5d ago

I cant wait to remove all the american products from my life!

The alternatives to Intel/AMD/Nvidia, Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Discover and IOS/Android need to be more developed.

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I picked Apple to be the one tech company that gets to stick around for now. I canceled my Apple One bundle but there’s still a dependency on maps and mobile OS. Will only buy used and when necessary going forward. My phone is 2.5 years old and I think I will be able to get at least another 2.5 years out of it.
- "will only buy used and when necessary going forward"
  You didn't do that already?
  
  Nope, would get a new phone every 2ish years. Now I’ll just replace the battery and hopefully be able to hold on to a phone for 7-8 years.
- Apple isn’t as private as you think, they donated 1m to Trumps inauguration, the black representation is at 7% well below the 12.4% portion of the US demographics, their hardware is not very repairable, the manufacturer Foxconn that Apple uses has many cases of worker abuse, ios is very locked down.
  
  Not to specifically defend Apple, but the race demographic issue is slightly more complicated.
  The inequality is more systemic. Educational investment and economic inequality means that there's a difference in educational outcomes for the black population in the US.
  Basically, to have representation in line with the population Apple needs to make a deliberate effort to hire in that proportion. Having an unbiased hiring process falls back to the systemic bias that shifted the hiring pool. That 7% is basically the representation of black people in the hiring pool for high tech jobs in the US.
  There are still major issues with tech companies and diversity, such as not addressing the issues that created an environment that pushed people out of the sector, but that 5% difference represents a naively unbiased process, as opposed to a specifically biased one.
  
  Oh I know. I’m not a big fan. Struggling finding a google enough Apple/Google map alternative or a non iOS/Android alternative. Picked Apple as the better of the two evils but not giving them money anymore.
  
  You can use Organic Maps/Magic Earth/OsmAnd instead of Apple/Google Maps.
  For your operating systems you have: iOS < Graphene OS/ Ubuntu Touch/ Mobian/Sailfish/ Postmarket OS.
  
  But what does any of this including repairs, have to do with privacy?
  I mean it as a list of bullet points, I have reviewed all the Apple apps and they collect a lot of data.
- I cancelled my Apple 1 account as well, I guess I still have a lot of data on their cloud stuff as I got billed for the 50gb plan it was a little over $1 not happy about it but I need to figure out what is up with that.

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