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My first post to Threads: “A little competition is a good thing. Welcome to Threads…” Competition is critical to get the best systems. Apple vs Windows. Andro

My first post to Threads: “A little competition is a good thing. Welcome to Threads…” Competition is critical to get the best systems. Apple vs Windows. Android vs iOS,Intel vs AMD…

agentgumshoe 3y ago
Would be slightly better if the competition wasn't coming from the megacorp across the road...
- snarkyturtle 3y ago
  The megacorp who actively designed algorithms that boosted content that made people angry, and allowed for third-parties to manipulate their APIs into influencing elections.
  - lockhouse 3y ago
    I feel that’s by design. Mark Zuckerberg has poured a lot of money into the last few elections.
hdior 3y ago
Intel vs AMD… but x86 sucks; spectre and the like, power hungry ornate designs Apple vs Windows… closed source and otherwise encumbered Android vs iOS… App Store pay to play, restricted or 100% closed in iOS’ case As “systems” your choices of “best” come with numerous drawbacks
- melling 3y ago
  Sorry, the point I wanted to make was that without competition, companies have little incentive to improve their products. Sure, Linux rules, the Motorola 68000 was nicer than x86, Beta beat VHS, … in a perfect world,…
  - hdior 3y ago
    Linux… on the contrary I think it sucks We have yet to make a technology that will stand the test of time; Linux is not what humans will use in another 100 years. Even with competition look at the music industry and content industry churning out piles of shovelware expecting billion dollar box office and massive reach because “that’s how it works”. It’s not competition that drive’s innovation but public acceptance. Linux sucks for the same reasons the other things suck; nostalgia. “The market”, us, is accepting rehashes of the same old shit. That’s antithetical to competition; where’s the competition for 32 hour work weeks and universal healthcare that works; mired in economic theory that coincidentally empowers a minority of billionaires we all complain about. What competition when it’s all “sit still, carry on maintenance value stores of yesteryear.” I refuse to put on myself obligation to memorize Bloomberg is rich. They’re each just one meat based cassette tape equivocating from memory why I should kowtow to their fiat wealth through narrative I never witnessed take place. Where’s the real competition in ideas; the old ought to be ingratiating themselves on the youth for obvious reasons rather than the inverse of forcing us to prop them up.

My first post to Threads: “A little competition is a good thing. Welcome to Threads…” Competition is critical to get the best systems. Apple vs Windows. Android vs iOS,Intel vs AMD…

agentgumshoe 3y ago

Would be slightly better if the competition wasn't coming from the megacorp across the road...

snarkyturtle 3y ago
The megacorp who actively designed algorithms that boosted content that made people angry, and allowed for third-parties to manipulate their APIs into influencing elections.
- lockhouse 3y ago
  I feel that’s by design. Mark Zuckerberg has poured a lot of money into the last few elections.

hdior 3y ago

Intel vs AMD… but x86 sucks; spectre and the like, power hungry ornate designs Apple vs Windows… closed source and otherwise encumbered Android vs iOS… App Store pay to play, restricted or 100% closed in iOS’ case As “systems” your choices of “best” come with numerous drawbacks

melling 3y ago
Sorry, the point I wanted to make was that without competition, companies have little incentive to improve their products. Sure, Linux rules, the Motorola 68000 was nicer than x86, Beta beat VHS, … in a perfect world,…
- hdior 3y ago
  Linux… on the contrary I think it sucks We have yet to make a technology that will stand the test of time; Linux is not what humans will use in another 100 years. Even with competition look at the music industry and content industry churning out piles of shovelware expecting billion dollar box office and massive reach because “that’s how it works”. It’s not competition that drive’s innovation but public acceptance. Linux sucks for the same reasons the other things suck; nostalgia. “The market”, us, is accepting rehashes of the same old shit. That’s antithetical to competition; where’s the competition for 32 hour work weeks and universal healthcare that works; mired in economic theory that coincidentally empowers a minority of billionaires we all complain about. What competition when it’s all “sit still, carry on maintenance value stores of yesteryear.” I refuse to put on myself obligation to memorize Bloomberg is rich. They’re each just one meat based cassette tape equivocating from memory why I should kowtow to their fiat wealth through narrative I never witnessed take place. Where’s the real competition in ideas; the old ought to be ingratiating themselves on the youth for obvious reasons rather than the inverse of forcing us to prop them up.