Comment by latentsea
1 month ago
It's a bit of a pipedream tbh. I have a pixel and grapheneOS, but the reality of what you need to give up or how much you have to inconvenience yourself makes it unpalatable enough that unless you're life is actually in danger or you have some very extremely tightly held philosophy you refuse to let go of at all costs, then you just wind up compromising to the point where it doesn't necessarily feel worth the trouble.
it really depends on how much you've embraced the tech.
say, my parents own phones but don't do much on them except navigation, photos, messaging, and web browsing. if you're not into Uber, Doordash, mobile banking, and so on, then you're not really giving up much by switching to the alternatives.
generally, it's harder to _remove_ something from your life than it is to forego _adding_ it. if you're content with the functionality of your tech as it exists today, then a feasible route to de-apple/de-google really is to just not start doing too much _new_ with it, and within some number of years you'll find the alternatives have developed to the point where you can switch to them without going backward.