Vratislav Holub Apple has several interesting products in its offer that enjoy worldwide popularity. Of course, the main devices include, for example, the iPhone and AirPods, but the Apple Watch, iPads, Macs and others are not doing badly either. However, what is perhaps the best about them is their interconnection within the apple ecosystem, where the devices understand each other perfectly and are well connected with each other thanks to iCloud. This is something that the Cupertino giant is partly building on.
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Pavel Jelic A great example is, for example, the connection between the iPhone and the Apple Watch, which can replace the Apple phone in many ways and ensure that the Apple user does not have to take his smartphone out of his pocket at all. AirPods fit in well too. They can instantly switch between other Apple products (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV). Then here we still have a number of great functions to make use more pleasant, in which AirDrop, for example, serves for lightning-fast wireless file transfer between Apple products, clearly reigns supreme. But it also has its dark side.
Apple growers are locked into their own ecosystem
Although Apple products, as we already mentioned above, work great together and can make their use significantly more pleasant by the way they work as a whole, they also have one major drawback. This specifically lies in the entire apple ecosystem, which tends to more or less lock its users and make it impossible for them to go to other platforms. In this regard, the Cupertino giant does it quite smartly and discreetly. As soon as the apple user "collects" more Apple devices and really starts to benefit from the mentioned benefits, then it is significantly more difficult for him to leave than if he only had an iPhone, for example.
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A considerable problem can also be in the transfer of passwords. If you've been using Keychain on iCloud for years, then the transition can be a bit more difficult, because you obviously can't move elsewhere so easily without passwords. Fortunately, this ailment can be partially solved by exporting passwords from Safari. You won't get your own records or secure notes though. But that's probably the smallest thing in the final.
Additionally, locking out users on the platform carries its own label – walled garden – or a garden surrounded by a wall, which, moreover, does not necessarily apply only to apple growers. In addition, the vast majority of them are aware of this phenomenon and remain on apple platforms for a simple reason. They thus have something at their disposal that they are not willing to sacrifice. In this regard, it can be, for example, Macs with Apple Silicon, AirDrop, iCloud, FaceTime/iMessage and other exclusive goodies. In addition, some are willing to partially sacrifice themselves in this way for security and privacy, which the competition cannot offer them, for example. Simply put, the saying that every coin has two sides applies in this regard.
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Adam Kos Leaving the ecosystem
As we mentioned above, leaving the ecosystem is not unrealistic, it just might require patience for some. Even so, according to some, it is good not to rely on only one authority in some respects and rather to divide individual tasks among several "services". After all, this is precisely why even among Apple users there are many users who, for example, do not use the aforementioned Keychain on iCloud, even though it is available completely free of charge. Instead, they can reach for alternative password managers like 1Password or LastPass. In this way, they ensure that their passwords, card numbers and other confidential information are not locked in the Apple ecosystem and can be moved elsewhere at any time.
I don't know many people who change Apple as soon as they smell it. I quote: "security and privacy that the competition can't offer them, for example", that's the main advantage, it's not a single sacrifice during the whole time that we've been using Apple as a family.
Biting into an apple is a gradual process, I don't know anyone who swallows it all at once. I buy the first device and since I am satisfied and see the potential of the ecosystem, I go to the next one...and then I change everything. Gradually, as I get rid of other devices, I buy Apple products. Because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me anymore. Image plays no role in this. However, as I gradually switched to a platform with all devices, I can't imagine a gradual exit. Although I kept the backdoor with Enpass, but... Well, I don't see it. And above all, I don't know why I would do it.
…and why would I want to leave?
There are very few things about the apple system that are worth criticizing, and not much worth mentioning. :)
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