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You don’t want to be a part of the group and reap the benefits of collaboration and economies of scale? Well then your $1200 isn’t going very far. But you can h
by threshold 5y ago
You don’t want to be a part of the group and reap the benefits of collaboration and economies of scale? Well then your $1200 isn’t going very far. But you can have a lump of aluminum, a pile of sand and a sheet of glass. And there’s enough left over for a huge pile of books so you can learn how to fab chips, make circuit boards, write your own operating system and build your own phone network. Good luck
This idea that you’re somehow special and exist in a vacuum is privileged and arrogant. You’re relying on other people to do everything for you. They feed you and look after you when you’re sick. And they build these fantastic technologies and work long hard hours and die early just to make it affordable. You got a great deal, the best any living human ever was offered. But the group asks you to run a program you can’t even see so their children don’t get raped and suddenly you’ve been cheated and violated and wronged.
- commoner 5y agoThat's a very unreasonable take. Privacy is not reserved for "special" people, it's for everyone. A $1,200 smartphone is generally not considered a "great deal" and definitely not "the best deal ever offered to a human being in recorded history". And users are absolutely justified to oppose on-device surveillance introduced on their smartphone, regardless of whether you consider it a "product" or a "service".