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There's another point changing, but that's not specific to Apple, to its investment towards developers, and to its "exigence" of quality; it's related to all US
by Juliate 2y ago
There's another point changing, but that's not specific to Apple, to its investment towards developers, and to its "exigence" of quality; it's related to all US technology.
While it may not have the same perspective and impact for US Americans, for others (europeans, here), it has: the current main issue now with Apple is that it is a US company. As Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, so much others.
As such, given the direction the US government is going, we (Europeans) _have to_ divest, as much as possible [1], from relying on US-based technology, for both pro and personal use.
Because, now, what trust or guarantee do we have our data and processes could not be taken hostage or offline or used against us by an adversary? the choice is obvious. We would never have invested our tech reliance on Russian tech, for instance.
I hear the comments "that's ludicrous, those are serious US business companies, won't happen, what are you going to do". But how are these serious US business companies free from any political interference from that kind of government?
[1] That hurts, already, and that will hurt. It means invest a lot into our own tech that is objectively not on par at all, but we realistically have no choice.
- snovymgodym 2y ago> We would never have invested our tech reliance on Russian tech, for instance. Energy, on the other hand...
- Juliate 2y agoWe shut it off precisely because it became a political lever for Russia.
- snovymgodym 2y agoExcept it's not shut off. European countries are still buying tons of hydrocarbon resources from Russia.
- pjmlp 2y agoThe problem is that we are way deep into this sh**, all major layers of the stack from CPUs to programming languages, are mostly sponsored, or owned by US companies. To go back to the diversity we had during cold war days, it will take decades, and we need a solution now.
- creer 2y ago> Because, now, what trust or guarantee do we have our data and processes could not be taken hostage or offline or used against us by an adversary? Don't be too happy to support euro political initiatives - for example when it comes to the security and privacy of your (european) data. It hasn't been pretty. And out of the pack, it's Apple that has been resisting the trend - and probably has the better offer for non-technical users.
- Juliate 2y agoTotally agree with you on both points. Yet, we don't know how strong Apple can be in the face of an adversarial government. And we do need something to compete with it, aiming to have at least the same goals in privacy and user friendliness. The task is huge, and it probably doesn't even start with tech itself, but here we are.