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Well, "your ideas" contains your idea of them respecting the fact that people have different ideas and values and that they should be allowed to use their platf
by oneplane 8y ago
Well, "your ideas" contains your idea of them respecting the fact that people have different ideas and values and that they should be allowed to use their platform in ways they see fit that might differ form the stakeholders that currently decide what is and isn't allowed.
The notion that they supply hardware and software and you then decide how they are going to work for you is no longer valid for the Apple products as they are. By default, macOS is being more like iOS now, which diverges from the generic idea of the personal computer.
This problem is of course far wider than just computers and Apple, more devices, services and companies are headed this way in varying degrees.
I suppose that means you are out as a user, developer and decision maker etc. Apple probably won't care unless you take 10 million customers with you at the same time. Anything less than 1 million is probably not even going to register on their metrics, and anything less than 10 million is only marginal. This is both the problem (our problem as users) and the benefit (their benefit as a company at scale) of this broad customer base many companies now have. It's not really a globalisation thing, but more a combined globalisation+commercialism+scale thing that makes this kind of thing common.
It's not that they want to make things less attractive to certain users on purpose either, that would be counter to their purpose of making money; it's probably far more likely that it's a case of Hanlon's razor. Take the way PKI is used to enforce some rules on hardware (i.e. iBoot and the A-series SoCs from Apple but also Intel's BootGuard on a much larger scale); it's not that they want to block people that want to fiddle with their hardware and software, it's just that this is the best they could come up with to defend against generic attacks. And it's far from ideal.
- fauigerzigerk 8y ago>Well, "your ideas" contains your idea of them respecting the fact that people have different ideas and values [...]" I have ideas on different levels that shouldn't be conflated. I'm not asking Apple or anyone else to share my preferences and tastes. But some meta ideas are a prerequisite for disagreement on preferences, tastes and beliefs. Without those ideas we are moving towards authoritarianism. Once global companies become dominant enough, their decisions start to either facilitate or hinder liberty and authoritarianism, even under the assumption that they have to comply with the law at all times. I don't think being seen to be on the side of oppression and authoritarianism against your own users is ultimately conducive to maximising profits.