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Apple are pretty much the only humanist big tech company. They’re a bulwark against all sorts of absolute nonsense that would reduce the technological landscape
by hyko 6y ago
Apple are pretty much the only humanist big tech company. They’re a bulwark against all sorts of absolute nonsense that would reduce the technological landscape to more of a dismal-looking, utilitarian panopticon than it already is.
- zamadatix 6y agoThe only thing Safari has to do is be good enough people can use it as a web browser but bad enough it can't replace apps. It doesn't need to ensure user data gets collected and sold or push ads or any other business model - it just needs to protect the 10s of billions of passive income from the app store. As a result it's free to make whatever choices make sense for the user as long as they aren't related to that. I wouldn't call it "humanist" because of that just a different revenue model. The same is true for the rest of Apple, it didn't get to a 2,000,000,000,000 market cap because it's humanist it got there with unique ways and focus on how to make money. Probably less bad than how Google does it though I don't consider that the bar for doing good.