I have a Nokia 3210.

I totally get why people would say and believe this. Products feel good, looks fantastic, marketing is great, have a cult around. Indeed comfy and safe feeling. I wanted to jump on this wagon but never had enough money to do so. Never found a cheaper but as luxury feeling from any brand-environment...

you are a corporate pawn

GOS is going to shit. Any criticism about them and they go thermonuclear and claim harassment. It's pretty embarrassing. Plus they also use blobs, so it's not fully open source as people like to claim. If using Apple products is within your threat model, then so be it 🤙

I worked at Apple 20 years ago. 25% employee discount was nice. So I had a lot of it myself. Then the walled garden got more and more obnoxious and I got tried of Big Tech a la Snowden privacy hit as well. As a developer being told what I could do on my own machine and that I had to pay more App...

So, I get that Android has its own issues which make it a bit of a toss up in many ways (at least, if you're not gonna get out there on the Graphene train, and deal with the fact that you're handling more yourself), but does it not occur to you that the way Apple keeps you safe isn't that unlike how...

Apple is a beautiful walled garden, just like the garden from the movie Zone of Interest 🫠