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>At that point consumers would be free to make a choice to switch away from Apple if they value their privacy enough. Consumers who spent hundreds of dollars i
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>At that point consumers would be free to make a choice to switch away from Apple if they value their privacy enough.
Consumers who spent hundreds of dollars in Appstore purchases and have 10+ years of photos, movies and data tied to Apple won't just suddenly leave all that and move to Android and start their digital life from scratch.
And the young consumers just starting their digital lives, are jumping in the ecosystem their friends and family already use (iMessage lock-in). It's basically not even your choice at that point, it's more that you're forced to.
- thfuran 1y agoAnd switching to Android, which is only technically not the only alternative, doesn't exactly help privacy anyways.
- parineum 1y agoThe alternative is not having a smart phone.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoNo, the world is not either smartphone or no-smarthone, it's not binary. The correct alternative is not having anti consumer vendor lock-in practices in smartphones. We had PWA even before we had locked in app-stores but then Apple saw the dollar signs of locking people and app devs in their graded and gave up on PWA and doubled down on draconian lock-in.