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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by cwhiz on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:13AM (#24738140)
If you don’t like Apple... don’t buy their stuff? It’s that easy.

Just go buy a phone running the market leading OS, Android.

Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by mpol on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:22AM (#24738179)
The market for smartphones is broken, period. You can choose for Apple, which is all about power politics like this news article is demonstrating, they are not here for you. Or you can choose for Android, which is one big privacy invading monster, they are not here for you either. It is a duopoly, which should (and probably does) fall under the same rules as a monopoly: the governments should fix this, the market cannot fix this.

It is not possible for other parties to break this market open. Other parties are relegated to niche markets without any power. Using a smartphone from a niche party will give you a very reduced experience and is for most people not a viable option.

Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by fetbaffe on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:54AM (#24738327)
I can’t escape Apple even I would change to Android according to this decision done by Apple against Telegram.
Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by 1_player on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:21AM (#24738170)
Not so easy, there are arguments that the company behind the other OS is not a force of good either.