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> You can't "vote with your wallet". If there's anything that will make a business listen, it's money (or lack of it). When it affects the bottom line, they ar
by danuker 5y ago
> You can't "vote with your wallet".
If there's anything that will make a business listen, it's money (or lack of it). When it affects the bottom line, they are forced to listen.
Sure, I don't affect them much by myself. But everyone commenting about Apple around my presence will find out why I am not sponsoring them.
There is also the crappy hardware design, not just the privacy issues (which negate the advertising spending they made the months before). Here is what Louis Rossmann, who repairs Apple devices, says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
- dredmorbius 5y agoPretty clearly, forty-plus years of sustained warnings and criticisms[1] of increasing surveillance and security failures have failed to have any substantive influence on the industry. It's not that the concerns aren't justified. It's that they're far too complex to be communicated and grasped by the public as a whole, and they facilitate far too much by way of immediate profit and market advantage to the vendors who will more than happily ignore the warnings. A boycott by the vanishingly small fraction of the market which does fully grasp the issue is no threat at all. ________________________________ Notes: 1. See: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193