Those simple and easy devices are not simple and easy inherently.
That is a result the company paying a lot of developers and designers to anticipate your needs and fix your problems before you have them. Those companies want a return on that investment and they get it in the form of your privacy and platform-enforced dependence on their services.
This is a good takeaway from the article. If you have a problem, you need to at least try to search for a solution.
Imo that The Verge requires MacOS (or windows) for their workflow is a huge red flag for anyone who is using Linux.
Everyone there has to use the same something. Linux isn’t exactly the brand for simple easy and usable on all devices, tbf
Those simple and easy devices are not simple and easy inherently.
That is a result the company paying a lot of developers and designers to anticipate your needs and fix your problems before you have them. Those companies want a return on that investment and they get it in the form of your privacy and platform-enforced dependence on their services.