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In reality, companies aren’t afraid of making anti-consumer products

Because people will still eat the shit thrown in front of them. Why bother with good products when the doofus buys it anyways?

What do they do when Google makes some restrictive bullshit change again, for example to the android API? Fork it and become incompatible with apps meant for stock android?

Well, yes, that would most likely be the result. Even now, some apps aren't working - the commerzbank banking app, for example, didn't work on graphene (because of play protect tho, not incompatibility). I was emailing them, asking if they planned to change it, they said "nah fam sorry no time" so I was switching to revolut. Recently, revolut made some steps into that aswell and I'm more than ready to switch again, but it seems like they didn't pull through with their plans.

Again - rejecting somethign for moral reasons is never easy or comfortable.

When the non-hostile options are gone, or reduced to a few crappy ones, the educated consumer is fucked.

Yes, but that never happens. If there is no good option left, there will be another company filling the gap. Just look at what happened with lego - nobody was bothering creating a competition for them, they were the defacto standard if you wanted ... well, lego. However, they because more expensive and worse and suddenly we have blue bricks and cobi, both much cheaper at a higher quality.

I know people on lemmy don't want to hear it, but the free market works. It actually works extremely well. The only time when it does NOT work if there's too much government interference so building a competition is too hard or when there is no choice on the side of the consumer, which is only really the case for crucial things like housing, food, healthcare etc.

I already wrote it somewhere, but people can't choose to "not eat". They can damn well choose to not buy a device from a company that is known to be anti-consumer.