Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 months agoWhat industry? Does this industry you mentioned happens only contains data hungry ad oligopolies like google amazon, but not all the reasonable alternatives like duckduckgo, grapheneos, calyxos, desktop linux, mastodon, and lemmy?
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The consumer personal computer industry.
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I got a feeling that many consumers do use desktop linux, given he recently revealed 4% desktop market share across the world. macOS has 15% market share, and Windows at the dominant 72%.
I believe macOS probably is more private than Windows, but it is definitely not as private as the rest of the market.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sure, open source will always have the potential for the most privacy, assuming the user is savvy enough to maintain security. The article was primarily focused on Apple’s hold of the smartphone market. In the US, the only real competition is Android. Google is transparent about their consumer data use, and they also don’t offer much in the form of personal information privacy outside of encrypted RCS. For example, third-party apps can access user data and enable hardware APIs without first requiring user permission.
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Okay, I mentioned desktop because you mentioned “personal computer industry” which I assumed means desktop/laptops.
I think there are indeed more private (some can even be more secure) alternative to iOS, like calyx and/or graphene.
But like you said, they do require a reasonable amount of computing literacy to install: first they need to know these projects exists, then they will need to connect their phone to their computer and click a single button.
Thus, I think there is indeed no private and “popular” alternative to iOS, that a completely tech illiterate person can easily obtain.