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The question you should be asking is: would execs still exist? And we know the answer to this from before the advent of corporations: yes, just as tycoons and barons with barely any checks on their political and financial power instead of as execs.
> with barely any checks on their political and financial power I fail to see the difference?
Clearly the recent 1.8B Euro fine the EU levied against Apple didn't send a message. Perhaps the EU needs to ratchet it up by an order of magnitude.
More likely, Apple needs to withdraw entirely from the EU and see what happens.
Most people would understand that these huge, aggressive corporates must be brought to heel. The sooner the EU establishes credibility in this respect, the sooner we all win.
Even setting aside the dubious morality of Apple's rules on iOS, I feel like I'm going insane watching Apple be maximally aggressive. The EU loves regulating! There's nothing they love more! It seems supremely unwise to give them additional excuses to do something they clearly want to do anyways.
> Apple be maximally aggressive From an observation standpoint seeing how Microsoft behaved in the 90's and onward, they (Apple) are behaving very similarly - almost exactly with what MS did for Windows back then. I have a growing distaste for Apple corporate/mgmt each day even though I am surrounded by their devices.
They will get away with this, we let them. They have no incentive to be better.
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What if, and hear me out, execs could go to jail instead of just their company paying fines as if they're parking tickets? Would they still be as cocky?
> execs could go to jail instead of just their company paying fines as if they're parking tickets? You want to send an executive to jail for cancelling a contract? I’d be curious for a jurisdiction to try this. In my opinion, I wouldn’t want to do business in a place where commercial disputes can be twisted by a political insider into jail time.
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The sooner this "ecosystem" crap dies, the better. The sooner not needing Apple dev tools or an Apple developer account to make software for an Apple device, the better. The sooner I can use my Apple Watch with an Android phone, the better. The sooner Apple stops (basically) requiring me to use icloud instead of literally any other better, cheaper, higher performance cloud service for my photos, videos, settings, and…
They went from making premium products to buggy objects filled with ads
But buggy software filled with ads. Yes. That much I agree with!
I have an android phone (galaxy fold 4) that I've been using as a secondary for like 14 months now. When my iPhone XS finally developed a swelling battery, I decided to retire it and switch the GF4 to my primary phone. I've been bouncing between Android and iOS for many years, but this time I felt a little bit heartbroken.....
One of the reasons I like using iPhones is you can send & receive sms/imessage on a Mac. But if you use the google messages app on an android phone, you can use a webapp on any computer (any OS) that IMHO works better (kind of). For one, it works on anything!
For another: MS Windows' link-to-phone thing is pretty sweet.
For another: I like the android/samsung oneUI way of handling phone calls. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's way less obnoxious. Especially because the speakerphone button ACTUALLY JUST WORKS! At some point iOS decided to make that button pop up a menu. Caller ID also works... and the scam phonecall blacklist thing works WAAAAY better on Android.
I still don't like any other OS as much as I like MacOS, but I miss the days of 10.4/10.5/10.6... it feels like the OS has gotten heavily enshittified since then. Honestly it feels more like Windows XP lol. I blame it all on Notification Center. Notification Center is a badly programmed turd. It steals focus, the hotkeys don't work right and aren't obvious, the notifications are like constant nags and you generally have to opt out of them instead of opting into them.... I just fucking hate it.
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Apple has been dragged kicking and screaming into more consumer friendly positions since the iPhone was released. It took years for them to simply switch to a more open charging port standard.
Before the iPhone and maybe blackberry the majority of phones used random proprietary charger. The iPhone was the first mass market consumer phone to come with a cable that connected to a standard usb charger.
And had a device end connector that didn’t change every other model. Some phones used standard connectors for that but plenty didn’t, and manufacturers would sometimes change the connector without rhyme or reason.
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Do you also not drive a car in a place where your driving can be twisted into jail time when you hurt people? Why does the concept of personal responsibility for decisions insult you so deeply?
> Do you also not drive a car in a place where your driving can be twisted into jail time when you hurt people? If you believe figurative and actual violence are identical, this analogy makes sense.