product messes with you, get something else. Start by replacing your daily apps with FOSS alternatives. Try to rely on open standards as possible. Stop blaming others for your bad life choices.
I wish it was capitalism 😔 it's more like limited capitalism if we had a truly 100% free market we'd be so much better off. Apple would be getting off there asses to innovate but no competition no progress 😭
@@Timely-ud4rmThe great contradiction: no intervention or too much intervention from govt means zero choice Policy to force competition and choice to be present is the only way no matter what system we have.
How delusional. To some of you, the problem of everything is cApiTAliSm. Have you been in a socialist system before where there is choice? In fact, where is the innovation and growth in such a system even before you talk about having a choice? You just float around the term capitalism as if you even really understand what it is.
Very powerful message "we don't buy products we buy benefit how we think something is going to improve our life". This is so powerful because you wouldn't buy a plastic brick for no reason, yet if this plastic brick allowed you to charge your devices such as your iPhone, or laptop that benefit is why you buy the product. Also ecosystems aren't just contained from big corporations! A good example of this is that Linux desktop environment called KDE has inbuilt way to connect to your phone. After you set this up by downloading the app things just work such as when i copy something on my desktop linux machine that same text can be pasted on my phone. or share files with a tap or few taps, few taps might sound annoying but whats the other ways? I called this the open source ecosystem where it only works with linux and that specific Desktop environment IE KDE. The only reason I am able to use it on my Linux distro that uses the GNOME DE is because something made an extension to duplicate the functionality for gnome users. My point still stands, ecosystems exsit bc it's easier to make things work when you care to make them happen.
There is an alternative: avoid commercial ecosystems, create your own. I'm typing this comment on a Windows computer, but my primary laptop is a MacBook and I also use Linux for work. My phone runs Android. My robot vacuum is blocked from the Internet and triggered from my Raspberry Pi instead. I run image and audio processing AI locally on my computer. I use LLMs only on an ad-hoc basis, without logging in. I only use free-tier cloud storage, and use it mostly for file sharing, not for file _storage_ - I store things locally. I click "reject" on almost every privacy agreement I don't _have_ to agree to. Yes, it's more messy compared to if I just embraced an Apple or Google or Samsung+Microsoft life. But if I one day decide to switch back from a MacBook to a ThinkPad, or conversely, from a Galaxy to an iPhone, there will be minimal impact on how I live. And if some online service dies overnight, I won't be hugely affected. Also, I am admittedly a nerd. "Normal people" probably wouldn't be bothered to care. And that's the real tragedy: Big Tech are luring in people who don't care. And then people wake up in a dystopia...
Brilliant, Enrico. Thank you for making this. Made me think: Fine-tuned AI agents that are specialised at a certain task or in a certain field are going to be impactful. They will need to communicate with each other, to achieve the tasks each of them is not specialized for. We have no standard for this. I wonder what's going to happen about this🍿
Those technically exist and are called Multi Modal Models. But mostly in the realm of self hosting. Apple Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot want to get there. Apple Intelligence, if truly local, might be locked into the Apple Ecosystem, but at least it is not Microsoft Recall.
I wouldn't say they did it secretly. They did it out in the open for all to plainly see and a large majority of users said "sure take away all my choice"
You always produce interesting & engaging content. IMHO you have great production values & editing skills, combined with a good choice of topics make your videos easy to watch. Well done 👍
Education is key. I use Mega for my cloud storage. My laptop came preinstalled with Windows, and I kept it, but I use Manjaro as my main driver. Still everything just works.
You can actually use Airpods with Noise Cancelling on other phones and toggle it on and off. I use it with my S24 Ultra and works just fine - reason being is that it has the best noise cancelling out of any earbud and can connect easily with my Macbook. Sound quality is pretty bleh on it tho. Just wanted to put that out there. Also the Android App MaterialPods works almost as seemless as on an iPhone.
Such a good video, I too use Android with MacOS and trying to fight this. I just know with my Pixel Buds that MacOS + Android auto-switching is never going to be what I wish, though it's a better experience than using Android with Airpods. Shows you the hidden "why" the government needs to step in on things like USB C, as confusing as it is, it is better. Anyway, great video, you're going to see me comment more. Dying to know though, so how many R's does strawberry have?
I have a love hate relationship with ecosystems. I love how they can feel like magic with how seamless they are, but I become obsessed with wanting to use them ALL. No exceptions.
I like Samsung apps, specially the gallery and notes, but I still use Google and Proton apps, because they are cross platforms and you can change smartphone brands without a problems.
I will always insist that the major difference between the Android Ecosystem and the Apple Ecosystem is that Android (and ChromeOS by extension) work by unifying features across manufacturers, while iOS/Mac means one manufacturer and if you leave them, you are out of luck. I have owned LG, Motorola, Sony, Samsung and OnePlus phones, all under the Android umbrella. And that means I still maintain some variety not only in my app selection but also my device selection. On any phone I use, I'll have the G Suite of apps, sure, but then I'll have the manufacturer's clock, calculator, phone app, music app (if they have one), camera, gallery, etc. If their stock calendar app lets me import my Google calendar data, then I will use that over the Google Calendar app. I have owned two smartwatches and yes, both were Samsung. One was a Watch Active 2 running Tizen, the other a Watch 4 running Wear OS. Both devices had nearly identical featuresets, where even if something like Google Maps wasn't available, HERE Maps was. But at the end of the day, *none* of this has gotten me any closer to buying a Pixel phone. Nor buying a Pixel watch. And if I get tired of, say, Samsung, I can buy a Moto watch or OnePlus watch and export my health data from Samsung to one of those manufacturers using Google as an intermediary. Whereas if I had an Apple Watch or iPhone, getting all that data into the Android ecosystem would be incredibly cumbersome. Ecosystems and standardizations aren't bad so long as they allow more players into the same space. That's my two cents anyway.
Most of personal tech since the '90 is built in the OEM model - single OS producer monopoly, which makes their software run on any compatible hardware, which in turn use one of very few available components. This was developed by Intel and Microsoft, who allowed any PC/laptop brand (so-called OEM) to sell their stuff as long as it has Intel architecture CPU and Windows OS. This way they make OEMs compete, while actually earning no matter which of them wins This model was copied by Google, who made Android OS and additional Google Services available for any OEM. But most of OEMs will in turn choose one of a few big CPU producers anyway. This approach was completely reversed by Apple, who decided to build their equipment on every layer of the stack, including replacing Intel CPU with their M series. This was a huge change as they actually managed to get better performance and UX by optimizing software for particular hardware, not for standards. And while it does in fact close the choices for customers, I'd argue that OEM model gives only false feeling of the choice. No matter which android phone you choose, you'll find the same google services sending the same data to their servers Also OEM model has one irritating side effect - bloatware. Since all OEMs use the same hardware and the same OS, one way they try to compete and build their own micro-ecosystems is additional software preinstalled with their products. You can find it both on windows laptops and android phones. And it often give strange UX e.g. when you find on your laptop two preinstalled file clouds apps - onedrive and some OEM cloud client. That's why Apple product give this "integrity" experience, where each pre-installed app is in fact part of the OS platform What would be great is not another ecosystem, but some meta-ecosystem, which allows you to use iPhone or Android and Windows or Linux or Mac and still have everything working. That would be a great achievement for open source
"but then I'll have the manufacturer's clock, calculator, phone app, music app (if they have one), camera, gallery, etc." What you're describing is bloatware and it's a bad thing. On a Pixel phone, at least I only have Google's forced app wasting space even if I don't want to use it and download something different from the Play Store. On any other manufacturer's phone, now I have TWO apps I can't uninstall. Absolute garbage. Hopefully the EU passes some laws regulating bloatware and mandating that any unwanted app can be properly uninstalled to recover space on the device. If I don't want to use a crappy G-Suite app, the Play Store is right there with tons of choices. I don't need Samsung or OnePlus or Nothing to force a second suite of crappy apps that I'm also not going to use on me.
The first gen RIO MP3 which came out 5 years before was not even close to the competitor to the first iPod. The first RIO could hold 12 songs in 1997. By 2000 there were many players on the market that could hold 5 gigs of music. A year before the iPOD.
Well, technically true, but to normal people like me (at the time) an mp3 player was something like a thumbdrive with buttons and a tiny screen. There were more obscure hard drive based ones, but they were made just like bigger thumb drives. When the ipod came out it really felt like the future (and for me it even was, I am still using one, 20 years later with a few upgrades)
I have a Pixel 8 Pro but with Graphene Os on it, so I have control over everything but the most basic bare-bones included apps, like the phone app and camera app. I can even uninstall the Google Play Store if I wanted. With Sand-boxed Play services, Google play services are treated like any other app rather than being the backbone of the system.
The ecosystem pull is definitely strong. However, I think the software side is a much bigger deal than the hardware one. I have a Linux PC, Google Pixel phone/buds, Apple Macbook, and Samsung watch...and yet they all talk to each other pretty well through the magic glue that is Google services. Install Chrome, sign into your Google account, and your done. Email, photos, passwords, all the normal browser stuff (bookmarks, history, etc), Google drive, Google docs, Google meet/chat, Keep notes, etc etc.
Good job! Brings to mind the Cisco commercial “The Network Is The Computer!” I bought my first Apple product in 2021. Now I’m all in. Are there Evils to such a closed system? In theory, maybe. But the Benefits are real.
Again another banger of a video. I am really glad to sub . I love tech and Design and you are perfect combo for that ! , Design psychology , Default bias and UI UX , these are stuff I love. Tech and design are different things but combo is awesome. Ecosystem creates an artificial sense of choice where if you buy something else you miss out more. I own ipad , Windows pc , Linux laptop and Android phone, I love crazy stuff and yeah if not for shareit ( app like Xender ) or P2P ( ethernet transfer ) I won't be able to send data between my devs. I still don't like ipad can't store music without itunes. Apple is stingy , if you put MP3 won't show on Apple music unless some work done , feels like a bit of " default " issues.
Great video! I almost didn't click on it because I assumed it would be about how TikTok, etc. suck us into a feed, which is old and tired at this point. I clicked only because I trust you because of your previous videos. If the view velocity starts tanking on this video, may be worthwhile testing a thumbnail change - maybe the frame you showed with apps on your phone being all Google or Meta pretty much? The thumbnail right now doesn't tell me anything tbh until I read the title.
Great video! What song is at :50? I keep hearing it in TH-cam videos and I love it haha in guessing it's from one of the main music song licensing sites.
automating everything with AI will just make artisan work more valuable, and people that find joy in doing things will get more encouragement to do so you will really appreciate when someone types a message for you instead of picking from the 3 most likely options an AI gave em
Exactly! me seeing Ai slope pictures makes me just wanna go get a commission from an actual artist. Not saying I need to do that but if I wanted a painting or a desktop background I'd want to get a commission from a human artist who puts there soul and passion into it and not some machine who will take over the world one day.
11 out of 14 of the icons on my iPhone's home screen are Apple made apps... I'm in pretty deep by now, but to be honest I like it! The advantages it gives me to use the apps Apple makes on my Apple devices makes certain things just much easier... Next to an iPhone I use almost exclusively Apple products... The advantages outweigh the disadvantages in my opinion.
Excluding pre-installed apps like calculator, I have 2 from google (TH-cam and Gmail), 2 from microsoft (Microsoft maths and teams), and 1 from meta (whatsapp)
2:41, well, my first apple device was a mac….and then nothing, for a long time. Later i got an ipad pro, and that‘s it, again. It’s a great device, but i run into walls all to often. I use apple devices from my company, but private? The iPad is enough for a long time…
so that after you purchase their hardware you'll be stucked with their services and would continuously make profits from you even if you still use the same device you bought from them or if you actually want to buy one locking you from their ecosystem means there's 99% chance that you'll be buying their products and the cycle never ends
Xiaomi (made the phone): 18 apps Google (because Android): 19 apps I've bought multiple Xiaomi products. First the Redmi Note 8 Pro which i liked, then the Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G, Redmi Buds 3 Pro, Redmi Pad and Redmi Pad Pro. I kept going to Xiaomi because the combination of features and price was met for me. I was often impressed by how wonky the other brands were. Newer phones more expensive than the previous models and fewer features. Meanwhile Xiaomi phones have most of the festures and looking for. Sometimes it's not even them pulling me in for some things, it's the decisions of others pushing me away. For example, why are you making your 200$ phone with a 7+in 720p screen and replacing the ultrawide camera with yet another 2MP depth camera? And then no headphone jack or expandable storage.
The thing I've found is that Google pixels are really good on the second hand market in Europe(which I suppose you live there, you have a Xiaomi). Got a pixel 6 for 200 euros like a year and a half ago, and man does it slap all the Xiaomi phones in the price range at the time, and still now(especially the camera)
Xiaomi has done all the things you complain about in your comment, and their software is still buggy and messy. My dad got a xiaomi last year and the stock gallery app has reels now and the files app has ads on it... You can't be seriously recommending this.
Well, my phone has only 2 apps on its home screen by the same company. TH-cam and TH-cam Music. And I do have 20 apps on my home screen. Its just thar I go out of my way to avoid at all getting locked into a ecossystem.
I'm currently windows/android. I'm waiting for next year until we can say if Apple Intelligence makes sense. If it does I'm switching completely, otherwise I think most tech just annoys me too much and I go back to linux and some dumb phone.
I think the opposite is happening. everybody hates using there phones now, 2000s digital cameras are trendy, physical media is making a comeback and people are becoming more privacy conscious. Personally ecosystems are very inconvenient. I prioritize quality hardware and software over seamless integration. I use Linux(although I’m thinking about trying freeBSD), I have an iPhone, starting a physical media collection and am getting a 5 disk cd changer.
We make "easy" choices, hence driving product development. I start with accountability with self, try to shift to harder choices, removing "the want" for many things. It's working but taking long and practice. So it feels neutral toward what one company/people want to design their product lines. and if there isn't an option I like, well I do things manually or with someone. a life of short cuts isn't a life of action. but who the hell am I to judge or suggest. thx
Which google app cannot I not use on my iPhone? For android users Apple Music, Apple TV, and apple podcast are available. No iMessage however but there’s RCS. There are choices, people have chosen already.
The thing is about experience , you get better experience with the default options because those OEMs choose to not let others integrate with the system as seamlessly as their own . In android , it's not a major issue cause it's far open but on ios apple restricts everything
nope, sorry. most of what you're referring to has to do with Apple locking their customers in their ecosystem. on my OnePlus 8 (Android) device i use Mega for "drive", modded Pixel camera app, Inbox for mail, Grayjay for TH-cam. and my daily driver laptop runs Linux btw.
You make very good points, but please, do something for your audio: you have too much noise reduction on your mike, and your voice sounds really bad, like if you were on a low bitrate phone line. It's possible that you are recording in a noisy environment and you need noise reduction, but it's really distracting.
Nothing new! We had all that with Sony's proprietary connectors in the 90s. Do you think the EU forced Apple to adopt USB-C for no reason? Software/Hardware there's no difference. Everything can be used to build a monopoly.
You didn't mention that LLMs cannot reason (according to a paper apple published) so there are only specialized models to combine data sources. But, that same data file you downloaded can be mapped to another ecosystem's data format seamlessly using LLMs (because they can pattern match very well) just like password managers already do with standards. Also the google automated email thing doesn't require ecosystems because it's exclusively email as shown, even if external data sources may be more useful. And there's adversarial interoperability too, like I use KDE connect between my android phone and my linux computer to sync notifications, clipboard, links, files, texts, etc. just like an apple device might do, and it's a third party service on both platforms with deep system integration (not possible on iOS but any open ecosystem can do it)! So, we could very well beat the problem using the same technology that might cause it!
Love how you have your phone super minimal but it doesn't change those apps are still on your phone. you just can't see them. You can't even uninstall them because they are defaults 😭
i have a lenovo laptop with fedora linux with kde plasma, a old redmi running a custom rom with microg and no google services, i use wired earphones, mozilla firefox, a bunch of usb drives and a nokia 8110 4g
@@belkacemF to track your health, sleep and fitness. That's what it was made for. I don't need ai health recommendations, to control my camera with it or to dismiss an alarm...
I travel solo a lot, , and I can’t even imagine how that would be possible without my iPhone . I use to to pay, for WhatsApp , for photos, for my bank, to book accommodation, to translate , as an alarm, as a taxi, as a flash light, as navigation ,,,I can’t imagine doing what I do in the 1980s
I don't have any Apple, Microsoft, Google (except TH-cam), or Meta hardware, software, or services, or anything controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. I can do everything your ecosystem does with ease and I'll never go back. It does require imagination, courage to say 'No', and some effort (the deeper their blood sucking tentacles have reached into you the harder it is).
I'm a solo traveler as well as a biker from India. I use android and I manage to do all that you say without any hassle using products from multiple different brands. It's not just apple that has the capability. Tech has evolved
Oops😬 i just found out that i have exactly 20 google apps on my phone. With the samsung apps its even worse. I have 24 samsung apps on my phone. That's kinda shocking actually💀
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I feel like this is antithetical to the channel message with ai slop💀
But ya gotta pay the bag somehow yeah?
I hope there aren't any hidden fees
Edit: *OF COURSE* there are! While signing up and answering personalisation questions, it hit me up with a hidden fee (£30+ per month!!!) and a *countdown timer!* I deleted the account straight away and when it asked why, this is what I said:
"I found the app, it said "Try AkiFlow for free" but upon doing the personalisation and all that, when I signed up, it hit me up with a hidden fee saying "Select Plan", but I thought it was free since the app said so at the start... And the prices were very expensive anyway...
Waste of time, I didn't know there was a hidden fee (expensive one too)"
@ ai slop
ignoring the obvious, how did tech kill choice? the problem is made of 2 parts and it's not because of big tech:
1)corrupt governments
2)ignorant consumers
Kinda hilarious to see the description and pinned comment for "Try the #1 AI-powered blah blah" while TH-cam has a video from this same channel called "AI has a huge problem it's useless" from this same channel at the top of the recommendation bar
I guess if an AI company is stupid enough to sponsor this channel instead of talking the content on it first, why not take their bag
I have 9 apps on my home screen and only 3 are made by Google (gallery, chat, and maps). The other 2/3rds of the apps are each from a unique source. I have a Google Pixel phone, Samsung earbuds, an Apple laptop, and a Windows desktop. Ecosystems be damned!
HELL YEAH
This is very similar to the way I roll, big tech can go stick it!
I'm out of words
I guess you could say A jack of all ecosystem but a master of none. meaning you dipped your toes in all the ecosystems but get none of the benefits that come with any of them.
@@Timely-ud4rm honestly, that’s pretty fine. I’m a sense, it’s not even like he dipped into any ecosystem to begin with. They’re all individual units. A phone, a laptop, a desktop. That’s nice.
9:55 let's not forget to thank the EU and the GDPR, which are the reason that option exists in the first place. Granted that the exports are not directly interoperable with other services, it's still useful to be able to export a full or partial copy of your data. For instance, I export all my photos every once in a way to make sure I have a local copy stored on my drive. Previously, this wasn't an easy thing to do.
I'm slowly moving all my data to self-hosted solutions. The only thing I use in the cloud is email. The rest-contacts, calendar, files, pictures-are all stored locally on my personal server with multiple backups. Is it a lot of work? Yes. Does it give me peace of mind? YES, 100%.
That is the way. Chasing convenience and being happy with comfort zones, ultimately only benefit others, not you.
@@MrSociofobs I mean that's one way to think about it. The other is that it saves you time, like we only have x amount of time. Do you really want to spend a ton of hours setting up storage? When you can simply have it set automatically, and then use that time for something else like playing with your kid. Spending time with your partner, going to the gym. Doing something productive... Etc. etc.
Personal server?? If you don’t mind me asking, how in the world does one have a personal server??
Maybe Im not sure what that means
I’d love to do that when I can afford to do so
Now there I think about it, I actually never ever bought two items of the same brand. Every phone was a different manufacturer, every accessory or peripheral device...I made it a habbit of switching them whenever I can. I don't ever want to suffer from vendor lock-in!
Bully for you! So do you use TH-cam as your only video product?
@@tino768 because it's the only one. We don't have any platform that can give this level of quality for free. Look at kurzgesagt, Branch Education, Real Engineering, there 100's of more creators that provide such a high level of quality content. I'm currently a student, when I start earning I'll definitely pay them for everything they gave me.
@@tino768Not only that but we also have 1000s of teacher in each and every field who are passionate and teach us for free. You can literally get a high paying job just by learning from TH-cam and it's all free. Yeah obviously you need to pay for internet but it's worth it if you enhance your skills instead of mindless scrolling.
You're a rarity
lmao linux users immune to the being forced to use onedrive
plus if we ever need to send files we got ftp protocol or kde connect.
True, but for me personally kde connect never works... It's annoying
Yeah same @@michalthemichal3550
@@michalthemichal3550try pairdrop or snapdrop man, wayyyy better
@@michalthemichal3550 you mean the connection between devices? Yeah that's your network being 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒚
We need to stop saying ecosystem and start saying prison or blockingsystem, since it blocks communication with other vendors (example: you can't send pics with bluetooth from apple to samsung, but you can between samsung/nokia/google/sony...)
Monopoly sugarcoated so it becomes acceptable to the masses.
Most don't even notice shenanigans like Apple making it look like non Apple users have a miserable life. Like downgrading media received from non Apple products.
@@jiffonbuffo Monopoly sugarcoated ahaha nice one
Technically, you can send photos between Samsung and Apple, it just almost never works. Same with Windows and any other device (including other Windows devices).
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 I used to transfer photos to my pc using bluetooth all the time.
Only this year I installed local send and now I use that. I still use USB also for a large quantity of photos.
@@jiffonbuffo True on that , if you send music to iphone/ipad they don't show without Itunes. I'm sure this is apple targetting Torrent users but it's bad for everyone. It's hard to put music on ios without itunes. And it's a mess I don't wanna use.
dude, the last part "next big thing" holy shit, that was legit awesome delivery!!
6:53
defaultuser: A user, who blindly sticks with default options, ignoring privacy, customization, or anything "too complicated". These are the majority and are growing in number.
Brilliant summation, but I don't think this guy made this video so that supposed intellectuals can use it's comment section to look down their nose on people they feel are inferior.
What people need to understand and sort of consistently fail to is that most people aren't freaks, they don't use xfce arch or hyprland, they use the bare minimum and really couldn't care less. To most users a computer is a necessary obstacle between them and an objective, usually games or office software, or the browser. Same with phones, the reason the iPhone keeps somehow winning even when they offer subpar devices is because the iPhone by default keeps out of your way, it just lets you use it as a portal to Instagram or whatever.
Most people aren't tech workers or what not, they in fact kinda hate it and use it mostly out of necessity. So the fact that most don't give a fuck about privacy isn't their fault, the fact that most get stuck in ecosystems isn't their fault, it's up to companies and regulators to keep the market open, the options safe and competition alive. A typical user shouldn't have to care what operating system they use and whether it works with their new headphones and smartwatch, it should just work.
Honestly the default feel official. like if you go to the doctor the default is to go to the physician to check you out you wouldn't go to some 3rd party sketchy doctor. I'm not always a default user but like on my phone I trust the default apps more by default. Sorry for the pun 😭
Now this isn't always the case sometimes there are genuinely better 3rd party apps but that's after I see how the default app lacks or the 3rd party app is secure and mantained.
«Despite the fact that the free software movement has been fighting for user freedom for decades and has achieved significant successes in this struggle, the situation remains bleak. Large corporations continue to exploit users, and many smaller developers follow their lead. Most users tolerate the harmful features in their tools because they are unaware of other options. Those who are dissatisfied often propose only cosmetic solutions, such as installing antivirus software or using anonymizers. These measures address symptoms rather than the root cause. While they may make surveillance slightly more difficult or allow users to bypass certain restrictions, they do not solve the underlying problem. Surveillance, loopholes, sabotage, and restrictions are all consequences. The reason they exist in software is that it is not free. By allowing yourself to be shackled by digital chains now, when there is a choice between living with them or without them, you are hastening the day when that choice will disappear, along with the possibility of breaking free when the pressure becomes too great. It is essential to resist the imposition of software slavery.
If you are unhappy that outsiders have access to your data, if you realize that you are being exploited, and despite your dissatisfaction, you take no action-you are not resisting. You are a defeated, passive individual. Corporations, along with the authorities that dance to their tune, want you to remain this way: discontented but submissive, convinced that you have no other options and that they will always find a way to reach you. They want you to read about how others have suffered from unauthorized access to their information, becoming victims of sabotage, while you cowardly hide the thought, "At least it’s not me," naively hoping that the consequences of using their software, with its built-in malicious features, will not affect you.
If you openly discuss the problem of harmful features, use encryption and anonymization tools, complex passwords, and firewall settings, yet do all this in a non-free environment-you are not resisting. You are an indecisive grumbler, and they are fine with that. They will continue to embed more malicious functionality into their solutions.
However, if you remove their non-free systems from your devices and install ethical operating systems and programs that grant you freedom-you are resisting. You are reclaiming control over your computing. You stop exposing yourself to surveillance, censorship, sabotage, and the restrictions imposed by those who seek to profit from you. Apply pressure on corporations; the fewer people use their solutions, the more reasons they will have to reconsider their policies and actions. You can also re-establish mutual aid and cooperation, thereby contributing to the creation of a world of goodness and freedom.»
"Freedom in the World of Software"
Ars Libre
Translated by ai; errors may occur.
And guess what? There's nothing wrong with that. I just want to use my pc to study and game without thinkering with the os, command lines and whatnot, I don't have neither the time not the will to deal with all of that. You're talking like you belong in an elite group, when in reality all people want is to use the technology to do their stuff.
People like you forget that technology is supposed to serve us, not the other way around.
One of the 5 people that use samsung notes? Ouch that was personal 😭💀
Im one of them
Samsung SmartWatch, Xiaomi + Soundcore Headphones, Google Smartphone, Windows PC, Linux Laptop, Meta Headset. And somehow this works just fine... Thanks to some sort of Standardization (Bluetooth, USB-C, ...) and software that works with all of the products. Yeah I need the "right cable" but I know what to watch out for when buying, so it's no hustle.
Indeed. I have never had a problem with bluetooth. It just works, and I don't know what people who say they have things never pair or randomly send audio to other devices are even talking about. And in my experience with USB-C, the "right cable" is not very hard to come by at all. They seem to be in two major groups: charging+usb 2.0 only and fully featured, which is arguably less annoying than the power only vs power+data that existed in the days of micro USB. There's also emarker and non-emarker cables in each category, which is admittedly an extra thing to pay attention to, but that's just one more thing, and in my experience all that will happen is you'll be limited to 60W if you use a non-emarker cable on a device that expects emarker, which is almost a non-issue
i see no apple there, probably why it works
for me it`s revanced who offer modified (ad-free) versions for some apps im using, im not sure if thats technically a company though.
1:59 I'm so confused why everyone says you can't use noice cancelling on anything else than Apple products. I use my AirPods Pro 2 always with my Android phone everything works except for Spatial Audio and automatic Play/Pause
not to mention, there's TONS of better options out there that are cheaper AND supports multi-platform implementations
like, i get that the regular demographic can easily fall into these consumerist pitholes, but looks like Mr Video Maker here doesn't realize just how bad he himself is wrapped in it
you could easily hard-edit the keybinds on MacOS to not have it open Apple Music by default and holy shit it's SO painfully simple to just remove the OneDrive notif in the Explorer
Automatic play/pause works fine with me. I only have to configure it on my mac. I use AirPods Pro 2 on a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
It's not that they won't work on Android, but more than they won't have anything that makes them special, and without that they are just overpriced. What makes them special is the easy pairing and ability to get them connected to various devices at the same time, playing the audio from the device you are using at the moment. Without that the 200€ earphones are just 50-80 € earphones. Companies that are more into audio stuff like Technics or Sony sound so much better and are often even cheaper, for the same functionality on Android.
I use my pro 2s with my quest 3, and they work flawlessly, not sure why there’s this misconception
I guess not a lot of people know that you can turn on and off noise, cancellation by holding on AirPod stem, and if you’re an android, you won’t have the button in the settings on the phone
It's the 3rd stage of ENSHITTIFICATION. Surprised you didn't mention that. It's anticompetitive. Stifling innovation. Let's hope these companies are broken up.
I just hope software and hardware becomes ‘free’ (libre) so these anticompetitive behaviours can never exist
anti capitalistic in a way; technofeudalism
@@Will-cp5zh indeed so, some countries in europe are pushing for those same ideas, on the US... even trying to fix your own phone is difficult thanks to that anti-polarizing etiquette big companies adapt with their parts....
Judging by how things are going in America, things are about to get very focused on benefiting large corporations and businesses so I wouldn’t hold my breath on it changing.
That or somehow consumers at mass demand it and stop paying for products. (We all know that will never happen)
I love your takes on the systems. Think of it that it also becomes even more interesting how "eco-systems" germinate from individualized components but then they have a quick ability to morph into inter-connected maze. This video is a case study in itself.
I'm glad that TH-cam recommended this video, you provided some good points and earned a sub.
I guess I‘m a weirdo with an iPhone, a Garmin watch and Sony headphones.
Same but with Bose and Denon headphones and a FiiO bt dac and amp
Oh no 😭
This is just one opinion from someone who’s been in IT for over 30 years. I always have two things in mind anytime I interact with any technology: 1. This probably doesn’t actually work/work as well as we hope. 2. Every technology use/interaction is a choice - I don’t need any of this, and no one does. Carefully pick and choose what really matters for you. You’d be amazed at how little you actually want.
There’s always another way. Tech is often not necessary, and rarely solves a problem. Paying attention to people and processes are where most problems have the best chance for some level of improvement. I can’t tell you how many IT projects I killed by helping people refine their processes instead.
Screwdrivers are great for screws. They’re terrible at chopping onions.
Depends on what issue you are trying to solve I guess. like having technology to automatically change the temp to your liking might be annoying and creates another problem than it solves. While automatic lights solve wasting electricity when your not around and removing a step making life simpler. it just depends on the application but I like your comment, it's to say technology can help sometimes but trying to use it for every issue will just create more issues.
It's capitalism, baby... Ruining also the progress of tech despite the usual argument that without it we wouldn't have anything we have today without it
no its not capitalism.
its consumers buying stupid things.
I watched everyone buy into the apple ecosystem and I got a phone running a custom android rom.
Everyone bought AirPods, I bought wired IEMs.
Everyone buys "smart" lights, I bought lights that are DMX controlled and can be controlled from a Arduino/RaspberryPI
Everyone uses Windows and complains, i switched to Linux.
Everyone uses Apple notes, i make Markdown Files in Open source Note apps like Joplin.
Capitalism is Free markets.
If a Company or a Product messes with you, get something else. Start by replacing your daily apps with FOSS alternatives. Try to rely on open standards as possible.
Stop blaming others for your bad life choices.
"They" promised market competition, what we got instead was policy to benefit the few powerful ones, not the many
I wish it was capitalism 😔
it's more like limited capitalism if we had a truly 100% free market we'd be so much better off. Apple would be getting off there asses to innovate but no competition no progress 😭
@@Timely-ud4rmThe great contradiction: no intervention or too much intervention from govt means zero choice
Policy to force competition and choice to be present is the only way no matter what system we have.
How delusional. To some of you, the problem of everything is cApiTAliSm. Have you been in a socialist system before where there is choice? In fact, where is the innovation and growth in such a system even before you talk about having a choice? You just float around the term capitalism as if you even really understand what it is.
Most underrated youtube channel.
Keep pushin' bro, people will notice you!
シルヴィオ thank you ベルルスコッティ
Ooh, I rember the Gmail space counter! It was madness, and probably the best marketing move Google ever made.
If you think standards are much better than eco systems, and you want to have a choice in the future the best thing you can do is support them
0:10 Was that the sound of Life Points dropping or am I tripping?
i see, you are a man of culture
Very powerful message "we don't buy products we buy benefit how we think something is going to improve our life". This is so powerful because you wouldn't buy a plastic brick for no reason, yet if this plastic brick allowed you to charge your devices such as your iPhone, or laptop that benefit is why you buy the product. Also ecosystems aren't just contained from big corporations! A good example of this is that Linux desktop environment called KDE has inbuilt way to connect to your phone. After you set this up by downloading the app things just work such as when i copy something on my desktop linux machine that same text can be pasted on my phone. or share files with a tap or few taps, few taps might sound annoying but whats the other ways? I called this the open source ecosystem where it only works with linux and that specific Desktop environment IE KDE. The only reason I am able to use it on my Linux distro that uses the GNOME DE is because something made an extension to duplicate the functionality for gnome users. My point still stands, ecosystems exsit bc it's easier to make things work when you care to make them happen.
kde connect is also available to windows users besides android and linux ones. it works like a charm
@@phrmko I had no idea they made it for windows. Thats pretty nifty!
Nothing does this better: creating a more open ecosystem that perfectly works with other products.
There is an alternative: avoid commercial ecosystems, create your own. I'm typing this comment on a Windows computer, but my primary laptop is a MacBook and I also use Linux for work. My phone runs Android. My robot vacuum is blocked from the Internet and triggered from my Raspberry Pi instead. I run image and audio processing AI locally on my computer. I use LLMs only on an ad-hoc basis, without logging in. I only use free-tier cloud storage, and use it mostly for file sharing, not for file _storage_ - I store things locally. I click "reject" on almost every privacy agreement I don't _have_ to agree to.
Yes, it's more messy compared to if I just embraced an Apple or Google or Samsung+Microsoft life. But if I one day decide to switch back from a MacBook to a ThinkPad, or conversely, from a Galaxy to an iPhone, there will be minimal impact on how I live. And if some online service dies overnight, I won't be hugely affected.
Also, I am admittedly a nerd. "Normal people" probably wouldn't be bothered to care. And that's the real tragedy: Big Tech are luring in people who don't care. And then people wake up in a dystopia...
I actually truly agree.
Thanks for the video!
Brilliant, Enrico. Thank you for making this. Made me think:
Fine-tuned AI agents that are specialised at a certain task or in a certain field are going to be impactful. They will need to communicate with each other, to achieve the tasks each of them is not specialized for. We have no standard for this. I wonder what's going to happen about this🍿
Those technically exist and are called Multi Modal Models. But mostly in the realm of self hosting. Apple Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot want to get there. Apple Intelligence, if truly local, might be locked into the Apple Ecosystem, but at least it is not Microsoft Recall.
I wouldn't say they did it secretly. They did it out in the open for all to plainly see and a large majority of users said "sure take away all my choice"
You always produce interesting & engaging content. IMHO you have great production values & editing skills, combined with a good choice of topics make your videos easy to watch. Well done 👍
LLLIIIINUUUUXXXXXXXX GANG!!!! opensource your soul!
Free and Open-Source Software is the essence of the quality of my life.
I have GrapheneOS phone and Linux PCs.
I have Foss alternatives for most of my apps.
I love it.
I have an RMS pillow and duvet set.
Education is key. I use Mega for my cloud storage. My laptop came preinstalled with Windows, and I kept it, but I use Manjaro as my main driver. Still everything just works.
You can actually use Airpods with Noise Cancelling on other phones and toggle it on and off. I use it with my S24 Ultra and works just fine - reason being is that it has the best noise cancelling out of any earbud and can connect easily with my Macbook. Sound quality is pretty bleh on it tho. Just wanted to put that out there. Also the Android App MaterialPods works almost as seemless as on an iPhone.
Everyday there’s some new stuff that makes me feel like we living in a dystopian that gets even worse every day 😅
Such a good video, I too use Android with MacOS and trying to fight this. I just know with my Pixel Buds that MacOS + Android auto-switching is never going to be what I wish, though it's a better experience than using Android with Airpods.
Shows you the hidden "why" the government needs to step in on things like USB C, as confusing as it is, it is better. Anyway, great video, you're going to see me comment more.
Dying to know though, so how many R's does strawberry have?
I have a love hate relationship with ecosystems. I love how they can feel like magic with how seamless they are, but I become obsessed with wanting to use them ALL. No exceptions.
Enrico HOLY MOLY I watched your video while holding my breath without noticing oh my god
15:32 Unexpected Enrico ASMR lmao
iphone 20 pro: introducing All brand new 3.5mm jack, so you can listen favorite webseries w/o worrying about battery life.
you’ve got the quality of a high end tech youtuber, and the view counts of a small drama news channel
I like Samsung apps, specially the gallery and notes, but I still use Google and Proton apps, because they are cross platforms and you can change smartphone brands without a problems.
You just saved me from wasting money on airpods. I had no idea you could only use noise cancelling with iphones!
All things aside, this video animation is top notch,, really nice presentation. Did you use Adobe ecosystem? :D
I will always insist that the major difference between the Android Ecosystem and the Apple Ecosystem is that Android (and ChromeOS by extension) work by unifying features across manufacturers, while iOS/Mac means one manufacturer and if you leave them, you are out of luck. I have owned LG, Motorola, Sony, Samsung and OnePlus phones, all under the Android umbrella. And that means I still maintain some variety not only in my app selection but also my device selection.
On any phone I use, I'll have the G Suite of apps, sure, but then I'll have the manufacturer's clock, calculator, phone app, music app (if they have one), camera, gallery, etc. If their stock calendar app lets me import my Google calendar data, then I will use that over the Google Calendar app.
I have owned two smartwatches and yes, both were Samsung. One was a Watch Active 2 running Tizen, the other a Watch 4 running Wear OS. Both devices had nearly identical featuresets, where even if something like Google Maps wasn't available, HERE Maps was.
But at the end of the day, *none* of this has gotten me any closer to buying a Pixel phone. Nor buying a Pixel watch. And if I get tired of, say, Samsung, I can buy a Moto watch or OnePlus watch and export my health data from Samsung to one of those manufacturers using Google as an intermediary.
Whereas if I had an Apple Watch or iPhone, getting all that data into the Android ecosystem would be incredibly cumbersome. Ecosystems and standardizations aren't bad so long as they allow more players into the same space. That's my two cents anyway.
Most of personal tech since the '90 is built in the OEM model - single OS producer monopoly, which makes their software run on any compatible hardware, which in turn use one of very few available components. This was developed by Intel and Microsoft, who allowed any PC/laptop brand (so-called OEM) to sell their stuff as long as it has Intel architecture CPU and Windows OS. This way they make OEMs compete, while actually earning no matter which of them wins
This model was copied by Google, who made Android OS and additional Google Services available for any OEM. But most of OEMs will in turn choose one of a few big CPU producers anyway.
This approach was completely reversed by Apple, who decided to build their equipment on every layer of the stack, including replacing Intel CPU with their M series. This was a huge change as they actually managed to get better performance and UX by optimizing software for particular hardware, not for standards. And while it does in fact close the choices for customers, I'd argue that OEM model gives only false feeling of the choice. No matter which android phone you choose, you'll find the same google services sending the same data to their servers
Also OEM model has one irritating side effect - bloatware. Since all OEMs use the same hardware and the same OS, one way they try to compete and build their own micro-ecosystems is additional software preinstalled with their products. You can find it both on windows laptops and android phones. And it often give strange UX e.g. when you find on your laptop two preinstalled file clouds apps - onedrive and some OEM cloud client. That's why Apple product give this "integrity" experience, where each pre-installed app is in fact part of the OS platform
What would be great is not another ecosystem, but some meta-ecosystem, which allows you to use iPhone or Android and Windows or Linux or Mac and still have everything working. That would be a great achievement for open source
"but then I'll have the manufacturer's clock, calculator, phone app, music app (if they have one), camera, gallery, etc."
What you're describing is bloatware and it's a bad thing. On a Pixel phone, at least I only have Google's forced app wasting space even if I don't want to use it and download something different from the Play Store. On any other manufacturer's phone, now I have TWO apps I can't uninstall. Absolute garbage. Hopefully the EU passes some laws regulating bloatware and mandating that any unwanted app can be properly uninstalled to recover space on the device. If I don't want to use a crappy G-Suite app, the Play Store is right there with tons of choices. I don't need Samsung or OnePlus or Nothing to force a second suite of crappy apps that I'm also not going to use on me.
The apps are pretty good, that’s why, nice video
The first gen RIO MP3 which came out 5 years before was not even close to the competitor to the first iPod. The first RIO could hold 12 songs in 1997. By 2000 there were many players on the market that could hold 5 gigs of music. A year before the iPOD.
Well, technically true, but to normal people like me (at the time) an mp3 player was something like a thumbdrive with buttons and a tiny screen. There were more obscure hard drive based ones, but they were made just like bigger thumb drives. When the ipod came out it really felt like the future (and for me it even was, I am still using one, 20 years later with a few upgrades)
I have a Pixel 8 Pro but with Graphene Os on it, so I have control over everything but the most basic bare-bones included apps, like the phone app and camera app. I can even uninstall the Google Play Store if I wanted. With Sand-boxed Play services, Google play services are treated like any other app rather than being the backbone of the system.
based.
I have a Pixel 6 w/ grapheneOS
The ecosystem pull is definitely strong. However, I think the software side is a much bigger deal than the hardware one. I have a Linux PC, Google Pixel phone/buds, Apple Macbook, and Samsung watch...and yet they all talk to each other pretty well through the magic glue that is Google services. Install Chrome, sign into your Google account, and your done. Email, photos, passwords, all the normal browser stuff (bookmarks, history, etc), Google drive, Google docs, Google meet/chat, Keep notes, etc etc.
I have "EVERY" app on my home screen all divided into folders. minimum time swiping left and right
I have a folder dedicated to default apps I can't removed 😭
Google apps 💀
Samsung apps 💀
All this info, and they can't even give me a good ad?
Good job!
Brings to mind the Cisco commercial “The Network Is The Computer!”
I bought my first Apple product in 2021. Now I’m all in.
Are there Evils to such a closed system? In theory, maybe.
But the Benefits are real.
Noise Cancelling does work no matter what device the AirPods are connected to, it's in ear detection that doesn't work.
Great video though
11:39 TRON: LEGACY MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️ WHAT TF IS A BAD MOVIE 🗣️🔥
Your videos are unique my dude
Again another banger of a video. I am really glad to sub .
I love tech and Design and you are perfect combo for that ! , Design psychology , Default bias and UI UX , these are stuff I love. Tech and design are different things but combo is awesome. Ecosystem creates an artificial sense of choice where if you buy something else you miss out more. I own ipad , Windows pc , Linux laptop and Android phone, I love crazy stuff and yeah if not for shareit ( app like Xender ) or P2P ( ethernet transfer ) I won't be able to send data between my devs. I still don't like ipad can't store music without itunes. Apple is stingy , if you put MP3 won't show on Apple music unless some work done , feels like a bit of " default " issues.
Great video! I almost didn't click on it because I assumed it would be about how TikTok, etc. suck us into a feed, which is old and tired at this point. I clicked only because I trust you because of your previous videos. If the view velocity starts tanking on this video, may be worthwhile testing a thumbnail change - maybe the frame you showed with apps on your phone being all Google or Meta pretty much? The thumbnail right now doesn't tell me anything tbh until I read the title.
I didn't realise traffic was solved in NY lol. And even for pedestrians, cars there kill people every other day.
Great video! What song is at :50? I keep hearing it in TH-cam videos and I love it haha in guessing it's from one of the main music song licensing sites.
If you have a thunderbolt cable, with enough data rate, you do not need anything else.
automating everything with AI will just make artisan work more valuable, and people that find joy in doing things will get more encouragement to do so
you will really appreciate when someone types a message for you instead of picking from the 3 most likely options an AI gave em
Exactly! me seeing Ai slope pictures makes me just wanna go get a commission from an actual artist. Not saying I need to do that but if I wanted a painting or a desktop background I'd want to get a commission from a human artist who puts there soul and passion into it and not some machine who will take over the world one day.
1:52 AirPod pros noise cancellation works on android devices. I had a 13pm got a fold 4 and the noise cancellation works fine
that first question is interesting. samsung 8, microsoft 3, google 1, twitter 1, facebook 1, others 7. not too bad
11 out of 14 of the icons on my iPhone's home screen are Apple made apps...
I'm in pretty deep by now, but to be honest I like it! The advantages it gives me to use the apps Apple makes on my Apple devices makes certain things just much easier...
Next to an iPhone I use almost exclusively Apple products... The advantages outweigh the disadvantages in my opinion.
Excluding pre-installed apps like calculator, I have 2 from google (TH-cam and Gmail), 2 from microsoft (Microsoft maths and teams), and 1 from meta (whatsapp)
the standards like the imperial system 😂
2:41, well, my first apple device was a mac….and then nothing, for a long time. Later i got an ipad pro, and that‘s it, again. It’s a great device, but i run into walls all to often. I use apple devices from my company, but private? The iPad is enough for a long time…
I think the Eco system trap comes from tech reviewers who speak as if thats what we're supposed to do
This reminds me of the time I tried to sync my Zune with my Apple laptop.
1:37 That's.. not correct, the ring works with Pixel for example and you only miss out on 1 feature since it uses AI on the Samsung phone.
Yes it works with all androids I'm pretty sure
It does. Great video overall but some points were just wrong.
unexpected Cherdleys at 7:22 lol
so that after you purchase their hardware you'll be stucked with their services and would continuously make profits from you even if you still use the same device you bought from them or if you actually want to buy one locking you from their ecosystem means there's 99% chance that you'll be buying their products
and the cycle never ends
Xiaomi (made the phone): 18 apps
Google (because Android): 19 apps
I've bought multiple Xiaomi products. First the Redmi Note 8 Pro which i liked, then the Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G, Redmi Buds 3 Pro, Redmi Pad and Redmi Pad Pro. I kept going to Xiaomi because the combination of features and price was met for me. I was often impressed by how wonky the other brands were. Newer phones more expensive than the previous models and fewer features. Meanwhile Xiaomi phones have most of the festures and looking for. Sometimes it's not even them pulling me in for some things, it's the decisions of others pushing me away. For example, why are you making your 200$ phone with a 7+in 720p screen and replacing the ultrawide camera with yet another 2MP depth camera? And then no headphone jack or expandable storage.
true
The thing I've found is that Google pixels are really good on the second hand market in Europe(which I suppose you live there, you have a Xiaomi).
Got a pixel 6 for 200 euros like a year and a half ago, and man does it slap all the Xiaomi phones in the price range at the time, and still now(especially the camera)
Xiaomi has done all the things you complain about in your comment, and their software is still buggy and messy. My dad got a xiaomi last year and the stock gallery app has reels now and the files app has ads on it... You can't be seriously recommending this.
Well, my phone has only 2 apps on its home screen by the same company. TH-cam and TH-cam Music. And I do have 20 apps on my home screen.
Its just thar I go out of my way to avoid at all getting locked into a ecossystem.
I'm currently windows/android. I'm waiting for next year until we can say if Apple Intelligence makes sense. If it does I'm switching completely, otherwise I think most tech just annoys me too much and I go back to linux and some dumb phone.
I LOVE LINUX! I love the KDE connect app bc it makes feel like you are in the apple ecosystem while you aren't. I use fedora 40 it's incredible!
I think the opposite is happening. everybody hates using there phones now, 2000s digital cameras are trendy, physical media is making a comeback and people are becoming more privacy conscious. Personally ecosystems are very inconvenient. I prioritize quality hardware and software over seamless integration. I use Linux(although I’m thinking about trying freeBSD), I have an iPhone, starting a physical media collection and am getting a 5 disk cd changer.
I think it’s mostly in people’s heads. My Sony earbuds just work on my iPhone and cost 1/5 compared to AirPods.
That Cherdleys camera was unexpected 😂
3:23 hot pluggable HDD in a laptop. You never see this anywhere else.
0:07 17 Apple, 3 Microsoft, 2 Proton, 2 Google, 1 Meta (WhatsApp), 1 Amazon (IMDB), 1 financial, 1 other.
Can't wait for the techno-feudal future wherein we must swear allegiance to our Ecoduchy's Corporate Lord!
We make "easy" choices, hence driving product development. I start with accountability with self, try to shift to harder choices, removing "the want" for many things. It's working but taking long and practice. So it feels neutral toward what one company/people want to design their product lines. and if there isn't an option I like, well I do things manually or with someone. a life of short cuts isn't a life of action. but who the hell am I to judge or suggest. thx
what I do to combat this is just never rely too much on tech, like, who needs noise suppression. nerds
I'm a nerd too, but I have limits
13:01 ... Dang, that's some gooood marketing. Enrico please never work in the marketing department of any evil tec company
Which google app cannot I not use on my iPhone? For android users Apple Music, Apple TV, and apple podcast are available. No iMessage however but there’s RCS. There are choices, people have chosen already.
The thing is about experience , you get better experience with the default options because those OEMs choose to not let others integrate with the system as seamlessly as their own . In android , it's not a major issue cause it's far open but on ios apple restricts everything
3:42 my monitor mentioned!
SAME HERE GIRL 😆
nope, sorry. most of what you're referring to has to do with Apple locking their customers in their ecosystem. on my OnePlus 8 (Android) device i use Mega for "drive", modded Pixel camera app, Inbox for mail, Grayjay for TH-cam. and my daily driver laptop runs Linux btw.
Im on GrapheneOS on my Phone and Linux on ALL my PCs
You make very good points, but please, do something for your audio: you have too much noise reduction on your mike, and your voice sounds really bad, like if you were on a low bitrate phone line. It's possible that you are recording in a noisy environment and you need noise reduction, but it's really distracting.
You can't change the play button bind on mac?
yeah, realized you get usb2 c to c type cable in meta quest 3, that failes own speed test...
Nothing new! We had all that with Sony's proprietary connectors in the 90s. Do you think the EU forced Apple to adopt USB-C for no reason? Software/Hardware there's no difference. Everything can be used to build a monopoly.
You didn't mention that LLMs cannot reason (according to a paper apple published) so there are only specialized models to combine data sources. But, that same data file you downloaded can be mapped to another ecosystem's data format seamlessly using LLMs (because they can pattern match very well) just like password managers already do with standards. Also the google automated email thing doesn't require ecosystems because it's exclusively email as shown, even if external data sources may be more useful. And there's adversarial interoperability too, like I use KDE connect between my android phone and my linux computer to sync notifications, clipboard, links, files, texts, etc. just like an apple device might do, and it's a third party service on both platforms with deep system integration (not possible on iOS but any open ecosystem can do it)!
So, we could very well beat the problem using the same technology that might cause it!
0:00 none, because I have three apps in the dock and an empty homescreen 😎
Love how you have your phone super minimal but it doesn't change those apps are still on your phone. you just can't see them. You can't even uninstall them because they are defaults 😭
16 google apps if we count the folders too
6 samsung apps
12:36 hope they don't learn from this to do that😢. But it sure is coming even earlier probably.
i have a lenovo laptop with fedora linux with kde plasma, a old redmi running a custom rom with microg and no google services, i use wired earphones, mozilla firefox, a bunch of usb drives and a nokia 8110 4g
For me… it’s none. Because I think before installing/using software.
Galaxy ring works with every android phone with Samsung Health installed. only ai features won't be available if its not a Samsung galaxy device.
so why would i buy the ring ?
@@belkacemF to track your health, sleep and fitness. That's what it was made for. I don't need ai health recommendations, to control my camera with it or to dismiss an alarm...
I travel solo a lot, , and I can’t even imagine how that would be possible without my iPhone . I use to to pay, for WhatsApp , for photos, for my bank, to book accommodation, to translate , as an alarm, as a taxi, as a flash light, as navigation ,,,I can’t imagine doing what I do in the 1980s
I don't have any Apple, Microsoft, Google (except TH-cam), or Meta hardware, software, or services, or anything controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. I can do everything your ecosystem does with ease and I'll never go back. It does require imagination, courage to say 'No', and some effort (the deeper their blood sucking tentacles have reached into you the harder it is).
I'm a solo traveler as well as a biker from India. I use android and I manage to do all that you say without any hassle using products from multiple different brands. It's not just apple that has the capability. Tech has evolved
you didn't need to specify that it's an iphone
Oops😬 i just found out that i have exactly 20 google apps on my phone. With the samsung apps its even worse. I have 24 samsung apps on my phone. That's kinda shocking actually💀
I have 7 different appmakers as most used apps so not the best not the worst.