Comment by aphextron

I just totally de-Googled my life recently, and ended up almost entirely in the Apple ecosystem after evaluating my options. Switched to DDG full time for web search, Safari for browsing, iCloud for email, and Apple Maps is actually usable now with decent real time traffic. I never thought in a million years it would come to this, but the lines have clearly been drawn over the last two years. Apple has time and again come out emphatically in support of The User in a way that Google simply has not (or will not) step up to. It's quickly becoming their single largest competitive advantage in consumer web services.