Remember this in 10 years or so when Apple will do things you won't like and you'll have no way out.
I've bookmarked your comment to have it handy in a few years when people are gonna start complaining once Apple acts against their interests.
Remember, you (plural) voluntarily asked for this. "Lock me down Apple, I love it."
I’ll be interested to return to this conversation in 10 years because as a priviledged, not-politically-radical (or at least not activist) person my hunch is that apple will still be a reasonable home for me. What I worry about is that it won’t be so comfortable for people who want to protest, or are in the margins in some other way.
I do care about this and would love another solution that worked.
Similarly I’d love not to use WhatsApp/fb and avoid as far as I can, but I want to play tennis or meet friends for bike rides and there is just no way of avoiding it right now without making substantial personal sacrifices.
I think the only solution long term is more regulation of large tech companies so that they act in the common good. That’s a hard problem though.
I don’t care that random developers have to workaround annoying restrictions and pay 30% to apple because it means it does just work and I don’t have to think — no one is trying to persuade me to do anything non Standard because there is no wiggle room. That’s a good thing.
But it is a risk — I don’t like what apple is doing in China, and we are not that far away from that in the us and uk. If apple does start behaving poorly here I will be SOOL.