It turns out in practice I don't make much use of the extra freedoms that Android allows, certainly not to the point that it justifies buying worse hardware
If Apple was so good that men voluntarily gave them 90% market share you’d call them a monopoly, though it was freely given. Now if they acted immorally, they ought to be reprimanded, but you demanding freedom by coercion is immoral.
They are acting immorally by restricting what users can do with devices they own. They are using their market power to coerce users into using their services.
The rules were made by representatives voluntarily elected by the people and are an expression of their free will.
So I should be settled with inferior hardware, and huge privacy violations? Because the only way out from the latter is GrapheneOS on the Pixel, which is definitely not as great hardware-wise as the last few iphones, and then we didn’t even get to other properties like proper second-hand market and support.
>So I should be settled with inferior hardware, and huge privacy violations?
Of course not! You can bring the "huge privacy violations" to iOS, so all of us can enjoy them if we want to use Facebook, Instagram, some Google app, etc.!
