Maybe Apple will have their Balmer moment but, as much as I would like to see that, I don’t expect it any time soon.

I agree, but years ago most of us would have said something similar when asked to carry around a device that will track your position everywhere you go. Now we all do that, because smartphones are just so convenient.

Now this is the kind of ‘news’ I’d like to see posted on hackernews just to read their techbro shit takes.

I use a Nextcloud app called Memories for my photos. I don’t know if it is one par with Google Photos but it’s good enough for me. There are a few providers that offer managed Nextcloud servers, personally I use the one by Hetzner.

What do you mean by lack of security features? Fairphone promises 5 Android version upgrades and security updates for at least 8 years.