Part2 with Murena

I decided to start my journey out of GAFAM with the step: drop my iPhone and my iCloud subscription. It should be a good first step. I know that I can't leave GAFAM in a few days, it will take time. Let's describe the plan.

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1. List all apps I have to reinstall.
2. Export contacts in VCF format to migrate to new phone.
3. Copy iCloud documents to local storage.
4. Sell iPhone
5. Celebrate

1. First I thank Murena for the quick delivery: 3 days to cross Atlantic ocean, unexpected and appreciated. FYI, customs fees are 90 CAD.
2. Then, thank you to people who share apps they use on their phones. It is a solid starting point. Here is mine about the must-have ones:
   1. keepassdroid for passwords management
   2. signal for messages
   3. VLC for media player
   4. NewPipe for youtube videos

In one sentence I would say: Not a full victory, but still a good result, GO FOR IT!.

1. iPhone is out of my life and I guess the positive impact I got the fastest was to realize how expensive iPhones still are. My several-years-old iPhone has the same value as the Murena one.
2. This change was the opportunity to reduce contacts list (divided by 3) and remove useless apps.
3. Seeing blocked trackers on daily basis by the phone itself is amazing and frightening at the same time, despite the fact I tried to install apps with less trackers.
4. Realizing how much app providers may abuse on tracking people (even if we pay for the service).
5. One unexpected pleasure I got was to make stuff on my computer instead of my phone. Less apps on phone put the phone back on its definition: a great tool to contact people + a few extras (MFA, pictures…)

1. I am still using apps (from GAFAM or not) with trackers. e.g. Messenger. Migrating everyone to Signal will take time.
2. It is clear that iPhone UI is a more complete product but in a David-against-Goliath context /e/OS is clearly ready for real daily usage.
3. Switching from one smartphone to another is quite impossible without a period of transition where you use both of them. So it requires people to afford buying a new phone before selling the old one.

1. Close iCloud account: I still need to take time to check local data integrity.

I think next step will be to finish dropping Gmail for Proton. To be continued…