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Companies exist to make money; why would anyone think differently?
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Your thinking is all over the place. You've changed your criticism of capitalism into one of monopolies. Everyone understands that monopolies tend towards abuse of customers/consumers, including capitalists.
You're right, I haven't expressed myself in the best terms.
Sadly, in relation to this, governments could be your friend. A good government could stand up for the "right" thing instead of the thing that makes money. But somehow, large subsets of the population have been convinced that government is inherently evil. Companies exist to make money; why would anyone think differently?
It's a bandit that's too big for you to stare down, shaking you down for money every time you turn around.
No company is your friend, they just want your money.
However, out of that list of four, Apple is the one that I have seen being “least evil” with me and my data. Google dropped their “don’t be evil” motto for a very damn good reason, and the safety of their own app marketplace is a fucking joke. Facebook is even worse than Google, in that it has never stopped trying to appear innocent of wrongdoing while paddling like mad under the surface. Microsoft… has gone all Spyw…
Google hast the most transparency for your data. Google was one of the first to allow you to download it. It shows you all services you use. It tells you constantly that this is the case. It has the best 2fa.
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your argument does not hold water since there are many more alternatives to use. You are in no way forced to use either of these services.
That doesn't really address the issue he raises though, you are somewhat forced to use modern devices if you wish to partake in the world/society. In addition if you get the choice at work between certain laptops and certain phones, you are absolutely forced to use those. In addition if you look at the alternatives in the smartphone branch you get the choice between high-end android-based devices and iOS devices or o…
Yes, there are compromises to be made between convenience and freedom. You are arguing that you prefer convenience than freedom; congrats.
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The device drivers can be a problem on many devices, even when running AOSP-derived distributions many of these are lifted from a stock distribution and used as blobs. The bit about Android needing Play Store/Youtube/Pay apps is not true though, I do not have any of these on any of my devices which continue to work just fine - I'd go so far as to say that they work better without these parts: battery consumption goes…
> can be a problem on many devices Can you provide a one 100% working Android device with open drivers?
[2] https://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
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Apple makes money on their HW and their media sales and application sales. You have to spend the money by choice for Apple to make money. What does most of the world pay Google for? At Google you are the product. Why is that so hard for everyone to understand. The same goes for FB.
> Apple makes money on their HW and their media sales and application sales. I don't see why they can't make some extra by making you the product as well. Also, people who are into Apple are known to be willing to pay for stuff. A very lucrative group for everyone.
Adobe is making money from selling software. They also make money from their telemetry system.
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