I think you should reread what I said, I don’t think your response makes sense vs my statement.

Sounds like that fight was lost 100 years ago.

Eh, NY has the Yankees sports team but they are not part of New England and I’d say a good portion of the country would say NY has no Yankees in it besides the team.

Given that you’re the native, you should gently explain to the colonial that they are the ones who are wrong.

I mean apple has spent at least the last decade using iMessage as a way to bring people into the platform and keep them there. Ie the articles from a few years back about using it to manipulate teenager behavior a la Instagram, or the epic games discovery documents which indicated this was a deliberate and cruel strategy from apple to lock ignorant people into their platform to avoid losing their social network.

Tldr: they deliberately try to make people lose friends if they leave the platform. You might say “shit friends” and I’d agree, but this is the FUD that apple spreads.

I think you overestimate the value of those first two years.

Your definition of freedom is an interesting one