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The alternative to an iPhone is an Android phone. They are both big tech, but one is built by a fairly invasive anti-competitive villain, while the other is bui
by bee_rider 2y ago
The alternative to an iPhone is an Android phone. They are both big tech, but one is built by a fairly invasive anti-competitive villain, while the other is build by the flagship company of surveillance capitalism. No good option, but one is clearly worse, right?
- scarface_74 2y agoThere are always open source alternatives that are perfectly acceptable according to HN…
- bee_rider 2y agoWell I don’t know this HN guy but I think he’s wrong, haha. (I mean it is a giant website full of tech people so of course we’re going to over-estimate the practicality of some extremely niche techie solution).
- lukeschlather 2y agoI don't know. Apple does place significant barriers to open source software. And this isn't just an innocuous thing, it means you're likely to have more trouble locating a free and safe application to do some simple task and likely to be steered toward adware. And Apple keeps their hands clean on paper but they make a lot of money off of adware on iOS.