David Burke
counternotionsDOJ’s antitrust suit against Apple may read infuriatingly ignorant, inaccurate and ahistorical, but, above all, it’s an ideological frontal attack on the notion of integrated product/platform design…a death march to commodification and interchangeability. The rest is much noise.
sdw@counternotions and, to me, another step in politics that seem mostly concerned with signaling a stance to voters than steps taken to achieve concrete political and economical goals.
@sdw Big. Tech.
jasonclarke@counternotions Apple's brought this on themselves. They had plenty of time to make meaningful moves that would dispel the notion of anticompetitive behaviour, and they chose war. This suit is deeply flawed and may have terrible ramifications, but the blame for it happening lies solely at Apple's feet.
@jasonclarke @counternotions tbqh sounds like you drew your conclusions and then decided how you would justify them.
Delric@jasonclarke @counternotions nonsense. they’re a vertical company doing what vertical companies do, which is why it’s the most successful consumer good in history. i like how it works, for the reason it works. the EU and ignorant dumbasses in the DOJ can get bent. Blaming the victim of a wrongful suit is absurd
Michael Sokolov@counternotions I've always felt Apple's attitude towards its customers was paternalistic. They know what's best for you. Their way or the highway. Users aren't allowed to configure the devices they own or make other significant choices. They've done real harm to innovation and creativity and force customers to pay for unwanted upgrades, cough power adapters
@msokolov Totally.
As evidenced by ~1.4 billion miserable, tortured users.
As evidenced by ~1.4 billion miserable, tortured users.
@counternotions it's not as much the users I'm concerned about, you have capitulated with the hegemony, but the resisters. Or perhaps you won't be satisfied until the remaining 6B have been brought to heel.
MaysonLancaster@counternotions I keep wondering how much Android users would have been willing to pay for iMessage on Android? $5/month? $10? $20?
@maysonic May have been an interesting experiment, but not Apple’s burden to bear, no?
Nate O@counternotions Please...