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Why don’t you like Apple? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by Betawhat@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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[–] improbablypoopingrn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I keep hearing how painful it is to get out. Can someone please elaborate on this?

I am not super tech savvy and was DEEP in the ecosystem but didn't think it was hard by any stretch.

I migrated my data, purged my files, canceled my subscriptions in a few taps/clicks, sold our imacs, MacBook pros, homepods and iPhones and moved on with my life and haven't looked back since. Took maybe an afternoon for the data piece and a few other after-the-fact logins to cancel things I forgot about. This is legit the 4th time in two days I've read this comment so I am just genuinely curious!

[–] ji17br@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

For me the biggest thing would be apps. No way I’d want to re-buy all my apps on the play store.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago

If you have terabytes of data in iCloud, use their mail, contacts, photos, everything? Plus decades of purchased content, expensive devices losing functionality by dropping the iPhone… you have to basically replace everything with something else and it’s tedious especially for a less techy person. This is the reason walled gardens are anti consumer.