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How would that preclude the belief that Apple shouldn't do that?
by detaro 4y ago
How would that preclude the belief that Apple shouldn't do that?
- CharlesW 4y agoAnyone can believe anything, but if one is buying products that don't do what they need or want, that seems like a poor use of funds. Example: I can buy an Xbox and curse Microsoft that I can't play The Last of Us on it, but that's really on me.
- detaro 4y agoIn plenty product categories its basically impossible to find a product by a company that doesn't do something that it "shouldn't" do, and nevertheless picking one of them is still better than not picking any.
- stale2002 4y agoWell there is an alternative solution. That alternative solution being to force Apple, under threat of legal action and massive fines, to do what we want them to do (using the legal and legislative process).
- CharlesW 4y agoGiving nation-states control over how Apple runs their business in their countries based on what a tiny sliver of the most technically-adept users wants will somehow engender freedom. Is that the pitch?
- stale2002 4y ago> Giving nation-states control over how Apple runs their business ... based on If you don't like the political process then you can vote for someone else, who will pass the right laws, or appoint the right people to make such laws. If you don't like the legal process, then do that, leave the country, or do business elsewhere. Countries have a right to have laws that regulate companies. The population does not belong to Apple. That population has a right to run their country how they see fit, regardless of the objections of Apple. And if Apple tries to get around the law, you can expect them to suffer billions and billions of dollars of fines, or further legal consequences. Countries do not belong to Apple, and they have no right to get around the legal process.
- yellowapple 4y agoApple - like every corporation incorporated here in the United States - would literally not exist if it wasn't granted recognition as such by at least one nation-state. God forbid there be some conditions on that massive privilege.
- Bud 4y agoConversely, though: what gives you the belief that you should get to dictate to companies built and run by other people the way in which they run their business? Why do you get to decide?
- Apocryphon 4y agoBecause they are a member of the public, and companies operate under the laws that the public deliberate upon.