[moepstar]

My journey is quite similar, although I haven’t migrated (back) to Linux and not away from iPhone yet.

Do you have a writeup of that, somewhere? How do you manage without device interoperability (i.e. copy and paste between Mac and iPhone)?

[fmajid]

It's still work-in-progress: https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/

You can copy-paste using LocalSend. Not as seamless, but it does work, including with Apple devices.

[seec]

Honestly, it is so infrequently needed that just having a synced note app is good enough for the few times you need it.

Apple has been focusing way too much on gimmicks like that and they don't have that much value.

[moepstar]

I kinda agree in the way that having synced notes (a good feature in itself, also available on iPhone/Mac) would probably suffice.

Still, being able to copy and paste not only text but also images between devices seamlessly is really nice, not to mention i can open an open browser-tab (Safari, iOS) in Brave on the Mac by just clicking the icon that has a "mobile device icon" next to it and it opens the same tab on the Mac...

And yes - as i said - i agree that having a synced note app would probably enable the same usecases, but with distinctly more friction (at least in my books).

[seec]

I definitely agree that it's nice but not useful enough that you could consider it a required feature. The point I'm trying to make is that Apple markets it as something that is essential and much better than what is out there, when it's really not the case.

The truth is that this is perfectly possible to do on other platforms; you just have to set it up. But most people don't since this is not needed often enough to be worth the hassle, or they just don't use computers that much. And the only reason it has to be provided by Apple is because they lock everything down.

Windows has had Clipboard Sync for a while with "Link to Windows," and there are many third-party solutions, from KDE Connect to third-party keyboards offering clipboard sharing. Nobody really cares, and in a world where you have to use the cloud to get stuff in and out of devices, it doesn't even matter. Chances are, the stuff you are trying to copy is also available on the computer.

Apple would have a lot more to stand on if they didn't go full retard with the cloud as well in order to increase service revenue. Those kinds of Apple technologies would make a lot more sense and have a lot more value if they didn't require using their cloud offering anyway. I wish Apple would go back to making personal computers with software that stands on its own and can work independently of any cloud. But they have been unable, or more likely unwilling, to figure out proper local syncing without going through their cloud, so the marketing is largely moot.

We end up with the worst combination possible: expensive hardware storage to promote cloud subscription and expensive cloud storage with weak interoperability/capacities (sharing with iCloud is a joke).

For this reason, I'm unwilling to consider any gimmicky "Continuity" feature as something inherently valuable.

[fmajid]

I did set up Joplin, and I also have Wiki,js.