Comment by kevincox
5 months ago
Yeah, this is weird logic to me. If you want control of your computing don't buy Apple hardware and hope to find an exploit. But hardware that supports running your own software without fighting you.
5 months ago
Yeah, this is weird logic to me. If you want control of your computing don't buy Apple hardware and hope to find an exploit. But hardware that supports running your own software without fighting you.
> Buy hardware that supports running your own software without fighting you.
It will be very hard to buy something that won't exist in the near future. This rhetoric should've died a decade ago.
Maybe, but it exists now. Maybe if more people demanded this hardware then it would be more popular and not at risk of extinction. I don't know what rhetoric you are taking about? Recommending buying stuff that supports your wishes seems like pretty reasonable advice.
Voting with your wallet doesn't work when the overwhelming majority does want to be locked up.
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> I don't know what rhetoric you are taking about.
The rhetoric of blaming consumers for buying the wrong product when they complain about hostile features on Apple's side of the duopoly, and then blaming them again when they switch to Android and complain about hostile features on that side.
The rhetoric of blaming the consumers for simply "not demanding" what we want with enough conviction. It's an asinine thing to suggest because freedom to install and customize has been the headline feature of Android since day 1, but they're killing it anyway because the duopoly doesn't give a shit about what we want. They know that they can make more money and they know that we don't have a choice.
> Recommending buying stuff that supports your wishes seems like pretty reasonable advice.
No, not when the market is a well-known abusive duopoly. That's either ignorant of the reality or just gaslighting.
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