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Exactly. No one is ditching their iPhone. It’s all about the blue text bubbles. If Americans would just switch to WhatsApp or something else like the rest of the world we could get past the Android stigma.


Is the labor used to make an iPhone and different than any other phone? Or any other electronics for that matter?

As far as I know, unless you stop consuming electronics completely, you’re not avoiding the labor abuses mining the necessary metals in Central Africa or the labor to manufacture it in Asia.


There is e.g. Fairphone


If that's what people care about, then humanity deserves what is coming to it.


What's coming? A hedonic exploitation of poor and oppressed humans? The global rich are largely happy to get that.


WhatsApp is terrible and insecure. Facebook already knows too much about me.


So why not Signal? Telegram? Slack? Discord if thats your thing. Or even Email?

I mean we do have plenty of choice, many actually caring about security and their users.


Telegram, Slack, and Discord are also awful for privacy FWIW.




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