Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The Cult of Mac; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/
#Pluralistic
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Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The Cult of Mac; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/
#Pluralistic
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Apple is not a sainted actor, but they were the ones that showed that TikTok was sending your clipboard to their servers many times a second and stopped it.
Show me a way that only small actors with limited reach can create boutique app stores and I’d be onboard, but third-party app stores sound to me exactly like airline deregulation and “Financial Services Modernization” and I fear the actions of the rich and powerful more than I anticipate the opportunities of an open installer.
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
I don’t think the world should be forced to use closed ecosystems, but I think there are places where I prefer a closed ecosystem. I’d prefer it if my closed phone platform was controlled by a liberal democracy rather than a C-Corp, but functional trustworthy mass institutions are hard to come by these days. But that’s another problem and not a technology one.
@joshrivers@techhub.social Great! No one in the entire universe believes that you should have to use an app store other than Apple’s.
Unless by “I think there are places where I prefer a closed ecosystem” you mean “I think there are places where I prefer that everyone else should prefer a closed ecosystem.”
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
I bought a house in a place where everyone is required to meet a fire code, vaccinate their kids before they attend the school, and the grocery cannot knowingly sell food infected with E. Coli. I do not believe the entire world should be forced to live under my neighborhood rules, but I believe no one in the world has the right to build a firetrap housing unvaccinated children that sell garden food grown in their own fertilizer in my neighborhood.
My phone is the one device I own trusted by my employer to connect to their network and download their content. It is the one platform I trust to have my parents manage their banking. There were rules when we bought them, and I don’t think making the platform cheaper for suppliers at the expense of users is 🌹. It smells like something else.