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> 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
by 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.