Re:Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App
by rickdeckard on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:40AM
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This is a hilariously weird response to a valid criticism.
"Yeah, internet-outages are horrible. And sure, AT&T could fix that. But instead they chose to help people to disconnect from time to time and focus more on their families, which is overall the biggest contribution a company can make to society and should be rewarded by buying more of their services"
I keep seeing this kind of other-worldly self-defense only related to Apple. Positioning a brand as an element of the users' personal identity is truly an impressive thing...
Re:Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App
by williamdclt on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:37AM
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I think (though not entirely certain) the comment you're responding to was sarcastic
> Positioning a brand as an element of the users' personal identity is truly an impressive thing
Apple definitely did an impressive job at that!
Sure, they're horrible, but I look at it as Apple generously creating jobs for engineers. I had a full-time job as a build engineer specializing in navigating the Lovecraftian nightmare of iOS build automation. Sure, they could've made it easy, but instead they chose to help transfer large sums of money from my family-friendly multinational megacorp employer to me. I returned the favor by using some of that money to buy their products.