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"For users, the changes include new controls and disclosures, and expanded protections to reduce privacy and security risks the DMA creates" Jesus. Not only is

"For users, the changes include new controls and disclosures, and expanded protections to reduce privacy and security risks the DMA creates" Jesus. Not only is Apple serving us a shit sandwich with this press release, they're telling us it's filet mignon, for our own good. Is anyone who has been in tech for the past 25 years or so not completely disillusioned with the state of tech as a business? The "tech optimism" of the late 90s seems like another universe. It feels like every single big tech company is only worried about their business and profits, service to the user be damned. They're all "evil", rotten to the core, 100%, across the board. New technology (and I'm not talking about how we usually refer to it as Internet/silicon tech these days) used to be about making people's lives better. I think the piece of tech that I most value these days is probably my dishwasher. So much other tech is just actively hostile - think of the HP CEO's recent announcement that we should all owe HP money per page. Like there is a person on the planet who wants that. As someone who's worked in tech since the .com boom, my disillusionment is on the verge of depression. I'm honestly ashamed at the forces I've contributed to, even if only a minuscule bit.

fsflover 3y ago
> my disillusionment is on the verge of depression. I'm honestly ashamed at the forces I've contributed to, even if only a minuscule bit. Not everything is lost yet. You can support small companies going against the stream, including Purism, Pine64, System76 and more.
seydor 3y ago
you're a large number of years too late
crazygringo 3y ago
I don't know what tech optimism of the 90's you're talking about. That was the era when people called Microsoft "Micro$oft" because they thought it was so greedy and evil. I don't see anything having changed at all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- seydor 3y ago
  > called Microsoft "Micro$oft" because they thought it was so greedy and evil. Exactly , they weren't praising them for their monopolistic behavior
- xw39011 3y ago
  Tech optimism of the late 90s was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism We were going to solve all the world's problems with file sharing via the internet. (Oh, to be young again...) Tech naiveté is perhaps a better description but it did exist, especially in San Francisco. "During the late 1990s dot-com boom, when the speculative bubble gave rise to claims that an era of "permanent prosperity" had arrived, techno-utopianism flourished, typically among the small percentage of the population who were employees of Internet startups and/or owned large quantities of high-tech stocks. With the subsequent crash, many of these dot-com techno-utopians had to rein in some of their beliefs in the face of the clear return of traditional economic reality."
- ReptileMan 3y ago
  You could literally do whatever you desired on windows. Which is the only thing I want from iphones. There has never been a good reason not to have some form of opt in root on the phone aside from apple greed.
  - crazygringo 3y ago
    In the 90's you virtually couldn't buy a computer without Windows because Microsoft forced manufacturers to pay them for Windows for every computer they built and sold, no matter whether that computer contained Windows or not. And you can still install whatever you want on Macs. Just saying, let's not look at the 90's as some paragon of openness.
    - ReptileMan 3y ago
      I literally could buy computers without windows in the 90-s. Probably 2 or 3 of them. And you could always build your rig from scratch - and no windows then.

fsflover 3y ago

> my disillusionment is on the verge of depression. I'm honestly ashamed at the forces I've contributed to, even if only a minuscule bit. Not everything is lost yet. You can support small companies going against the stream, including Purism, Pine64, System76 and more.

seydor 3y ago

you're a large number of years too late

crazygringo 3y ago

I don't know what tech optimism of the 90's you're talking about. That was the era when people called Microsoft "Micro$oft" because they thought it was so greedy and evil. I don't see anything having changed at all. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

seydor 3y ago
> called Microsoft "Micro$oft" because they thought it was so greedy and evil. Exactly , they weren't praising them for their monopolistic behavior
xw39011 3y ago
Tech optimism of the late 90s was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism We were going to solve all the world's problems with file sharing via the internet. (Oh, to be young again...) Tech naiveté is perhaps a better description but it did exist, especially in San Francisco. "During the late 1990s dot-com boom, when the speculative bubble gave rise to claims that an era of "permanent prosperity" had arrived, techno-utopianism flourished, typically among the small percentage of the population who were employees of Internet startups and/or owned large quantities of high-tech stocks. With the subsequent crash, many of these dot-com techno-utopians had to rein in some of their beliefs in the face of the clear return of traditional economic reality."
ReptileMan 3y ago
You could literally do whatever you desired on windows. Which is the only thing I want from iphones. There has never been a good reason not to have some form of opt in root on the phone aside from apple greed.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  In the 90's you virtually couldn't buy a computer without Windows because Microsoft forced manufacturers to pay them for Windows for every computer they built and sold, no matter whether that computer contained Windows or not. And you can still install whatever you want on Macs. Just saying, let's not look at the 90's as some paragon of openness.
  - ReptileMan 3y ago
    I literally could buy computers without windows in the 90-s. Probably 2 or 3 of them. And you could always build your rig from scratch - and no windows then.