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who would win: evil corp edition
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who would win meme format
[left side: apple]
expensive monetarily but petty in actions
[right side: openai]
open in name but closed in reality
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?
I laugh everytime I see fanbois biting the bait even if it was a very mild uninspired bait. Makes it easy to tag moronic fanatics and identify them in the future.
Maximum eyeroll
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...
(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.
~~loyal~~ bootlickers like you.
The fuck is that? I am not Apple funboy, but the judgement here is easy.
Sure buddy
That counts as apology this days?
No no one is apologising to you keep hoping.
I bet you think about yourself as a good person. But you are not.
No i think of myself as a necessory person not good or evil. Just a guy sayin and doin things that no one else would not because they can't but because they won't.
Well, at least in that we agree - you are not good person. And making personal attacks to a person who simply stated his opinion is not “necessary” by any account.
Yep and you are annoying af and deserves everythin i said
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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