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>Apple to some extent is protecting us from Facebook and Google and keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them
by lovelyviking 3y ago
>Apple to some extent is protecting us from Facebook and Google and keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them.
Right, Including protecting me from me unless I find extra pleasure in ‘calling big fruit boss every few days’ for running my own soft on my (supposedly) own phone.
To avoid this ‘pleasure’ I have to pay developer fee yearly. If someone is looking for definition of ‘idiocy’ one should look no further.
Yet there is always someone trying to justify even that. ‘It is more secure ‘ - they usually say forgetting to mention that security starts with control and ends without it.
The obvious question to ask usually would be:
So who would protect you from Apple itself?
More entertaining question could be: Who is going to protect you from you?
But then we recall about AI and we can guess the answer which spoils the whole entertaining aspect of the question.
So the only question left is: What people would not justify when some big company does it?
- foogazi 3y ago> So who would protect you from Apple itself? Pick your poison, right ? Someone is in control of the machine and it’s not me since I didn’t make it I don’t know who you are so I don’t trust you Thus I pay to live inside the walled garden Is it total freedom ? No, but it’s reasonable enough for me and my family
- lovelyviking 3y agoPick your poison, right ? Right as long as you know what poison you choose. At least control someone who controls your machine, including the building process. >Thus I pay to live inside the walled garden At the moment it’s more like you pay for garden with imaginable walls while in reality there are no walls and frankly it doesn’t look like garden at all. The only real wall you face is when you are trying avoid living in this fantasy. There is more precise definition for such ‘garden’ - starts with prison. Is it total freedom ? no, but it seems it’s reasonable for …. I barely see something reasonable about it. It’s more like a luck of wish to stand for own dignity thinking that such stand is possible to avoid. When people (some people) thought sharing some data is not a big deal in current conditions. Did they think about another situation when current form of AI is around? Did you think about changes of the environment when you wrote ‘ it’s reasonable enough’? You didn’t even add ‘for now’ suggesting of course you know everything that ‘now’ is happening. And you even ready to expand this vision to whole family? I wish to be that sure about the future. I am not trying to attack you personally, I think it is very common ‘logic’ these days except I cannot see it as logic at all.
- rantingdemon 3y agoYou could always just get an Android phone...