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A comment on Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House antitrust committee chair.

Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by Larrikin on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:19AM (#23571927)
As much as I agree with the stance against I hate the coverage and the press this is getting with people evangelicizing the CEO. He's regularly referenced on this site by his initials (which even as a regular reader of tech news I had to look up) which comes across as cult of personality at best and astroturfing at worse.
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Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by deltron3030 on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:11AM (#23572238)
He actually is a kind of cult personality in the tech world because he wrote Ruby on Rails (which itself was kind of contrarian to most other things in that space), and it's the foundation lots of web software startups are build on. There would be no Twitter or Github without him.
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Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by Hamuko on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:53AM (#23572111)
>He's regularly referenced on this site by his initials

Yeah, it's his Twitter handle. Do you think people are evangelizing rms just because he refers to himself as that and that people are following his example?

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Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by drukenemo on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:51AM (#23572092)
He’s not the CEO though.
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