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Edit: Hyperbole aside, here’s some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough:
You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed.
For phones, it sounds like you’re aware that there are no compromise-free answers today.
But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft.
Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled.
Edit 2:
Back to your original point - I don’t have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you.
I think some exist, but they’re much lower quality, because there’s a mich smaller community around them.
Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have.
So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller.
So no real answer.
There is no corporate answer.
Edit: Hyperbole aside, here’s some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough:
You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed.
For phones, it sounds like you’re aware that there are no compromise-free answers today.
But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft.
Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled.
Edit 2:
Back to your original point - I don’t have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you.
I think some exist, but they’re much lower quality, because there’s a mich smaller community around them.
Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have.
So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller.