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Comment by _8j50 | Hacker News Reader

You know whom I don't have to fight tooth and nail with? Apple. Yeah, shit, but not openly hostile against me.

It feels like breaking up with an abusive ex when I discarded all things google.so much hostility and drama.

My iPhone is good enough to use the 3 apps I want without any drama. With Google they always do some shady shit and I was like "oh well, this is the best I can do".

Can't wait till i stop using smartphones entirely.

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Last time I checked, even transfering photos from an iphone to another device was complicated.

What mechanism would you find acceptable? I open Google Photos on my iPhone which sends my pictures up into the cloud and then they are easily retrievable via a link that devices on the Internet can go to.

Apple seems to have entered a phase where they are mostly just quietly decent. They have some bad things like iCloud and some good things like their hardware (mostly), but agree that they are not hostile to their users and don’t seem to be breaking their stuff too badly.

Hopefully they won’t go more into advertising. Anything the advertising industry touches turns into toxic garbage. Ad revenue is poisonous to any other focus for a business.

Last time I checked you can't install apps on their devices from other sources. You don't have to fight them tooth and nail because they've already declawed and muzzled you. There's no point to.

They way all consumer OSes are moving.... Do you think the next thing will be any better?!?

Most linuxes (minus Ubuntu) are already user friendly.

The only time I had to fight with my Linux computer was de-SNAP-ing it cause it would do forced updates and unstoppable growls. And fuck emulating Windows.

I have no idea but at least I have good hardware/software for now. My opinion is, vendor locked in architectures like android or iOS are like the proprietary Unixes of the 80s and 90s and need to die.

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