• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    In Taiwan, nobody uses iMessage. It’s an app called Line and it’s basically the WeChat of Taiwan.

    So we can basically hop from Apple to Android without issues with our messages. So that’s why the % of Apple users are not inflated because of the dark patterns they are doing in the US.

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      4 months ago

      In Europe everyone uses WhatsApp and I‘d rather use iMessage than sell my soul to meta… (Which I am. And Signal and Telegram. Only using WhatsApp for work)

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        4 months ago

        Unfortunately, I don’t trust Apple either. I think Telegram or Signal might be a good option, but then again. They are just a CEO away from it being shitty.

        I wish there was a better solution that is OSS but it won’t catch on.

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          4 months ago

          I trust them a bit more than meta or google. Meta‘s main business model is selling data/ads. Apple’s main business model is selling hardware.

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            4 months ago

            I think they sell the perception of privacy. They might not sell your data, but they certainly use that data to sell to you. They only care about profits and any privacy that you think you might have is just a byproduct of that greed.

            Apple is an optics company and damn good at it too.