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Re:Apple Just Lost Me by JKCalhoun on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:47AM (#47518972)
I hope the author reports back in a year. Getting off the Apple train appeals to me, the reality of doing so looks bleak.

Full disclosure: I've been in the Apple ecosystem since System 6, worked as an engineer there for 25 years. But I am as frustrated by many of the decisions Apple has made as many people I see posting.

Liquid glass? This too shall pass.

Locked down ecosystem? I imagine the blowback if they unlocked it and people's devices were suddenly being compromised by malware.

I guess I prefer the frying pan to the fire that I feel awaits me if I jump. As I mentioned though, seeing blog posts after the jump will be interesting.

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Re:Apple Just Lost Me by NetMageSCW on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:58PM (#47524998)
What real world improvement has owning your data made to you besides increasing the friction for a lot of things?
Re:Apple Just Lost Me by xethos on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:24PM (#47526321)
Self-hosting UnifiedPush / ntfy drops FCM / Google Play Services as a requirement, extending the usable life of my phone pretty dramatically; the better battery life I get is just a bonus. Apps drop from RAM less-frequently.

The series I'm watching doesn't drop from Netflix. Nor do I juggle which services have seasons 1-3, and 5, and have to play the subscribe'n'cancel dance to watch the full series.

I never deal with radio-edits or censored curse words in music. When I pull up an album, it will be the proper album, not the smeared or changed swear words. This exact issue is what pushed me off Google Play Music.

Re:Apple Just Lost Me by olyjohn on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:23AM (#47526614)
What real world improvement has been made by allowing your data to be mined?
Re:Apple Just Lost Me by JKCalhoun on Thursday March 26, 2026 @07:48AM (#47529311)
Keeping my photos in Apple's cloud?

Peace of mind in case my house burns down, ha ha.

Re:Apple Just Lost Me by DemiGuru on Thursday March 26, 2026 @08:04AM (#47529449)
I use offsite backups for that very scenario - From nextcloud (private) to https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage.
Re:Apple Just Lost Me by ekidd on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:00PM (#47520084)
As someone who has moved back and forth between Mac and Linux around 3 or 4 times since 1992, Linux is actually surprisingly reasonable. For laptops, I just buy from Dell, with Ubuntu preloaded, and everything works. (Dell's build quality isn't as good as Apple's, so I usually spend extra for Dell's next-day on-site service.) For workstations, it's usually pretty straightforward to get something that Just Works.

After that, I've got Chrome, Visual Studio Code, Steam and a full suite of command-line tools, which covers my personal essentials. But if you rely heavily on something like Photoshop or the MacOS X Omnifocus application, then you might find much larger holes on the Linux side.

As a matter of principal, I consider myself too old to troubleshoot Linux without getting paid for it. It turns out that I virtually never do that, so I'm pretty happy. Really, buying pre-loaded and fully supported Linux laptops eliminates 80% of the pain, and nearly all of the remaining 20% can be avoided by refusing to get clever.