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Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by amelius on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:52AM (#28999747)
> By nature all new technology comes with the potential to do both good and bad, and usually it does a bit of both.

But technology can be made without doing bad, see Librem or Pine64.

If you subtract Librem from Apple, what you're left with is anti-consumer surveillance stuff.

Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by Vinnl on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:17AM (#29000004)
Well, until you get into conflict minerals, depletion of natural resources, environmental pollution, exploitation of workers, ...

(None of that is specific to Librem/Purism or Pine64, but mostly applies to the tech industry at large, of course.)

Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by fsflover on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:40AM (#29000996)
The resources problem is worse with Apple, since they strongly hinder repair/reuse of their devies.
Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by stinos on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:33AM (#29000187)
I honestly think even those can be made better, if the will is there to do so. At a cost, of course, which is the main problem.
Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by inkblotuniverse on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @10:20AM (#29013607)
In the long run, it becomes profitable to dig up landfills and recycle everything (see aluminium cans). Eventually, they'll dig up landfills to recover the old materials.