who would win: evil corp edition
who would win: evil corp edition
who would win meme format
[left side: apple]
expensive monetarily but petty in actions
[right side: openai]
open in name but closed in reality
How is it that the companies we rely on in our daily lives just all happen to be the greediest and worst possible decision makers
Capitalism
The greedier spreads wider and faster than the bening. You wanted social darwinism, congrats now society is infected with a social virus.
Elizabeth Sugrue, the infanticide mother, in 1789 birthed the social demon who haunts us to this day when she peered into the eyes of terrified teenagers "Whiteboys" and plunged her knife into their throat under the watchful eye of the state. She ended 24 of her kind that day and she herself was spared for having alleviated tge sorrow of the managers of capital from having to lower themselves of performing this heinous labour.
How do you think they got there in the first place?
Think of it like corporate Darwinism. The purpose of a corporation is to make money. In broad strokes, this means many decent organizations are acquired or put out of business, with the greedy money-first companies getting huge.
Hm, I don't know
Epic rap battles of capitalism
Microsoft: small and soft in name, huge and hard in reality?
Also, cool of you to include a transcriptthanks, accessibility is something I tend to focus on a lot.
"expensive monetarily but petty in actions"
Sounds like the meme rubrick had a word count requirement.
does it sound off?
Actually it looks like I misread it before commenting.
You could use "Expensive but petty" And "Named Open but isn't "
OpenAI is just a mask of Satan. Apple is just a contender for hell and doesn't run things there. Yet.
environmentalists would consider apple to be more than just a contender
In what sense Apple is expensive monetary?
costs me 100 dollars each year just so that I can push an app to their app store, even if I make zero bucks off of it(and if I did, they'd want an additional 30% share of it).
not to mention that I can't develop an app without a mac – an artificial requirement created by them.it is expensive for developers that aren't in the west
It's expensive for devs in the west, too, if you're as small as I am.
Every.
The hardware is expensive, the licensing is expensive, the hardware requires accessories you don't from other companies (dongles, so many dongles), and everything they do is hostile to repairs. Are there any aspects in which they offer a high value proposition?
I am an apple phone user from iPhone1. (While I do not consider myself apple fanboy, switching to android phone is just too much hustle), I have not purchased dongles for myself ever. I have purchased one dongle for my family - for daughter to use it with her headphones, (but androids are not better here with headphone jacks). I do not want to spend much money on my phone, so I buy top model of the phone and wait about 5 years before I switch. Apple is excellent with software updates so all the iPhones always run the latest software. I suspect this would not work as well with droids - software support at least few years ago was less long. So I totally think that I save money with iPhones. Also, have you looked at flagman android phone prices? They are similar or even more expensive than iPhone.
I do understand, of course, that different patter of phone usage may lead to androids being better/cheaper for other people, but not for everyone.
In what sense Apple is expensive monetary?
In any case if this is a face off, Apple will win - it has greater, much grater loyal customer base. Sooner or later Apple will have AppleGPT and will include premium subscription into Apple One plan, or whatever it is called. And I am telling this as both an Apple user and ChatGPT paid user.
A trillion dollar company demanding 30% cut of revenue of small developers, on top of annual developer fees and exorbitantly priced hardware with zero reparability and severe environmental impact isn't monetarily expensive enough for you? That isn't loyalty. It's stupid fanaticism that harms everyone else. And I don't want to even start about the petty part.
Don‘t forget the Core Technology Fee they will raise if you do wish to offer your app outside of the app store and you weren‘t qualified for the Apple Developer Enterprise program.
And don‘t forget that in order to be eligible for sideloading you have to have at least one million downloads on the App Store.
And don‘t forget that your app still has to go through the App Review process so you have exactly no additional freedom if you live in the european economical area.
I sure hope the EU keeps kicking Apples ass. I love iOS but i hate the lack of freedom.
Btw, does anyone know whether visionOS even supports sideloading in the EEA.
Are you violently agreeing with me?
Apple is exactly as shit as every other tech company, because they have to be in order to win the capitalism game.
But yeah, they sure have got a lot of zealots...
The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur.
(by Cory Doctorow, here's the recent article: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money )
To think there was a time when IMO Apple could convince people with great products.
(Macintosh SE explodes in the background due to overheating)
Then again i‘ve mostly seen old Apple computers on Youtube.
In what sense is Apple not expensive monetarily, is a better question.
Their hardware is way more expensive than their competitors and they go out of their way to make them difficult to repair, all while making it difficult for third party repair shops to get the parts and schematics that they need. The genius bar goes out of their way to make you pay for a new laptop rather than do a repair that could be done for >100x cheaper by anyone else.
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