Litanys
Personally, I’d prefer peertube, but federation is hard so lbry or odysee got more traction.
While Apple claims to be private there really isn’t any proof since all their software is proprietary. On top of that, on my home network where I have a ton of devices and my wife has one iPhone, Apple sure gets a LOT of calls back to home base. So I’d say they collect a ton of data. Not private. But they do not sell it as much. Since you can look at how they make their money is primarily through hardware. That being said it still isn’t the only way.
While I agree that the options aren’t always great, there is a bigger issue. We are all just too enslaved to convenience.
People right now wouldn’t be able to bear doing some of the difficult things we used to do. And the average Joe wouldn’t be caught dead using computers from 15 years ago. We have grown accustomed to our convenience. OP said what we looks for is being able to answer a call on his laptop and while I agree it’s a great feature, it’s a convenience. We can’t be bothered to pick up the phone.
The reality’s you talked about are there but another is we think we need these things, but really, it’s completely possible to live without them. We’ve just become to lazy, entitled, and rich too make the open philosophy important enough to us. So I’d ask, do you care more about your conveniences or for a more open future?
I’d highly encourage everyone to use more FOSS stuff. Think of it this way, you believe all information should be free and open, what if every technological advancement was too. How far could we go?
Right now Apple got big and bad because they made the best stuff and worked real hard to isolate themselves from everyone else so they could build a walled garden. What if your first introduction to a computer was one that started open and free? What if the brilliant minds that integrated the Apple ecosystem did it openly so everyone could enjoy it going further? Also, what if every harmful technology had been done in the open so watchdogs could tell you if some software was harmful to you?
I think the world would be far better off. You could prove things are good and bad, you wouldn’t have so much driven by greed but by the good intentions of good people.
FOSS, sometimes has all the features if you know where to look. There is an awesome Linux app called KDE connect that almost bridges the gap between phone and Linux. It can’t do calls, but that’s because unlike apple it can’t reroute them. It can do texts, send links and files back and forth, control media, run arbitrary command from your phone, and it does all that not just between phone and computer, but also computer and computer, all devices you connect to it. It’s amazing what good people with brilliant minds can do with so little. They didn’t even need millions of dollars to do it, just some creativity.
I love the philosophy and have so believed in it because there are small places where you can get a glimpse of what incredible things we’d have if we just stopped being entitled and greedy.
While I suppose you’re right, the fella up there shares some of the other real reasons. Airtags too. They can recognize me with my android because I’m around enough Apple users and their devices flag mine. Apple’s mesh network for find my iPhone is the single greatest example that they don’t truly want you to be private, at least not from them. From others yes I will agree, but not from themselves.
Please do! I’m about to get it running next week for my lunch break gaming sessions.
I didn’t even know about soap2day. I’ve been using sonarr and radarr to acquire media and then play it from jellyfin.