Very tired of reading what Musk says.

As a former Windows user: this is true, you can disable most of the features you don’t like. I was doing that for many Windows versions, from 98 to 10.

However it was indeed fighting an uphill battle: there was more and more BS with every update, I felt that I couldn’t trust my computer, I had to check forums in order to know what’s the newest thing to turn off.

I am happier now without Windows, even though I had to learn a few new apps.

We just don’t know if it attracts them.

And it seems like the situation in Russia is similar: Apple is the 4th most popular brand (2023, link).

Source?

Apple domintaing in … Europe

Even your map doesn’t support this claim.

Belarus is marked as a country where Apple dominates, even though this is not true: Redmi (Xiaomi) and Samsung phones are more popular there (link)

If “rooted” is a requirement, then this won’t work.

Adding capacity. Fossil fuel usage is still growing.

I was under impression that the big issue would be adoption. Like my bank supports only Google Pay and Samsung Pay, but definitely not a “FOSS Pay”.

If my phone rings, and I see an unknown number, I just decline. I’m at this level of trust.

Could you please elaborate what you mean by saying “hardware security updates”?

They’re proobably working on how to track messages on the way, like “hey, wanna use RCS? here’s our com.google.rcs library”, which by coincidence sends every message to Google.

Doesn’t work for me with or without VPN, Canada or not. Weird.