| The recent 180 with Google Photos was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I've seen them abandon products in the past, and have always been wary about their use of my data, albeit never enough to make the effort to use another service or pay for one. This was such a bold reversal of their promise to offer free photo storage "forever" that I felt like it's only a matter of time before I get seriously impacted in other ways. So I switched up everything: - Google Photos -> Apple Photos (and local backups) - Google Maps -> Apple Maps (luckily recent improvements have made it usable for my region) - Gmail -> Fastmail - Google Search -> Duck Duck Go (still relying on !g for most programming related searches) - Google Chomre -> Safari (switched a year ago) On the plus side, it feels good moving away from Google and not giving them my data. On the downside I'm now paying for services that I had for free, and in some ways getting more tied to Apple. |