Post #224953
2026-02-01 13:50 UTC
Replies (24)
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@kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io 2026-02-02 14:08
It's now on the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856133
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@kevinrenskers@hachyderm.io 2026-02-04 12:05
Yesterday was kind of a crazy day. Lots of likes, boosts, comments, and lots and lots of views: 2658 unique visitors in a day is a lot for my humble site 😅
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@dgriffinjones@tech.lgbt 2026-02-02 22:04
@kevinrenskers > Apple won’t earn another cent from me for hardware. If one of your existing products bit the dust, would you consider replacing it second-hand through eBay? Technically, Apple wouldn’t get any money. How would you weigh that, morally?
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@danielsaidi@mastodon.social 2026-02-02 22:41
@kevinrenskers Thank you for your great text! I feel exactly like you explain and have suffered under Tim Apple for so long. This text from February last year is subpar to yours, but share the same sentiment. I have reduced my spending on Apple hardware to the bare minimum, and while I will still buy what I truly need, I will not do so happily. That’s something I share with most US big tech companies these days, but I never believed Apple would join that gang. https://danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/02/17/when-tech-giants-bow-reconsidering-my-relationship-with-us-tech
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@axel_hartmann@digitalcourage.social 2026-02-02 23:28
@kevinrenskers - I just switched my daily driver from mac to linux. I switched from Windows to Mac when the Mac mini first came out. Mine was the first one sold in Germany (out of a first-day shipment of six :-) For Messages, consider Signal. Similar integration on mobile and desktop: text, call, and video. My big hurdle was Photos. Digikam works for me now. Still, some things don't work, yet. Bit once I figure it out, they will. I've felt for years that macs have been deteriorating ever faster, with no solution in sight. Feels good now.
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@qgustavor@urusai.social 2026-02-03 00:38
@kevinrenskers Great, I was considering Apple after trying my company's Mac Mini. :gchemoji02clown:
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@kevinashworth@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 02:36
@kevinrenskers I used to think Tim had character.
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@tux0r@layer8.space 2026-02-03 03:28
@kevinrenskers They still don't unlock iPhones for the government. But please, by all means, enjoy your next U.S. ecosystem.
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@fish3rman@social.fischbyte.de 2026-02-03 03:57
@kevinrenskers so true in every aspect. …
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@virkon42@det.social 2026-02-03 04:05
@kevinrenskers After reading this it seems save to assume, that Tim Cook is genuinely afraid.
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@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop 2026-02-03 06:59
@kevinrenskers Is there a rose gold version available?
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@beno@aus.social 2026-02-03 07:52
@kevinrenskers hey GrapheneOS has Android Auto and there is a list of banking apps around the world that work with it! I have been feeling the same around Apple and other products as well. I feel like if I cut any more out of my life I’ll have nothing at all.
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@dain@hachyderm.io 2026-02-03 09:26
@kevinrenskers I think the conclusion is great, the only way to escape enshittified big tech services is to keep trying and incrementally migrating to self hosted or even just more honest smaller providers, but it's definitely way too daunting to try to do in one fell swoop and destined to fail. Progress beats perfection!
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@olokolo@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 11:34
@kevinrenskers I developed a bad feeling towards Apple few years ago, although I used to praise them. Now it got much worse than I imagined. What is in store for Apple users? Glad I am not one of them anymore.
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@uneerie@chaos.social 2026-02-03 11:41
@kevinrenskers thank you.
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@LaOroBob@troet.cafe 2026-02-03 13:19
@kevinrenskers Thanks for this insight. As an Apple user since 1992, I really started to feel uneasy only when Tahoe arrived. Before that, while I noticed the embarrassing behaviour of Tim Apple, I thought it wouldn’t affect the product. But now, there is no denying any more. And for the first time I start to feel the dilemma since I need the stuff to work and there is no viable alternative (and no, for my needs, Linux is not there yet).
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@Holtisan@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 13:54
@kevinrenskers This blog posts hits home, man. I was aware of some stuff, but there is more perspective in there. I switched my desktop OS to Linux already, @nextcloud & @homeassistant are my next projects on the list. Not using any Meta or X or Google stuff. My iPad lays dormant in some box, not using it at all. For the iPhone, I am not sure. It’s my absolute daily driver. I have hardened it in terms of privacy & data collection.
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@ladyailuros@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 15:38
@kevinrenskers Oh yeah if we hooked a turbine up to Jobs’ corpse we could power entire cities he’s spinning so hard in his grave.
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@tael@yiff.life 2026-02-03 16:49
@kevinrenskers I'm more sympathetic to this take https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116005751401481582
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@davew@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 18:24
@kevinrenskers apple is a company, very good at selling itself as a lifestyle. but there's only one person, who's been gone for 15 years, who could keep that reality distortion field inflated. we didn't see it directly in the US but imagine the compromises they had to make to be so in bed with the chinese government? the US isn't that far gone yet but we're getting there. the story is very old, the diff is that people just don't like to see it on their tv. ;-)
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@thibautsailly@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 18:52
@kevinrenskers @brentsimmons Your disappointment is understandable, but also feels a bit naive—it may sound condescending, sorry—of Apple’s operations. They were able to become the company you loved by manufacturing most of their products in China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China). I don’t think anyone lost his or her soul this year more than they did 30 years ago, it has just become more obvious, closer to home. The best thing to do is to get rid of dictators or aspiring ones. Business will adapt. 💪
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@michael@social.nozbe.com 2026-02-03 21:20
@kevinrenskers @brentsimmons great write-up. Feel the same over here: https://michael.team/cooked/
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@brad@toot.chez.gay 2026-02-03 23:04
@kevinrenskers This post echoes my own feelings exactly. As a longtime Apple customer and an ex-Apple employee I am utterly disgusted by Tim Cook's actions and Apple's recent treatment of developers. I refuse to give Apple another penny. I stopped using any Apple services (iCloud, Music etc) as soon as I could after Tim Cook's donation, and I switched to an Android phone when it was time to upgrade after using nothing but iPhones since the 3GS. I know Google are as bad/worse, but I didn't expect any better from them. I thought Apple's values aligned with my own. If that was ever really the case, it's definitely not any more.
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@kevinashworth@mastodon.social 2026-02-04 01:57
@kevinrenskers Have canceled AppleOne today. Thanks for the motivation! Yes, I could have / should have done so before now, but I hope Tim Cook knows I'm canceling because of Tim Cook.