It started to feel bad to be so deep in Apple ecosystem when I see their greedy behaviour. They’re corporation, sure, but it didn’t feel that bad before.
@pawel where to escape?
@smatyszczak @pawel yeah, that’s the issue. Not much of any move available.
@realwaaagh @smatyszczak @pawel to some extent - yeah, sure, but if you're willing to start with some friction - it's perfectly doable
Android (I'm currently using completely #deGoogle:d currently)+whatever PC OS integration is perfectly doable using KDE Connect (despite its name, it works everywhere, but works the best on linux)
HomeKit is perfectly replacable using Home Assistant (and you'll get more customization)
The only thing I'd want from iOS is AirPlay, which is somehow replacable with SnapCast and Focus modes (which I haven't found replacement for yet)
To be fair - most of the things from Apple ecosystem is relatively easily replacable with oftentimes FOSS solutions
@pgronkievitz @smatyszczak @pawel the main problem, I don’t see Android as a replacement of iOS. We need a fully open source mobile OS which is useable. Degoogled one is still the OS owned by google. Unless I’m wrong. Google is as bad as Apple.
@realwaaagh @smatyszczak @pawel
We need a fully open source mobile OS which is useable. Degoogled one is still the OS owned by google
again - to some extent - yeah, but lots of custom ROMs based off of pure AOSP remove google stuff entirely. The problem is - most of the app developers assume you've got Google Play Services or at least Huawei's alternative (looking at you, PKO BP). Open Source projects have one, major positive side - they can't be owned by someone. You can fork them and say "hey, it's my own version, with some modifications". That's why I love them. (let's skip discussion about copyleft & permissive licenses)
@pawel I know what you mean. That’s the reason why I’m so using Apple hardware, but I’m more and more software independent (#selfhosting )
@pawel still better then google, ms and meta all together
@gramynamacu is it though?
@pawel ok, so what do you mean by “greedy”?
Because I can noticed mainly that they are “greedy” via other big companies like Epic or Google. They charge them for everything. The bad thing is that they re-charge that to you as customer and the bad guy is Apple. I like the way that I know what I’m paying for - iPhone, Mac, iCloud. I hate, when some try to convince me that something is for free, like google or meta, or fucking copilot.
Apple is the corp and I don’t want to defend them…
@pawel but it’s unfair to that now it’s like a sport to hit them from all other sides. We are blind on what the others do just because we think we have something for free, or cheaper.