Jeknilah

What is this gaslighting you're trying to pull here? You're really going to pretend that Apple fanboys don't exist and instead start criticising some sort of perceived toxicity from a "hate cult" against Apple? That's before you get into some bizarre Google strawman. The reality is that these Apple fanboys with values antithetical to software freedom exist, and want walled gardens everywhere.

I don't know what to say. It's taught in a typical American economics class nowadays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXI-zPcDIM

And what do you know about Nash Equilibriums?

But it was. With Don Lemon and the Cuomo.

I saw a Youtube video a while ago on how supermarket chains create customer profiles for each credit card. That way, they can get a better understanding of purchasing habits and how consumers react to price changes. Makes finding the most profitable price easy, you see.

This answer isn't satisfying. Society, law, and morality all exist because of empathy. You can't count on empathy to solve any more problems than it already has, or promote the value of empathy where it can not stand on it's own.

Yeah. I usually go to the Playstore to buy out all the In-App purchases and support development, but this is really discouraging.

For Google photos/Contacts in particular, the gallery app was good because it would constantly ask to sync photos to the cloud.

Rip

How dangerous can it be to run an old OS anyways? Been doing it for years. Might actually be a good thing now that the forced updates are gone.