Our smartphones, operating systems and apps are dominated by Google & Apple. “[…] these two Silicon Valley profit-driven companies decide which apps are or aren’t allowed, and moderate what our mobile software looks like.” says @danlammerhirt from @waag working on the Mobifree project (together with a.o. @efoundation @fdroid @nlnetlabs @murena @microg @delta
https://waag.org/en/article/why-smartphones-are-key-better-internet/
Just admit your part of a cult and you will have the first step to recovery.
And I did pick my position damn near 20 years ago at this point. I had a couple of old school ipods but my first “smart phone” was a blackberry, my second was also a blackberry and then I moved to android with a phone sized tablet that only had wifi and they nexus after that. I’ve flashed more roms, backed up and restored more data, etc than you have had friends.
You have a nice day now and I will add you to the block list as well.
Well, this is a mature reply. Have a good one.