Plenty of Patriot Front recruitment stickers with URLs, some of which say things about traditional family values. Some “White Lives Matter” stickers with URLs and QR codes which I haven’t opened. Some that just outright say “I hate” followed by racist slurs along with a swastika hidden behind various popular cartoon characters like Hello Kitty and Peter Griffin. Today I saw a confederate flag sticker for the first time. They’re not specific enough to identify who might be putting them up.

I think you’re just proving that it is entirely subjective. If it was objectively an inferior experience, I’m confident they wouldn’t be nearly as popular as they are. I get that there are plenty of people who believe firmly that total control over their own electronics is the best experience, and I can understand that. I enjoy tinkering in a Linux machine as much as any Lemmy user. However the vast majority of people do not want to be overwhelmed with the amount of ways they can configure their devices to the point that they can’t discern one choice from another. And my iPhone does exactly what I need it to just as much as my Android did.

Yeah, marketing is definitely part of it. They make their devices sound, look, and appear like they’re some sort of luxury experience. But there’s definitely something extremely smooth about the way Apple’s suite of software works with their hardware, and how their hardware works with each other, and I appreciate that for what it is.

The crux of this suit seems to be that the DOJ believes that Apple needs to make its hardware fair to everyone that can develop on it, and make its software fair to all possible hardware that can run it, which is particularly interesting because Apple’s main product seems to be a pleasant and easy user experience that cuts through the physical barriers of the pieces of hardware it sells. And part of that user experience is the sense of security that is supposed to come with knowing that Apple is (more or less) able to decide who is allowed to access important, secure elements of their hardware.

On the software side of things, I don’t fully understand why or how the DOJ could force Apple to develop better integration support for cross-vendor hardware usage? Why do they need to go the extra mile to make an Apple Watch work well with an Android phone? Because the DOJ says so? I mean, sure I guess that would be better for everyone but it’s a weird thing to require.

Objectively superior? Superior user experience is entirely subjective, but that is the main selling point of almost everything Apple has done in the last 17 years

I imagine their surprise came across kind of like this

“what is this? I bought a xbox card! what is this? i don’t even know what that is!”

“No frills diner food” is exactly what the fuck I want for breakfast. And this place is absolutely within breakfast time-driving range! Thank you!

Alt title: Reddit looking to steal value from their millions of free users

“Early Access Hardware” is a new one lol

Ultron, is that you?

I’m like 99% sure “enshittification” is just a code word for “capitalism”

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Make that 100% sure.

And I’m not too happy with how capitalism chows down on the poor like the fucking Oroborus it is yet here we fuckin are.

Christmas eve snow? Where?

You ever heard the term NIMBY before?