I currently use an iPhone, but given the recent attacks made by the US president and members of his administration on my country (tariffs, annexation threats,etc) I am loathe to support any company based out of that nation any longer. Obviously I know that it is likely impossible to get a functional mobile experience with zero US corporate involvement, but what is the least possible I could do and still be practical? A degoogled fair phone device? Something Chinese running a custom rom like lineage os?
I want to sell my iPhone and Apple Watch ASAP and get something that won’t have my sending money to the US via my app purchases (store cut), monthly services (iCloud), and my data being used/sold.
Thanks!
You already own it. You aren’t doing Apple any favors by continuing to own it and you’re not hurting them by getting rid of it.
False. You are hurting them by not providing them a recurring revenue and stream of your data.
What “recurring revenue stream” are you referring to? And what data?
OP mentioned store or inapp purchases plus cloud subscription.
And ALL data, noone knows what apple is doing with it.
I mean they could simply…stop doing that?
I assume nothing until proven otherwise, considering we know for a fact that any other device is going to be sending a plethora of data for Google to monetize.
Another comment mentioned GrapheneOS.
Even Graphene is nigh-unusable without Google services.
I use GrapheneOS without Google services and the only issue I have to work around is Slack notifications. Everything else is fantastic.