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Out of curiosity, why not just use Notes?

(I’m aware there are legit reasons, but I’m curious about your scenario.)



Moving off Apple's ecosystem. Their definition of privacy/surveillance falls short of "human rights" level privacy and only protects against advertisers and hackers.


Fair enough. I will point out there is no commercial entity that does better than Apple on any of these counts. Open source will only get you so far: every hardware vendor other than Apple has lower standards for labor rights and sustainability.


+1.

As sweet as their hardware and ecosystem is, an open ecosystem is better for users. I'd move off if I could get most of what I enjoy within Apple ecosystem.


Yes, lifelong MacAddict here.

Something open that beats Apple's ecosystem doesn't yet exist today. But you can help it get there by being a customer and telling companies what you want. Re-creating an E2E iCloud suite doesn't seem impossible. For example Standard Notes is close to beating Notes - but it's still too complicated but with focused work on the UI it could win.

Discussion of open source phones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208

Discussion of open source laptops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266315




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