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The thing that annoys me is that people always thing the worst when something happens in Apple land. Most of the times things happen because they simply make se
by st3fan 15y ago
The thing that annoys me is that people always thing the worst when something happens in Apple land. Most of the times things happen because they simply make sense.
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoThat's absolutely right. The problem is just that not everything that makes sense for Apple's bottom line makes sense for mine. For instance, deleting everything from my iPod without warning probably made sense for Apple's copyright negatiations with media companies. It didn't make much sense to me. Censoring dictonaries and banning everything sexual, satirical, political or otherwise "unclean" from the app store probably makes sense for Apple. Makes no sense to me. So, I guess, the issue I have with the phrase "making sense" is that it obfiuscates the fact that everyone has their own vested interests and the vested interests of a particular large corporation are sometimes very different from mine.
- sedev 15y ago"the vested interests of a particular large corporation are sometimes very different from mine." Couldn't agree more! Especially when it comes to large corporations where you are a product being sold to advertisers, they're even worse than large corporations that accept money from you in return for goods and services.
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoI wouldn't say one is necessarily worse than the other. It's more that my interests overlap and disagree with either of them in different areas. Ad driven companies have an incentive to spy on me and I have to defend against that. On the other hand, they have to be pretty agnostic when it comes to the type of content they enable and that gives me free and anonymous access to pretty much anything I want.