If you want products where you give the company money and they give you stuff - buy Apple.
The "stuff" tends to come with artificial limitations so that in order to use it effectively I have to give Apple even more money.
The "stuff" tends to come with artificial limitations so that in order to use it effectively I have to give Apple even more money.
Yes, you can come up with arguments why these things are actually good for users. But coincidentally the workarounds always end up with more revenue for Apple: AirPods, 30% commission on apps, inflated BTO upgrade prices...
- most modern high end cell phones aren’t coming with headphone jacks anymore. All iPhones come with a headphones
- most high end laptops also don’t have internal expandability anymore.
-you also don’t have to buy AirPods. You can buy any Bluetooth headphones
- Google also charges the same 30% for apps.
- the default is allow signed apps. Not apps from the store.
- [citation needed]. High end android phones with headphone do exist, so you definitely have the choice to support those vendors.
- most
- bluetooth
- f-droid, saving the day yet again.
- the default. You can just enable that without having to do anything shady at all.
Google wants browsers to be like OSes, because they can't directly compete with desktop OSes. This concept is incompatible with security and privacy, so Google's interests are more harmful (they fund Mozilla).
Granular permissions don't solve the privacy issue, because denying them contributes to fingerprinting. Also, JIT compilers violate W^X.