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    13 hours ago

    There is no corporate answer.

    Edit: Hyperbole aside, here’s some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough:

    You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed.

    For phones, it sounds like you’re aware that there are no compromise-free answers today.

    But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft.

    Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled.

    Edit 2:

    Back to your original point - I don’t have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you.

    I think some exist, but they’re much lower quality, because there’s a mich smaller community around them.

    Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have.

    So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller.