alt Hacker NewsAlways fun to interact with some internet Thomas Jefferson giving freedom speeches from his mother's basement.
Reality is that people pay a lot of money because they 'trust' Apple (and to a lesser extent Google), but Meta is the sleaziest one of them all. (And I don't use their shit either.) But people want Whatapp and Instagram, and so you are telling them now they have sell-out and go to the "Meta App Store" to talk to their friends. That fucking sucks. And I think you agree with that.
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We keep mocking and laughing at the "internet Thomas Jefferson"s of the world but they seem to be getting increasingly prescient about the dystopian world where we are giving bad actors disproportionate control over our lives on the pretext of keeping us or children safer.
And yet you're apparently not losing your mind over Mark Zuckerberg having his products on the web? He's doing everything you claim on the open web - third party trackers embedded on other websites, etc. Do you want to lock down the web?
I think you have a reason for defending Apple. Maybe you love the company, maybe you've got their stock, maybe you've worked for them.
Apple is a trillion dollar behemoth that has distorted the market and removed freedom and choice. They're a menace that needs to be regulated. Period.
I also think Zuckerberg's tracking needs to be regulated, but that's a battle for another day. It's one we haven't so egregiously lost yet.
People don't need Meta. People need smartphones. And smartphones are draconian dictatorships that the government has been too asleep and too lax to regulate.
Under such topics there are always comments about each vendor making their own store, yet it didn't happen on Android, where it's currently perfectly possible.