How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too

Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by simplecomplex on Saturday January 19, 2019 @09:58PM (#18950676)

The author says he switched because of “Then came 2018, with its stunning revelations and outrages by Facebook, Apple, Google, and others. With privacy and free speech—in short, digital autonomy—deeply under threat”

Comparing Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple is apples to oranges. What did Apple do that threatens customer privacy and free speech?

You don’t need to switch to Linux to stop using Facebook and Twitter...

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by shmerl on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:02PM (#18950691)

> What did Apple do that threatens customer privacy and free speech

Apple affects many things negatively by being extremely pro lock-in and patent aggressive. So I'd say it's a good thing when someone stops using Apple's products and switches to Linux instead.

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by simion314 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:03AM (#18952260)

You can't have GPL apps on iOS, you can't put them in the Store and you are not allowed to side load apps, this is one reason I dislike Apple, others include the fact you have to replace the battery, motherboard or some body part (I can't remember for sure) and the entire keyboard if one of your keys breaks. This is why personally dislike them and why I will not use their products but I understand that people value different things then me.

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by simplecomplex on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:09PM (#18950716)

It’s not a good thing if you like seeing software devs get paid :)

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by shmerl on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:12PM (#18950728)

The company doesn't need to be a nasty anti-competitive jerk to pay developers.

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by briandear on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:44PM (#18950862)

What’s anti competitive?

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by shmerl on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:46PM (#18950869)

It's when instead of competing on merit, companies focus on controlling the market through monopolization techniques. I.e. simply banning competition.

Lock-in (i.e. refusal to support interoperability), patent aggression, forbidding competing technologies in their store and so on and so forth.

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by saagarjha on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:11PM (#18950991)

Having all software distribution for their embedded devices go through a centralized authority?

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by rdiddly on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:05PM (#18950699)

It's possible that he means "revelations... by... Apple" -- like the fact that they received all that attention from the feds.

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by lsanger on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:01PM (#18955566)

Apple wants to store your data in iCloud--I don't wanna. I don't trust them.

Apple is happy to learn a lot about you. Hence the feds can learn a lot about you through them.

But most important to me is this wretched speech by Tim Cook: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/03/tim-cook-adl-keynote-sp...

What a censorious tool. Soured me on Apple for, probably, ever.

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