Re:Be angry with yourself, not Apple
by ajeet_dhaliwal on Sunday October 30, 2016 @01:04PM
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Sounds like a post by Richard Stallman. I understand the argument but there is an element of practicality involved here, is there anyone out there who buys absolutely nothing from corporation? Very few I would think unless you own your own farm and never leave it.
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Unless you build your own laptop/desktop from raw materials, you are buying from a corporation. Anyone is free to buy a laptop with a physical escape key.
The point is: the more you invest in a propriety ecosystem, developing for a certain company's products on that same company's products, the less flexibility and freedom you have to change.
Apple's primary goal is consumer adoption; developer needs are necessarily secondary. To demand that Apple cater to the latter misunderstands the company's priorities.
Fundamentally, this sounds like a generic 'anti-corporation' rant. "That's what you get for trusting The Man, man!"
Re:Be angry with yourself, not Apple
by jasonkostempski on Sunday October 30, 2016 @01:38PM
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It's an anti-idiot factory rant. In the tech field, it's a fact at this point, you cannot trust the man. It's demonstrated almost daily. It won't change though, it takes about a decade of getting burned before getting fed up with it and by then you're outside the target market, but the next round of idiots are already in line.
I do not think it's about buying nothing from corporations, but rather having put all of your belongings into the basket of one company.