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no love for apple but what has meta done that was good let alone great in ever
and why did he throw away mainstream appeal just so he could go on a losers talk show only nazis listen to?
M-series chip might be the biggest leap in newer time in computers. I think that’s pretty well made by Apple at least.
What did Meta innovate? AI profiles?
They’ve made great innovations in creating right wing echo chambers.
Not even Twitter can keep up
The only place Meta innovates is in data-mining.
Considering the latest changes at Meta, it seems their latest innovation is to transform social media into antisocial media.
antisocial media.
always_has_been.meme
Avatar…legs!! 😆
Says the guy that won’t allow Meta Quest developers the same level of access to their own hardware. Example: How would someone develop a 3rd party controller for the Quest VR headsets? You can’t. They haven’t exposed that API (or the cameras fully!).
They don’t even let you set the clock on your Quest headset! Need to change timezones? Factory Reset
Just because meta sucks doesn’t let apple off the hook for anticompetitive behavior
Zuck is fine with anticompetitive actions, he just thinks you need to InOvAtE to earn the right.
“Competition is for losers” lecture by Peter Thiel at Stanford lays out very clearly that none of these mfers actually wants competition once they dominate an industry.
everyone likes to point at 1984 and the dystopian future but I disagree. I’m of the opinion that the message of that story is more directed to the people who conformed and end up at the bottom of the food chain, locked in a hell of their own choices.
The real inspiration for 1984 is Jack London’s The Iron Heel
it’s so absolutely on point about our lives right now under capitalism and these ultra rich assholes.
Published in 1908 and never more accurate about the world today than anything I have ever read.
Added to my Libby queue - I love our public library system
I am so down to read that. Thx for the book rec
Oooo who has more money to throw at chancellor trump to make sure their business becomes the Brawndo of the new age???
Who cares?
I mean, he’s the wrong guy to call this out, and he and Meta are a cancer on society, but he’s still not wrong. It is bullshit. And it’s worth calling out in front of millions of people.
I thought it was a good read about the current state of technology, so I posted it in a technology community.
Fuck me, right?
The current state of technology is some jerkwad yammering with another jagoff? No, that’s not the state of technology.
Sadly, it is.
What’s really rich about Meta and Zuckerberg’s incessant complaining about being restricted by Apple’s rules for third party software on Apple’s platforms is that Meta doesn’t allow third parties any sort of access to their successful platforms.
This is a bit of a false equivalency; “Apple’s” successful platform is a general-purpose computing device owned by the user while Meta’s are hosted services.
These traditionally have different expectations, with game consoles being the exception. Occulus devices seem more like game consoles to me, while iPhones are closer to general-purpose computers with a few weird restrictions. I don’t like either, but I see game consoles as less problematic because their use case isn’t important.
If you go by usage, I’d say the iPhone is primarily an entertainment device.
Meta has been promoting their Quest 3 AR desktop mode for productivity.
By time spent, the iPhone is probably used for media consumption more than anything else, but media consumption is not just entertainment.
Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp are important. Imagine if Gmail didn’t allow you to use other email clients, you had to use a google made app or the web interface. Would that be a write-off as “not important”?
I did not say that they’re not important. I said that they’re hosted services, which traditionally don’t have the same expectation of user control as computers that users own.
Oh I thought it wasn’t that great ? Now it is an amazing general-purpose computing device owned by many.
Huh.
If there is going be insistence on platforms being open there shouldn’t be these distinctions.
All of these devices are capable of general purpose computing at a hardware level, phones, tablets, PCs, headsets are now very similar and generalised in that regard. I don’t see why a phone platform should be forced to be open while a games console gets to remain closed, when there is now only a hair’s breadth separating an Xbox from a Windows PC.
Jfc Christ jow many more months of fake news letting know that we got a new oligarch clan in in charge…
Hey pedons say hi to the new boss, same as old boss, take your pants off.
Isn’t the daringfireball blog a de facto front for Apple PR?
Yes.
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
A guy who nearly always defends Apple’s controversial decisions. It’s probably not reasonable to treat him as neutral or fair in a dispute between Apple and any other entity.
Hey are you that flashlight guy
I do review flashlights.
Oh no, a guy has an opinion! Get him!
It’s fine that he has an opinion. It’s even fine that he’s a fanboy, but important for people evaluating what he says about Apple to know that he has a decades long record of being barely more neutral than the company’s PR department.
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
That “guy” is among the best known die hard Apple fanboys.
