> And once you're in, they make it as hard as possible to leave. Nonsense. On my Mac, I can export all my pictures from Photos as jpeg (or several other format

> And once you're in, they make it as hard as possible to leave. Nonsense. On my Mac, I can export all my pictures from Photos as jpeg (or several other formats); contacts as .vcf; calendars as .ics; documents in several portable formats; my music is in iTunes as (unencumbered) mp3 or m4a, nicely organised by Artists and Albums; emails are in traditional .mbox files, unless I'm mistaken, but at any rate mailboxes can be exported; even Messages are available in some directory in the Library folder, though in an ugly XML-y format; etc. I don't know how easy other OSes make it to "leave", but you can't really argue that Apple is trying to make it hard (except by making the garden more beautiful, safe, and well organised than the others).