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> Their technologies are extremely useful for the tasks and pleasures that require shallower forms of consciousness, but they often crowd out and destroy the de
by markbnj 9y ago
> Their technologies are extremely useful for the tasks and pleasures that require shallower forms of consciousness, but they often crowd out and destroy the deeper forms of consciousness people need to thrive.
Boy that's a hell of a label to stick on all the technology produced by Google, Facebook and Apple. How do you even get all three of those companies into one bucket without just making it a stupidly big bucket? One is a search and advertising company with a bunch of side business, another is an innovative hardware company with a bunch of side businesses, and the third is an addictive social network. They're all "tech" and they're destroying our deeper consciousness? Ok.
- confounded 9y agoAny specific counter-arguments? I work for one of them, and it sounds about right to me.
- otalp 9y agoApple doesn't care too much about how long you use an iPhone everyday as long as you buy one every year or so. Facebook and Google's entire business model relies on you spending a lot of time on their services. It's inaccurate to put them in the same bucket.
- chickenfries 9y agoApple cares very much what kind of software you run on your iPhone. Also, Apple news is a competitor to google and the web. You don’t deny that google and Facebook are both similar and are basically media companies themselves. Seems like you’re getting hung up on a relatively minor detail.
- confounded 9y agoIt’s true that unlike Facebook and Google, Apple is primarily a B2C company. However, aside from their own dark-UI patterns and walled garden strategy, Facebook and Google provide the killer apps for Apple’s highest margin product. And Apple absolutely do care about engagement on the iPhone; it’s highly predictive of buying a new one every year.