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I disagree; I find it harder to migrate away from the iOS/Android duopoly than it is to migrate from the macOS/Windows duopoly. Because so much of modern deskt
by linguae 4y ago
I disagree; I find it harder to migrate away from the iOS/Android duopoly than it is to migrate from the macOS/Windows duopoly. Because so much of modern desktop computing has migrated to the Web, I can use any operating system that supports a modern Web browser. LibreOffice has pretty good compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats for my needs at home; the only time I need Microsoft Office is at work, where I have access to Windows and macOS anyway. I could migrate to Linux or one of the BSDs full time at home if I wanted to (I currently use both FreeBSD and Windows 10), and the only thing I'd lose would be access to some DRM-protected media from iTunes I purchased years ago.
However, if I were to give up my iPhone for a phone running GNU/Linux rather than Android, I'd have to give up many apps that I depend on, some of them with no Web versions. The smartphone situation today feels like how the Linux desktop was in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
- wardedVibe 4y agoEven migrating to variants of android other than the vendor installed one is a major pita, that is only possible for an increasingly small subset of phones.