That's not how that works at all. You can buy something you need because you need it and that's not at all a vote saying you like the management of how it was produced.
It’s a vote whether you claim it is or not. If you need something but don’t want to support the company, buy it from someone else. And if you can’t find a company that you want to support, then you’ll see it’s just like real politics. You don’t get to only vote for the parts of a candidate you like, you vote for the whole package.
>then you’ll see it’s just like real politics. You don’t get to only vote for the parts of a candidate you like, you vote for the whole package.
Well, that's the problem with politics as well, and the reason that modern democracy is a sham (compared to ancient Athenian direct democracy [1]).
[1] obviously for those it included at the time. After all, modern democracy didn't include slaves, women, and even poor white folks (the extension of voting rights to non-property-owning white men happened in 1828, and it was hampered in the South until the early 20th century) until well into the 20th century.
> It’s a vote whether you claim it is or not. If you need something but don’t want to support the company, buy it from someone else.
Again, that's not how that works at all. I can name hundreds of items that I've purchased in the past year where there aren't meaningful competitors. I can name dozens of contracts I've entered into where management changed after the contract was signed (sometimes years afterward). Of course then I'm screwed because I'm still stuck in that contract.
If only there was a viable competitor phone. The choice is iPhone or some flavour of Android. Even if Android had E2E encrypted backups, it leaks is so many other unpleasant ways that it's not even a choice.
For me it's a vote for less tracking, or at least less invasion. It's not saying it's perfect or even close. There's a ton of things I'd change on iOS if I could.
So yeah, I 'vote' Apple because the alternative is a dumb feature phone.
They do. Including an independent third-party security audit.
> it leaks is so many other unpleasant ways
I recall Android security used to lag behind Apple at the device level, but I'm not sure that's still true with current hardware and OS. Could you educate us on the current state of Android data leaks?
For me, my device should have full-disk encryption, sandboxed apps and fine-grained control over app permissions. Both iPhone and Android have that.
Intentionally leaving iCloud insecure in the absence of legal compulsion is a sneaky evasion of all the much-ballyhooed device-level security.
