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I will still help my friends install Mac OS on their computer if that's what they need, or even help them get a good deal on a Mac if I can. I'm not trying to c
by macawfish 10y ago
I will still help my friends install Mac OS on their computer if that's what they need, or even help them get a good deal on a Mac if I can. I'm not trying to convert people to my way of life, but I do share what I know and value to anyone willing. Until recently I suggested Apple products to people as being easy to use for non techie people. I don't do this anymore because of how Apple has been abusing it's power, e.g. deleting people's music, imposing their cloud services, their development tools, censoring GPL libraries from their store, paying artists crap... At some point enough is enough. It's perfectly valid for me to feel anger towards what is essentially a techno-religious organisation gone corrupt. I'm angry and sad at the corruption of any party or religion. Having values, feeling passionately about things, these don't make me partisan, it means I'm alive, my heart is beating and my soul is kicking.
I don't "hate Apple" because I'm partisan, I'm frustrated more generally at a whole bundle of abuses and orthodoxies of the religion of mass marketing, and to put it bluntly am frightened about the perpetuation of ignorance, put forth for short term profit, suffocating the grass roots of human knowledge as we speed blindly into an era of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and genetically modified organisms.