Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We...
by gxs on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:25PM
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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
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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
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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!
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...