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"massive dependence" Switching from gmail to another provider isn't like living without electricity, it takes a couple of days updating some external accounts

"massive dependence" Switching from gmail to another provider isn't like living without electricity, it takes a couple of days updating some external accounts to reflect your new email; I did it. Buying shit from somewhere that isn't Amazon isn't exactly trekking through the jungle for 3 weeks. All you have to do is type in another domain. There is no shortage of non-Amazon sellers with similar prices. Switching from Chrome to Firefox takes 5 minutes, you can import your bookmarks and whatnot. Maybe you'll have to type in a password again. No climbing K2 level difficulty there either. Android and iOS aren't that different, you can click a browser, camera, or email in either in the same amount of time with the same UI. Sure it's effort, but it's not a hell of a lot of effort.

nexthash 6y ago
I hope you understand that this is all relative... what if you were in a situation where all of your friends/news are on Facebook? Where you don't have time to update 30+ accounts/subscriptions to reflect a new email address? Paying $500+ for an iPhone? Depending on the person, that is a hell of a lot of effort. If it wasn't, FAANG wouldn't be the empire it is today. It would be taking million user hits like WhatsApp after a single scandal.
- chrisco255 6y ago
  Well, they got to where they are by being trusted at what they do. They have rapidly lost that trust, in my mind. Once a party violates some level of implicit trust, you have to distance yourself from that party. Big tech has shown their true colors. They will abuse their monopoly power to exploit politics, manipulate people, cut up and coming competitors off at the knees, and censor anything they don't agree with. This is not the web I signed up for. This is not the revolutionary open tech that kids like me that grew up in the 90s gushed about. This is a dystopian Orwellian nightmare. It's time to get off the ride.

nexthash 6y ago

I hope you understand that this is all relative... what if you were in a situation where all of your friends/news are on Facebook? Where you don't have time to update 30+ accounts/subscriptions to reflect a new email address? Paying $500+ for an iPhone? Depending on the person, that is a hell of a lot of effort. If it wasn't, FAANG wouldn't be the empire it is today. It would be taking million user hits like WhatsApp after a single scandal.

chrisco255 6y ago
Well, they got to where they are by being trusted at what they do. They have rapidly lost that trust, in my mind. Once a party violates some level of implicit trust, you have to distance yourself from that party. Big tech has shown their true colors. They will abuse their monopoly power to exploit politics, manipulate people, cut up and coming competitors off at the knees, and censor anything they don't agree with. This is not the web I signed up for. This is not the revolutionary open tech that kids like me that grew up in the 90s gushed about. This is a dystopian Orwellian nightmare. It's time to get off the ride.