Yesterday, Apple took the stage in Cupertino at WWDC to introduce us to iOS 27 and Siri AI. This is the much-improved Siri that we were promised two years
There you go. I saw it on MacRumors yesterday. It’s weird to see Apple stuff on an Android site, but Android Police used to review iPhones when they came out. They’d give them an honest try. Reviews even varied from “decent phone but I loved going back to Android” to “I could use this and be happy but I still prefer Android.” I think they gave them a fair shake.
If you mean MacRumors commenters, I think a lot of them are Apple shareholders, and/or long-time Mac users.
If they’re not shareholders, I only really have a guess. I remember back in the day, there were like four computer platforms. Apple, Atari, Amiga, and IBM/Compatibles. Of those, only Apple remains. IBM/Compatible is now “Windows” and Linux isn’t really a category — that is to say, free Linux software exists, but when it comes to paid software, it’s basically Windows… and occasionally Mac. Microsoft didn’t get huge by magic or accidentally. They were good once. IBM folded a long time ago, at least in the consumer space. They do still exist. But for a while, they were making Macs. IBM made the PowerPC chip that powered Macs in the late 90s, early 00s. The same architecture also powered the Xbox 360, and maybe one other console (GameCube? Not sure). Anyway, Apple is basically the only old school computer company left that still makes its own software. On the Windows side, you have Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more, but they don’t make the software that runs on their hardware. It’s all super generic stuff with their logo on it, but it runs Windows. Macs still run macOS by Apple. So the loyalty is understandable. Doubly so on phones, because you either have the iPhone, which is like a handheld Mac, it runs macOS but with a different desktop environment (and it’s called iOS)… and then you have what amounts to spyware sold by an advertising company (Google) and licensed like Windows, to people making generic phones and badging them like PCs. Android phones are weaker than iPhones as far as raw compute power, they cost about the same, and Google makes more than the base iPhone costs, on average, per person for the personal data they collect and sell.
So to sum it, loyalty to Apple is because they’ve been around for 50 years, they’re primarily a computer company, and you are the customer and not the product. AND anyone who invested in them early on is rich now. If YOU hate Apple, but somehow you went back in time to 1997 or 2007 (before the iMac unveiling, or before the iPhone unveiling), dollars to donuts you invest your whole life savings in Apple. Why TF wouldn’t you take that free money?
That said, raw compute power is not 100% of a phone’s experience. My 7 year old Galaxy S10 has a better keyboard than my 1.5 year old iPhone 16 Pro Max does, and the S10’s keyboard doesn’t hallucinate shit after I’ve typed it. iOS has been known to do that. I also wanted to turn that old Android phone into a cosplay prop. I did a few things you can’t do on an iPhone. Case, that’s easy, both of them can do that. But changing the grid and the icons? The latter is possible on iOS, but a huge pain in the arse. The former isn’t. Having a 3x3 grid of 200% scaled icons to turn a modern smartphone into the NookPhone from Animal Crossing: New Horizons is simply not possible on iOS. So, there are valid reasons people use Android, and I don’t just assume they’re up Google’s arse because they chose an advertising company over a computer company. Though, some of them are. Just like some iPhone users are insufferable twats about having the superior phone that anyone can buy. It’s not like that one Ferrari you can only buy via invitation from the company because you’ve owned so many of their previous models.
And they all go quite when Apple politely obliges to whatever China demands from them. That site is the definition of toxic-fanboyism. So many commenters their blindly believe every declaration Apple makes.
There’s one comment in there lamenting the lack of innovation from the EU. You know the continent that contains CERN. Yep ain’t no innovation going on over here, it’s amazing we even got internal plumbing.
But then again Americans aren’t the smartest tools in the shed.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/09/eu-says-decision-not-to-launch-siri-ai-in-europe-is-apples/
There you go. I saw it on MacRumors yesterday. It’s weird to see Apple stuff on an Android site, but Android Police used to review iPhones when they came out. They’d give them an honest try. Reviews even varied from “decent phone but I loved going back to Android” to “I could use this and be happy but I still prefer Android.” I think they gave them a fair shake.
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The comments on that post are crazy delusional. How do you end up so far in a corporations pocket?
If you mean MacRumors commenters, I think a lot of them are Apple shareholders, and/or long-time Mac users.
If they’re not shareholders, I only really have a guess. I remember back in the day, there were like four computer platforms. Apple, Atari, Amiga, and IBM/Compatibles. Of those, only Apple remains. IBM/Compatible is now “Windows” and Linux isn’t really a category — that is to say, free Linux software exists, but when it comes to paid software, it’s basically Windows… and occasionally Mac. Microsoft didn’t get huge by magic or accidentally. They were good once. IBM folded a long time ago, at least in the consumer space. They do still exist. But for a while, they were making Macs. IBM made the PowerPC chip that powered Macs in the late 90s, early 00s. The same architecture also powered the Xbox 360, and maybe one other console (GameCube? Not sure). Anyway, Apple is basically the only old school computer company left that still makes its own software. On the Windows side, you have Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more, but they don’t make the software that runs on their hardware. It’s all super generic stuff with their logo on it, but it runs Windows. Macs still run macOS by Apple. So the loyalty is understandable. Doubly so on phones, because you either have the iPhone, which is like a handheld Mac, it runs macOS but with a different desktop environment (and it’s called iOS)… and then you have what amounts to spyware sold by an advertising company (Google) and licensed like Windows, to people making generic phones and badging them like PCs. Android phones are weaker than iPhones as far as raw compute power, they cost about the same, and Google makes more than the base iPhone costs, on average, per person for the personal data they collect and sell.
So to sum it, loyalty to Apple is because they’ve been around for 50 years, they’re primarily a computer company, and you are the customer and not the product. AND anyone who invested in them early on is rich now. If YOU hate Apple, but somehow you went back in time to 1997 or 2007 (before the iMac unveiling, or before the iPhone unveiling), dollars to donuts you invest your whole life savings in Apple. Why TF wouldn’t you take that free money?
That said, raw compute power is not 100% of a phone’s experience. My 7 year old Galaxy S10 has a better keyboard than my 1.5 year old iPhone 16 Pro Max does, and the S10’s keyboard doesn’t hallucinate shit after I’ve typed it. iOS has been known to do that. I also wanted to turn that old Android phone into a cosplay prop. I did a few things you can’t do on an iPhone. Case, that’s easy, both of them can do that. But changing the grid and the icons? The latter is possible on iOS, but a huge pain in the arse. The former isn’t. Having a 3x3 grid of 200% scaled icons to turn a modern smartphone into the NookPhone from Animal Crossing: New Horizons is simply not possible on iOS. So, there are valid reasons people use Android, and I don’t just assume they’re up Google’s arse because they chose an advertising company over a computer company. Though, some of them are. Just like some iPhone users are insufferable twats about having the superior phone that anyone can buy. It’s not like that one Ferrari you can only buy via invitation from the company because you’ve owned so many of their previous models.
And they all go quite when Apple politely obliges to whatever China demands from them. That site is the definition of toxic-fanboyism. So many commenters their blindly believe every declaration Apple makes.
There’s one comment in there lamenting the lack of innovation from the EU. You know the continent that contains CERN. Yep ain’t no innovation going on over here, it’s amazing we even got internal plumbing.
But then again Americans aren’t the smartest tools in the shed.
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