300%. Apple is a particularly obstinate egregious offender. But these other tech fiefs also keep up the same shit: Google's App Store, Valve's Steam. It's insa

300%. Apple is a particularly obstinate egregious offender. But these other tech fiefs also keep up the same shit: Google's App Store, Valve's Steam. It's insane and absurd but the market being able to define itself & how it operates is the change. We used to have property law which offered people who owned things rights. But today the world is entirely built by contract law, by mega corps getting to offer only terms of use highly slanted towards them. The idea of personal computing bespeaks an empowerment, a possibility-ization. I adore the internet, but by far the mass trend of the internet and business has been to subvert control & dominate possibility, to intermediate every step of the way to computational thinking & it's open possibility with restraint, guards, and checks. I truly believe we are emerging amazing potential to do better, to create much broader scopes of more. But getting past what a single piece of software or single site enables & scoping systems larger, with a pretense of perhaps maybe if we are lucky intertwingularity is the gateway to heaven, that which the dirtiest shittiest scum have bent computing diametrically away from & towards their rotten bought sold & paying for core. It's been hell.