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While I agree shit happens, it is sad to see exaggerated stories without sufficient details being repeatedly quoted by other people https://news.ycombinator.co
by harikb 6y ago
While I agree shit happens, it is sad to see exaggerated stories without sufficient details being repeatedly quoted by other people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26311417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26311417
In addition, traditional non-tech companies screw people on a regular basis. I know I am resorting to whataboutism, but let us not panic and try to build our own cloud. One has to consider what happens and when one gets decapitated in a autonomous driving accident and the family is left with a home-made cloud
- bogwog 6y agoThere's nothing exaggerated about that story. Apple cut off access to his accounts and services because of a payment issue (which wasn't even his fault). Even if it was his fault, and he just decided not to make that payment, the story still illustrates how much power Apple has. It's like if you missed a car payment, and the bank used their connections to cut off your cell phone, water, electricity, etc until you paid. Whether or not missing a payment is immoral/wrong, giving a private company so much power over an individual's life is absurd. That's some mafia, break your knee caps with a baseball bat-type shit.