Apple’s most valuable intangible asset isn’t its patents or copyrights - it’s an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple’s shareholders.

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  • ElSupreme@mastodon.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr

    Stupid anecdote but…

    I’m on a pickup soccer group iMessge. They wouldn’t let me join due to the bubble colors going blue/green (I wouldn’t know or notice as I never use Apple stuff). I had someone volunteer to be my intermediary and let me know when when who was in for 8 months.

    Eventually I found an iPhone someone was willing to give me and I only use it for that group text now.