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you don't hear these horror stories often, but often enough to reinforce my conviction to never ever ever fucking ever buy a single apple product
Also if you don't have your ~~date~~ data under your control, you are at the mercy of some company.
But Google or Amazon isn't better. I feel like people aren't informed enough of these cases at all.
i'm not saying non-apple platforms are "good." but they don't have the same closed-circuit ecosystem business model that apple has. apple controls all their hardware and core proprietary software, which not only limits your third party options to whatever apple chooses to allow, but now you've got the "all your eggs in one basket" issue, which, if i were that person who's been a loyal apple customer for 20+ years, having purchased tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to become deeply entrenched in this cultish...thing... only to lose it all for some stupid clerical bullshit...then, to me, yes--that's objectively worse than google or anything else--even though those other options are fucking terrible also
edit: let's not forget to mention how stupidly overpriced apple crap is, while doing absolutely nothing that other platforms can't do
I just wanted to say that switching to another big company isn't solution. And even though they do not have such huge proportion of hardware devices, many people use Google or Amazon (or similar) to sign into many services or devices like security cameras, smart locks. And this really huge problem, when one company could lock you out of everything for no real reason. It should be much more regulated.
i mean now you're talking about trusting big tech (any big tech) with things like your home cameras and door locks. which to my mind is dumb to begin with. there are cameras that record to a hard drive and don't touch the internet. and while a plain old deadbolt lock on your door isn't 100% guaranteed security, how tf does tying it to a big tech company improve...anything?
i was talking about personal computing and data storage/access solutions. which, again, apple is a no-go. for any of that
I have an apple iphone but I back my photos up with Immich and passwords with firefox, Spotify instead of Apple music, Telegram, etc and I'm essentially isolated from the Apple ecosystem, if they lock me out of my account I lose pretty much nothing except the value of the phone