The difference is that I won't go around evangelizing (i.e. marketing) their products as a consumer, pumping up demand if I knew the negative costs associated with it. On the corporate side is Apple's hypocrisy PR- i.e. don't drink their koolaid.
I'm curious, which Google product must you use that has no reasonable analog from a different vendor?
I'm not being snarky here just a little confused.
I suppose Android could fall into that definition, although LineageOS[0]+MicroG[1] do provide a reasonable alternative.
My question isn't rhetorical. I'm genuinely not familiar with any Google product without a reasonable alternative.
Edit: Fixed nonsensical sentence.
As a general rule, I don't use the search engine. And not just because of Google's market power. It's also because the quality of search results have dropped enormously.
At this point, other search engines are at least as good, IMHO.
I don't think it'll ever come because we've allowed ourselves to create an atmosphere where there's entities doing their utmost to ensure it never happens via the tolerance of behaviour economics and psychology being used in marketing, the tolerance of big corporate lobbyists, the corruption of science via corporate backed "studies" whose results align with the initial desires, etc.
The only consolation being that our unmitigated greed will likely destroy us long before we have the chance to infest the stars with it, and that life will go on without us.
We can look the squalor of factory-farmed animals right in the eye while biting into our ham sandwich and say "damn, someone should really do something about that." Or, perhaps more commonly, "I'm entitled to this, actually."
So why would we budge over a little forced labor on the other side of the world? Or pollution? Or anything else?
We care about things right up to the point where we have to lift a finger. Though, aside, for this reason I think legislation is one of the only solutions short of waiting for a cultural awakening that probably won't ever come.