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Apple Just Lost Me

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Re: Apple Just Lost Me

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I was hoping someone like Musk (who is temperamental) would tell them to spin on it (I know people here don't like him). Politicians tend to use Twitter, so they would be directly affected. The benefit of KF and 4chan telling them to stick it, is that it creates a precedent where most sites outside the UK can just ignore them. I think both KF and 4chan are going to the US courts to get the matter decided IIRC they ar…

Oh, it’s a joint lawsuit apparently. Didn’t know that thanks for that. I’d just get updates from pacer. 1:25-cv-2880 in the District of Columbia. I’m not super interested in this to go look today but leaving it here for future reference once there’s more filings and hearings in the case. This would eventually become “interesting” to me no matter who had raised the federal question(s). Personalities aside , I would ra…

I didn't know what pacer was. I will have a look at it. I prefer getting information from the source these days.

> Aside from being a “dick” I’ve already made the mistake of looking there for scoops and burned a few brain cells wading through wildly speculative legal interpretations from a crazed mob that has next to no basis in reality.

It is an old school forum. Lots of different personalities on there.

> I guess it has to be someone with standing to sue ofcom and tell them where to stick it and I’d have a really hard time pretending I don’t approve of cantankerous defenses of 1A.

I 100% agree.

Re: Apple Just Lost Me

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I found this to be a very odd and strange rant. The author's three issues with Apple are: 1. Gatekeeping. OK, fine, but at the very least this has been Apple's stance for a very long time now (the author talks about faxing credit card details), so it's not like it's something new. If you wanted full unfettered installation rights, Apple was never the company for you. And while I think it's fine to argue against Apple…

> 1. Gatekeeping. OK, fine

Proceeds to explain why your opinion is not "fine" but rather invalid, because Apple boiled you like a frog...

Every time someone mentions here that they're concerned macOS is becoming more like iOS, Apple apologists show up to explain how that's not actually happening. I guess now you guys have just accepted it.

Re: Apple Just Lost Me

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Apple is too big to get kicked from UK, actually corporations are already having more power than most of the governments.

Corporations are not powerful than the state. They wouldn't bother cosying up to various Prkme Minister and Presidents if that is the case.

Corporations are soft power 2.0

Re: Apple Just Lost Me

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Corporations are not powerful than the state. They wouldn't bother cosying up to various Prkme Minister and Presidents if that is the case.

Corporations are soft power 2.0

No they aren't.

I hate to make Game of Thrones references, but there is a scene where Little Finger said to Cersei "Knowledge is power" (in an attempt to blackmail her about her incestuous behaviour) and Cersei had Zombie Gregor choke him and told him "No power is power". Little Finger had lots of soft power and it meant nothing when comforted with hard power.

It illustrates that a simple fact that people like you and other don't appreciate that the state has the monopoly on aggression and they have the real power. That is why corporations cozy up to governments.

That is why every corporation will almost immediately implement any Byzantine bullshit that the State mandates. I am sure that you and others will point to a few exceptions where this didn't happen, but they rare and often done very strategically.

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