Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻<p>New: <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DeAppleification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeAppleification</span></a> project 🍏</p><p>Good hardware, if overpriced ✔️</p><p>Bad software &amp; services, deliberately lacking <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interoperability</span></a> ❌ </p><p>Today, I shut off Apple's closed <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/iMessage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iMessage</span></a> service entirely. Now using <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Beeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beeper</span></a> as a universal inbox, with <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a>, <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Slack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slack</span></a> DMs ✅ </p><p>Goal: shutting off all 🍏 services will make it much easier to switch to cheaper hardware in future. Which is why Apple’s entire business model depends on tying their hardware to their software &amp; services</p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/RefusalToSupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RefusalToSupply</span></a></p>