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Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We... by DanHulton on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @08:37PM (#39686662)
"You hate capitalism so much, _and yet you live under capitalism!_ How very hypocritical of you..."

Don't get me wrong, Framework makes a lot of neat stuff, but you can't swap out a Macbook to _anything_ without consequences. It does not take a lot of imagination and empathy to see that for some people, those consequences aren't acceptable at all, or not simply not worth the utterly undetectable sting that a company such as Apple would feel by us not buying a single Macbook from them.

If someone has to alter their entire work environment and process, while Apple doesn't even notice, is that truly worth the moral superiority they'll feel? For a whole lot of people, that answer is "no", and I can't blame them.

And yet we live under capitalism...

Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We... by gxs on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:25PM (#39687060)
What a false equivalency.

No, you can’t avoid capitalism, you’re born in the country your born and you don’t have that choice.

This is more like moving to a capitalist country and then complaining that you live in a capitalist country.

Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We... by rezonant on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:02PM (#39687310)
The tech companies have boiled their frogs slowly and deliberately. Apple didn't start out the way it is today after all.
Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We... by docmars on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:12PM (#39687726)
Good point -- With great power comes great inevitable irresponsibility and abuses. The human condition never fails to pollute and corrupt anything as untouchable as Apple. Too big to fail, by definition!