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Is that the central question? Most people using Android or Apple's very own macOS today use their device as if they're in the second situation with not a care
by DCKing 3y ago
Is that the central question?
Most people using Android or Apple's very own macOS today use their device as if they're in the second situation with not a care in the world.
Anyone's walled garden experience isn't meaningfully dependent on anyone else's sanctioned sideloading or not.
- mark_l_watson 3y agoI more or less agree that most people just don’t care. It surprises me that maybe I don’t care anymore either. It has been years since I was a FSF member, and even though I have 3 Linux laptops that I enjoy occasionally, so much of my digital life is spent on a very nice iPad Pro, with just a few apps, besides Safari, that I use: a Mosh client because I always have a few screens open on a powerful remote server available with a perfect tmux and Emacs setup, the Chess.com app, ProtonMail and Calendar apps, and entertainment: YouTube and YouTube Music apps, and the Disney and many other streaming apps. Apple’s walled garden is most of my digital life, and at least for now, that is good enough. I can imagine switching to a Samsung foldable phone with a good docking story, but that will probably not happen. EDIT: another things that keeps me from caring about being in a walled garden is that so much of my Intellectual life is serviced by the cloud: Colab Pro for most deep learning experiments, the web based Leanpub authoring system, etc. Choosing devices and operating systems seems less important. When I travel, it does not matter much if I grab my smallest Linux laptop or my iPad Pro to take on a trip.