> The question absolutely is whether Apple can be trusted. This is a false dichotomy. I choose to use a Mac, but I also choose not to let my Mac phone home to

> The question absolutely is whether Apple can be trusted. This is a false dichotomy. I choose to use a Mac, but I also choose not to let my Mac phone home to Cupertino unless I allow it. Why can't I have that choice? Why does it have to be all or nothing? I'm only interested in the Mac, I have zero interest in Apple "services". It's a fine computing device, but I see no reason why the device has to continue to talk to Apple after I purchase it, except to download software updates — which I manually trigger. It's not about trust, it's about choice. EDIT: Now if Apple provided a way to easily disable all of those "services" that phone home, there would be a lot fewer complaints about this issue. But they don't.