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Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

I feel vindicated for when I said that the moment Apple's line stops growing, they'll resort to monetizing their users like the rest of big-tech to increase their shareholder returns, and everyone here was like "Nooo, my sweet innocent publicly traded trillion dollar corporation would never betray me like that". Give it a few more years love, now they're boiling the frog.

Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by rafaelmn »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

I feel vindicated for when I said that the moment Apple's line stops growing, they'll resort to monetizing their users like the rest of big-tech to increase their shareholder returns, and everyone here was like "Nooo, my sweet innocent publicly traded trillion dollar corporation would never betray me like that" . Give it a few more years love, now they're boiling the frog.

What do you mean start monetizing ? I get adds for their Apple Arcade trial on top of my iOS settings main screen.

I really hate Apple - but what's stopping me from moving out of the ecosystem is that nobody else builds shit that works and is on same level. The M Pro series processor is only touchable by that one AMD chip you can't get anywhere. Windows is garbage and Linux is a part time job. Android is even worse in terms of spam and jank, and the only ecosystem that works is Google - where if you get locked out - you're just praying to HN/Google contacts that you didn't lose your access.

Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by eviks »

> destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, to get users to believe that it’s private. That Apple can be trusted in ways that other “big tech” companies cannot.

What's the downside of consumers getting their perceptions closer aligned with reality? Which side are you on?

Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by denkmoon »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

I feel vindicated for when I said that the moment Apple's line stops growing, they'll resort to monetizing their users like the rest of big-tech to increase their shareholder returns, and everyone here was like "Nooo, my sweet innocent publicly traded trillion dollar corporation would never betray me like that" . Give it a few more years love, now they're boiling the frog.

Ah, sweet vindication. Eventually the only company that doesn't do (all the) bad thing will start doing bad thing.

What you say seems likely, but then what. Should I throw my phone in the bin because it might be bad in the future, as opposed to being actually bad now?

Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by jb1991 »

rafaelmn wrote: post #6
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

I feel vindicated for when I said that the moment Apple's line stops growing, they'll resort to monetizing their users like the rest of big-tech to increase their shareholder returns, and everyone here was like "Nooo, my sweet innocent publicly traded trillion dollar corporation would never betray me like that" . Give it a few more years love, now they're boiling the frog.

What do you mean start monetizing ? I get adds for their Apple Arcade trial on top of my iOS settings main screen. I really hate Apple - but what's stopping me from moving out of the ecosystem is that nobody else builds shit that works and is on same level. The M Pro series processor is only touchable by that one AMD chip you can't get anywhere. Windows is garbage and Linux is a part time job. Android is even worse i…

You are correct that, just like in politics, you have to pick the best among problematic choices, which will often be Apple.

Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by eptcyka »

eviks wrote: post #7

> destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, to get users to believe that it’s private. That Apple can be trusted in ways that other “big tech” companies cannot. What's the downside of consumers getting their perceptions closer aligned with reality? Which side are you on?

John Gruber has long been an Apple advocate, not saying this to detract from this post, but rather to add context to those who do not know this.
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