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> Apple starts censoring your sentences at the keyboard level. How would you feel then? Vindicated by my choice of operating system. But seriously, "what if <
by TulliusCicero 3y ago
> Apple starts censoring your sentences at the keyboard level. How would you feel then?
Vindicated by my choice of operating system.
But seriously, "what if <company> did monumentally stupid thing for their business?" can be asked about many sorts of things. What if Apple decides to only support Dvorak keyboards? What if Apple gets rid of all of their game-specific graphics APIs? What if Apple triples their prices overnight? Which of these should the government categorically ban businesses from doing?
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago> Which of these should the government categorically ban businesses from doing? The conventional answer within contemporary (say, post-1950) US capitalism is: nothing, unless they are a monopoly. I don't agree with this assessment, but it has many believers and even a few arguments on its side.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoCorrect: the government should not be micromanaging generically bad business practices unless it amounts to actual abuse of consumers/workers/the envinronment/etc. Just doing really dumb bad shit that'll result in a failing business isn't that. If Apple wants to stupidly censor people at the keyboard level and thus incite everyone to switch to Windows or Linux (or Android), well that's dumb, but doing dumb things shouldn't be generally illegal.