> you're the fool for buying their hardware if you disagree
Boycotts only work at scale, plus there is little competition for Apple tablets.
Google Pixel Tablet is far behind Apple iPad on OS usability, basic capability like a wired hardware keyboard, and mobile app quality. Qualcomm's Oryon/SDXE platform remains far from their Linux aspirations, even with help from Linaro. Windows is increasingly focused on being a cloud client.
I use GrapheneOS on Pixel phone/tablet in parallel with Apple phone/tablet/laptop, in addition to Linux on x86 and Arm devices, with ongoing dev work to implement some Apple-equivalent functionality in non-Apple ecosystems. Ecosystem network effects means that each platform has strengths and weaknesses, for specific use cases, adding operational cost of 2X devices with data sync overhead.
Linux roadmaps are now funded and entangled with the commercial goals of large companies like IBM, Google and Microsoft. The decline of commercial operating systems is not the same as the improvement of FOSS, which continues steadily but slowly at the grassroots level. Customers need to _both_ invest in FOSS and lobby regulators/vendors to improve commercial software.
Boycotts only work at scale, plus there is little competition for Apple tablets.
Google Pixel Tablet is far behind Apple iPad on OS usability, basic capability like a wired hardware keyboard, and mobile app quality. Qualcomm's Oryon/SDXE platform remains far from their Linux aspirations, even with help from Linaro. Windows is increasingly focused on being a cloud client.