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Does Apple think its shenanigans are going to precipitate a backlash against EU regulation? Because every time I read about a new round of BS my blood boils an
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
Does Apple think its shenanigans are going to precipitate a backlash against EU regulation?
Because every time I read about a new round of BS my blood boils and my attitude against Apple and other huge anticompetitive corporates just hardens.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoApple is a shitty company that makes very good products and has very good marketing (which has basically ensorcelled a lot of people to reduce their judgment)
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoThank you for introducing me to the word 'ensorcel'.
- ufocia 3y agoI always thought so too, but I would say that they are merely relatively good products. Although I don't like the UI, the UX, and the cost, I always thought that Apple products are objectively good, i.e. they are stable. However, I've recently learned from others that that's not/no longer the case.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoI think Apple hardware is excellent. Anti-consumer, but excellent. Their software is a mixed bag and I'm not impressed with the majority of it.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoThere is a guy on YouTube, who repairs Apple devices (or laptops?), and who shows, that not even their hardware is actually good. In one specific case they built in a part, that again and again in previous models failed, in the same function. Sent in laptops for repairs with the defect did not get a better part, but instead sloppily soldered on old parts as a replacement. If I find the link withib edit allowed time, I will update this comment.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoLouis Rossman, possibly?
- zelphirkalt 3y agoFound it: https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
- carlosjobim 3y ago> my blood boils Why? You have the option to avoid Apple completely and not have them interfere in your life what so ever, and it's an easy choice. Just don't buy their products. Your blood should boil for things that you can not easily avoid in life. You're wasting your passion on completely meaningless things. In the end, it's just phones and computers.
- makeitdouble 3y agoWe're on HN, as devs I think it's natural to care about how a major and influencial platform is managed, even if we're not using it personally.
- whimsicalism 3y agofor the younger of us, there is honestly significant social friction in parts of the US if you do not have an iphone. I’ve noticed lots of people on here scoff at that idea but I suspect that many are not gen z
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoThat's idiotic. If you don't stand up for principle, you lose everything. My personal loses or gains are petty and irrelevant. It's the very opposite of meaningless. I don't know how anyone can watch a huge corporation repeatedly thumb their nose at their laws and government and not have their blood boil. You think a huge corporation trying to assert it's above the law is kosher? Just let Apple do whatever it likes? One day you will wake up and you no longer have freedoms you previously enjoyed because they were taken by a massive corporation that asserted its power over democratic institutions.
- carlosjobim 3y agoGood luck with your impotent rage. "That's idiotic!" is not the kind of response that will net any productive conversation.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoEspecially on this site and community one would expect, that the network effect is a widely known phenomenon.