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Re:Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri by frosted-flakes on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:16AM (#24452623)
You can support a company for some of its actions while also condemning it for others. It's totally legitimate to be on Epic's side in the Apple vs Epic lawsuit while also supporting Apple's privacy measures.
Re:Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri by samzer on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:16PM (#24453509)
Yep. Totally agree.

I appreciate apple's attempt in the privacy space as well as loathe their 30% mandatory in app purchase integration which EPIC is fighting against. You need someone who is big like Epic to stand against apple as they the resource to battle it out legally.

One of my clients is a small player and they have stripe integration for their service. The android platform uses the stripe integration where as the apple platform has forced in app purchases down their throat. In app purchases should be an option and it should be upto the customer if they want to use it or not.

Re:Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri by nogabebop23 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:06PM (#24453434)
I agree with this belief, as well as not letting perfect be the enemy of better, as in this case: I can choose Apple over FB while still not liking Apple.

The problem is it's really hard to hold these apparently contradictory positions in your head at the same time. We love binary distinctions on single dimension axes because our brains are more efficiently with this paradigm. In truth the world at any degree of scale does not work this way and we've got to do a better job developing more nuanced personal positions.