Comment by F7F7F7
2 days ago
Apple is unabashedly, outwardly, privacy focused. Just their law enforcement policies put them way ahead of their competitors. But this argument usually deteriorates to "they are all the same!" so I won't even bother making a case for them.
What I will say that if Apple is what Woz feared. Then what's OpenAI and X/Grok and Google and Facebook (hell bench on world domination)? Unimaginable?
Chorus They are all the same! Chorus
Apple helped create the black rectangle monolith appliances-in-a-smartphone plague. But they are not even in the top 10 list of companies I'm currently worried about. They are far more embarrassing than dangerous as of late.
I think you are attributing to choice what can easily be explained by contigent circumstances.
Apple is privacy focused because it's a lifestyle and tech fashion company that competes with internet data brokers. Apple's instincts for monopoly power, locking down the market and choking life out of their complements is second to none.
Given the opportunity, all successful tech CEOs are bred and selected to burn the world down if the result is aligned to their power goals.
I don't see it as choking the life out of anything. They started in blank slate era of PCs. They grew as a compnay developing many human centric details for computing. They have a group of customers that like that approach and that is who they cater to. They just want to play in their own sandbox. The desire to control their own sandbox and customers is not aggressive. Their success with customers is a reaction to that. The fact that they keep some developers ideas at arms length is not aggressive. They support development with a different set of criteria than the mass market.
It’s both. Steve was who he was. Tim was a gay man in an era when the fbi would blackmail you over your choices. The product decisions and enterprise decisions aren’t made in a vacuum.