> Whether it is an android device, an iPhone, a Dell laptop or a new M1 macbook you are beholden to a corporation that doesn't care about privacy.

Yet Dell and Lenovo offer computers with Linux pre-installed, but so many technical people ignore them because Apple is shiny and fast.

If this trend continues then Linux and other open source OS will eventually exist only as a virtualized guest inside a locked-down proprietary system.

There is genuine choice in the market now, but in ten years there won't be if people keep chasing baubles.