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>What happens when the dictates are not as benevolent?

OP literally answered this question. Buy a different phone.

Except that all your photos are in iCloud, all your messages in iMessage, all your music in iTunes... and all those apps you've bought. "Just buy another phone" is fine if you have no problem throwing away all your data and purchases and start over.

It's not just a phone, it's a whole ecosystem.

Doesn't iTunes provide DRM-free music exports? You could migrate your media to some platform agnostic version like Nextcloud.

Yes, if you buy albums, they are completely DRM-free.

Many people just stream these days though.

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