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Phone Purgatory (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by galaxy_nova@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Recently got a pixel as a secondary work phone and was reminded that I actually kinda like android (my main is an iPhone). Problem is mostly that I don’t want an even higher level spyware device. Of course I could use graphene but I use Apple Pay, find my / AirTags regularly and I also would need to find good alternatives to iCloud, and photos which I honestly kind of like. I suppose I could possibly get a pixel watch and get around the pay limitations but maybe some users who have switches might have some general insight.

Edit: I guess my best option right now is to stick with my current plan of both devices and maybe see what oem graphene partners with and if that somehow changes anything

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 1 month ago

Samsung galaxy smart tags are a thing and Find too, I'm using it on a daily basis.

I use Syncthing as an alternative to iCloud to sync files between devices. But there is also NextCloud and even commercial offerings like DropBox.

For Photos I use Immich and it's amazing.

And at least here in Korea Samsung Pay works everywhere while my wife with Apple Pay has to carry coach or a credit card with her everywhere she goes.