[7tsfmCAusrQ]

I would love to see a similar list for de-Apple-ing. Apple's anticompetitive and monopolistic practices with the App Store, the terrible direction MacBooks have taken, its price gouging on hardware... the list goes on. Google is saintly by comparison.

[afro88]

There's no need for a list. To de-Apple, in the context of those 3 examples, is to not buy or use Apple hardware. That's it.

Apple is saintly by comparison.

[tgvaughan]

Apologies for running slightly off topic, but there's another way to look at this. The fact that Apple services like FaceTime and iMessage are restricted to Apple hardware means that those of us who haven't bought into this ecosystem encounter a fair amount of pressure to do so. So I think Apple's "saintly" behaviour is also self-serving.

[Razengan]

> Google is saintly by comparison.

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You can avoid Apple by not using anything from Apple. Done.

That's how I lived for most of life when I still used Windows. Not one encounter with Apple. Now, I haven't used anything from Microsoft for 10 years until they bought GitHub.

But you'll always be feeding Google just by visiting completely unrelated third-party websites.

Google (like Facebook) fits most definitions of cancer, creeping into places where it doesn't belong.