- Closed software (and hardware if we count in house arm chips?) ecosystem is bad for security and privacy
- Apple is subject to ancap US corporate law, which means they can realistically do whatever they want with your data (and it would be a bad business decision not to) with no real punishments/business expenses if they're caught
- Large number of users increases interest for state backdoors
- *BSD has mostly the same userland, is totally free, and open source
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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