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How does the Mac have extremely strong vendor lock-in?

Sure, you can use the App Store and use all the stuff that integrates with iPhone, iCloud, etc

But you can also just treat it as Linux for Laptops (that actually works), and roll with all the standard open source tools.

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I don't disagree with you, but technically speaking MacOS is still proprietary and Asahi is not compatible with the latest and greatest Apple devices.

While they don't _prevent_ Asahi from doing what they're doing, they certainly don't go out of their way to make it easy for them.

I wasn't thinking of Asahi. Just pointing out that you can run all the standard unix/open source tools and apps on Mac OS (vi, git, qgis, blender, vsc, python, node, etc). With the advantage of higher quality hardware and generally less fiddling.

But if you don't like it, switch. I don't see vendor lock-in.

A lot of convenient things come with the lock-in if you have >1 device

Notes sync, Copy/Paste would be hard to give up and took zero effort

I don't now how the MacOS equivalent compares, but Linux/Windows has KDE Connect that I use for that https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Apple is also iOS

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