Taking a bite out of the Apple
Author's note: this piece isn't going to be a tech review. I'll be just talking about my experience. For those who know me, I have been an advocate of Android since I started using smartphones, and very naturally so, considering that the system provides multiple features including but not limited to extreme customization, an App Store with more than a million apps, a variety of flavors, and the amazing ecosystem of Google products integrated with a single Google account. However, at the onset of my fifth semester, I started looking for better practices for my life in general, and I stumbled upon the concept of de-Googlization and tried it out. De-Googlization essentially means that you try and separate Google from all factions of your life as much as possible. For instance: I switched to Firefox from Chrome started using DuckDuckGo for most searches disabled Google and Google Chrome apps on my phone to reduce the possibility that I look up something using Google, etc. I am ...