>>My personal advice regarding Apple products: avoid them entirely. Apple is far too big a corporation. An estimated $200 billion cash on hand next year. Market capitalization exceeding $600 billion already this year. Such power in one place is dangerous in the extreme.
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>That decision is of course your choice. I will only observe that, made for that reason, it is a value judgment, not a technical decision.

It assuredly is technical, just not in the way you're thinking.

If you consider that having so much power in one place, and factor in the history of Apple and their lock downs, for example, of trying desperately to keep all free software design tools even (compilers, etc.) off the iPhone completely, third party apps out that are not "approved" by Apple, then it becomes a matter of technical consideration over time.

If we're talking strictly an issue of communication, then again there are technical decisions at work, and these apply because on Apple products you are entirely limited as to what data you can send / receive over non-WiFi networks.

Apple is a bad decision all the way around for anyone who likes freedom, wants to maintain that freedom in the future. But, if you only like using a tool the way it's been handed to you, and with the features that are allowed by its "owners" in Cupertino, then it can be great. Many people use it ... but they're not using a free tool, only a tool. And there is a disctinction.

There is a valid reason to choose freedom in devices. Having that much power in one place (money, political clout) will not help people, but will only harm them. It would be better to have 50 separate companies innovating and vying for our business.

For the record, I feel the same way about Microsoft and several large corporations. They've significantly stunted innovation and growth, and to an extent where it has harmed all of mankind. My entire adult programming life since the mid-1990s has been about undoing those monopolies. In my experience, people don't care about monopolies as long as they have whizz-bang eye candy. That is the reality I've been fighting for over 15 years.