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I think you're underestimating how carefully Apple chooses it's words when it's crafting these one-line public statements. When they use an ambiguously charged
by Fricken 10y ago
I think you're underestimating how carefully Apple chooses it's words when it's crafting these one-line public statements. When they use an ambiguously charged word like 'Mecca', they have carefully worked through every possible sub-text that might be associated with it, and if they use the word, then they are intentional about having those subtexts be associated with their statements.
They could have said that 'right to repair legislation will turn Nebraska into a hub for Hackers', but that's not what they said.
- indlebe 10y ago>When they use an ambiguously charged word like 'Mecca' I don't believe mecca is an ambiguously charged word, nor do I see any evidence to support this claim. It's probably the most commonly used metaphor for a gathering place of like-minded individuals, and was the perfect choice in this context.
- db48x 10y agoCircular reasoning.
- vacri 10y ago> "we would become the mecca for bad actors," Brasch, who is sponsoring the bill, told me in a phone call." We're in trouble when carefully manufactured 'one-line public statements' come from a philosophical opponent via a phone call to a journalist. Where is Apple itself publicly making this statement? All references in the article are second-hand.
- hogrammer 10y agoYou don't carefully choose your words. If you did you wouldn't have spelled "its" wrong for "its words."