So much ripe fruit just sitting there that the decision to wander away and do their own thing would still have been objectively crazy even if they had fully succeeded. It just would have been an objectively crazy decision that they managed to succeed despite making.
Do it like china does with iphones. Apple sells them but icloud in china is controlled fully by a chinese company owned and operated by chinese citizens.
While this does not fully prevent backdoors and hacking it does raise the bar quite a lot.
I still use my 2015 macbook air (purchased in 2015) as a secondary computer. I installed linux on it last year as it was not getting software updates anymore.
Other than one of the USB ports being a bit flaky it works perfectly fine.
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