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mission_failed commented on US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case ft.com/content/f6e84608-e... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

Workaccount2 · a year ago

At least be intellectually honest here

Ads might suck a lot, but you are also not entitled to free content.

mission_failed · a year ago

Ads force you to pay for some thing

Actually no, it's worse. Ad companies take everything they can from you using any method they can including monitoring everything you browse or watch on TV or say near your phone or TV or in your car or what you look at in every shop or what you buy or who you chat to, compile massive secret databases and sell 'you' to anyone willing to pay, regardless of what the information is used for.

mission_failed commented on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose techcrunch.com/2024/02/15... · Posted by u/M2Ys4U

deminature · 2 years ago

It's only turned really cynical under Cook, chargers no longer included, cables sold separately from chargers to nickel and dime customers, refusal to adopt standards like USB-C unless threatened in court, refusing to pay patent license fee for blood O2 monitoring on the Apple Watch and trying to scalp all the talent from the company instead, anti-competitive behavior in the EU. Jobs version of Apple was pretty benign compared to the win-at-any-cost Cook version of Apple.

mission_failed · 2 years ago

Nonsense. Adobe had a flash to ios system ready to go to allow all flash apps to run, and Jobs deliberately blocked it from working, leading to the eventual death of flash.

Jobs was one of the main bastards behind screwing over engineer's pay.

Under Jobs we had soldered ram and ridiculous upgrade prices, changing magsafe port sizes just because, dropping OS support for official Apple modems when the majority of the world still had dialup, flaking cases and dodgy screens and phones that have to be held the right way, water sensors that react to humidity and void warranty, locking down ios upgrades to prevent downgrading, ebook price fixing...

mission_failed commented on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boein... · Posted by u/ephesee

zitterbewegung · 2 years ago

This is sort of ironic because they asked to bypass some safety checks on the 737 max 7 recently. Note this is a different model. EDIT: The bypass is about the deicer. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

mission_failed · 2 years ago

It's not a safety check bypass. Boeing wants to make pilots responsible for turning off the deicer within 5 min of ice disappearing to prevent the flawed engines breaking apart in flight.

mission_failed commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88

Reason077 · 2 years ago

> "We will know EVs have arrived when Americans in the mountain west start trading their Subarus for Teslas."

The sort of people who used to buy brand-new Subarus are already buying Teslas.

The people who buy used Subarus will be buying Teslas (and other EVs) in 5-10 years time when they're going cheap enough on the resale market.

mission_failed · 2 years ago

Why would anyone buy a used Tesla when 1st buyers already have issues getting dying batteries replaced?

mission_failed commented on US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect arstechnica.com/apple/202... · Posted by u/blueblueue

manderley · 2 years ago

But that wouldn't vanish the patent issue?

mission_failed · 2 years ago

It is wouldn't, but the ITC ruling is quicker to get than going to court for patent issues.

Which is exactly why Apple uses import bans to screw with competitors importing headphones.

mission_failed commented on The right to use adblockers fsfe.org/news/2023/news-2... · Posted by u/jrepinc

kleiba · 2 years ago

> the court nevertheless preserved Axel Springer’s right to exclude users with an activated adblocker from accessing its content

I actually think this is fair, and I say that as someone who has been using adblockers since the dawn of time and couldn't imagine using a webbrowser without it.

I believe the court has decided absolutely sanely for one: it should be my choice as an internet user whether I want to be exposed ot ads or not. In my case: no way, Jose. And to those who make the argument that a lot of what the internet offers todays would be unsustainable without the ad revenue, I say that although you may think that you cannot live without this or that or the other on the internet, let me reassure you: you can. Everything on the internet is expendable. Trust me. Yes, even TikTok, son. Heck, most of what you're in love with today wasn't even there 10 years ago.

It may come in as a surprise to some but yes, you can have a life without the internet. And to be honest, I'd rather lose some conveniences if the alternative is this absolute insanity that is today's web without an adblocker.

But if content providers do not want to give me their stuff unless I watch their ads, I think that's fine. It's your right to do that. Just don't think that I am going to turn off the adblocker for you as a consequence. Much more likely, I'm just going to go somewhere else for my kick.

mission_failed · 2 years ago

There is a grey area though when a company becomes the defacto monopoly over a service. Google and Microsoft email both have history of blocking email from other providers and have created a landscape where trying to run your own email server is a nightmare. But should they be able to refuse service to you if you block ads?

mission_failed commented on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access techcrunch.com/2023/12/08... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

cqqxo4zV46cp · 2 years ago

Let’s be clear here: Apple not yet implementing RCS aside, the experience is horrible because SMS/MMS are horrible.

mission_failed · 2 years ago

I can send the same mms from Android to Android and Apple recipients and they receive the same media. Yet sending from Apple to both the Apple users get good quality and Android Apple deliberately sends pixelated rubbish.

mission_failed commented on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access techcrunch.com/2023/12/08... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

StressedDev · 2 years ago

One thing which is really confusing is why are Android users obsessed with iMessage? Android users can send text messages to iPhones, the can call iPhone users, and they can use third party messaging apps to communicate with iPhone users.

It really isn’t clear to me why so many people are so angry they cannot use iMessage on Android.

mission_failed · 2 years ago

Because Apple deliberately screws with messages to non Apple users. Every video my family sends to me is low res heavily pixelated trash, to the point that you can't even recognise faces.

mission_failed commented on Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/toss1

hospitalJail · 2 years ago

My wife owns a company, it boggles my mind how the employees underestimate their strength.

They work for fractions and they are necessary for the company.

If a worker knows an owner is desperate, the worker can win. The opposite is true too.

mission_failed · 2 years ago

An individual has families to feed and mortgages to pay

mission_failed commented on Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

mission_failed · 2 years ago

How is this not an abuse of market power where the Google controlled app store allows other browsers to be banned for reasons that their own browser would never be automatically banned for?

If Windows automatically started blocking access to Chrome for up to 2 weeks at time while Google appealed false take downs everyone would be flipping their shit, including governments and justice departments