Because the economy growing didn’t mean people got wealthier. This time the capitol owners took all the benefits for themselves driving mass inequality and the end result is most people getting much poorer.
Economy growth without more equal benefits isn’t useful to most people. The people are still in recession.
Yep. We’re in the actual late stage capitalism — the majority of politicians are full-blown corporate sociopaths bought and paid for by the wealthy; so much so that most of them don’t even attempt to act competent anymore. “competition” is 1/10th what is was decades ago due to corporate expansion and consolidation/acquisition. Greedflation is extracting whatever value remains from the collapse of the middle class. Economic mobility has been destroyed across the developed world from decades of neoliberalism. Wealth inequality is higher than it was during the Great Depression, and the opportunity to own a home or provide for a family is non-viable without a significant reduction in quality of life/standard of living for the first time in at least a century. Automation and AI are rapidly advancing to completely devalue/replace human labor. There is a near scientific certainty that climate change will cause ecosystems and agriculture to collapse around the world, and billions to starve, sometime in the next 20-50 years.
If anyone wonders why people are not having in kids in 2023, I auto-assume they’re a complete simpleton dumb cunt or suffering dementia.
To bad the “open up” isn’t even a real “open up” under the iPhone. Until we can run unsigned code from any source without bullshit nothing really changed.
Apple could add a few warnings, make users use a computer to enable some kind of “developer mode” and accept the risks. Only apply the relaxed rules to binaries the user specifically whitelists etc. There are a lot of ways to make it secure and for what’s worth we had recent leaks of Chinese intelligence where they were able to infect iOS devices as it is right now.
People who don’t like it can vote with their wallet and buy something else.
I’m 100% happy with not running unsigned code on the most important device in my life that handles all banking and authentication.
Or Apple can release an entirely different OS build that sideloaders can use that also prohibits them from using any Apple apps or devices, what with being insecure and all.
People who think they’re sticking it to Apple are the fools.
I just don’t understand how you get to the idea that the phone you carry around is inherently any different than your computer, and that giving the option is inherently gonna compromise your security if you decide not to turn it on.
Quit your whataboutism. I never said Android has no malware. But it’s just plain untrue to believe Apple devices are immune to malware because software is signed.
No need to be an ass about it, it’s just a fundamental truth.
This goes beyond what “voting with your wallet” can accomplish. What Apple is doing is making everyone’s phones hostage of their central control and software. Android does this as well to a lesser and more manageable extent but it’s still wrong. Think about it, any of those devices running 100% offline / no access to their servers how long will they keep working , be able to open/install apps etc? This is a threat to democracies and the majority of people aren’t aware / don’t care about the long terms effects of their choices.
How different would be our world if IBM, Microsoft and Apple pulled this kind of frap on computers back then? Probably not as good as it is today, no Linux ever made (because the signed bootloader wouldn’t allow it) and with it half of the software innovation accomplished.
This is why governments should act and push those companies into behaving.
I think this is good, especially since most other brands have flopped hard in the tablet space.
Even my friends and family who have android phones have ipads because it’s such a good product with it’s peripherals versus the other devices in the market.
This is what happens when the EU decides that your phone should be more open and you get around it with cleaver lawyers and tactics instead of actually doing what’s right.
Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure.
Pretty cool. Now do it again! :) also this time its up to 30bil which will be much harder to sell to their investors. Next time its upnto 60bil. I really like this new law.
In case of an infringement, the Commission can impose fines of up to 10% of the company’s total worldwide turnover, which can go up to 20% in case of repeated infringement.
Okay, this good! It seams like they’ve created a (very good) law and also a way to enforce it
Amazing and terrifying that EU seems to be the only world government to actually stand up against this late stage capitalism dystopia.
These rules actually makes sense. They actually protect both consumers and other companies around the whole world. And most importantly; they tackle a real world problem head on.
It is though. Has a Parliament and like three Presidents. Makes rules that are enforceable across member states (admittedly by proxy mechanisms). It has elections. Even a shared army.
What else does it need to qualify as a government?
Makes rules that are enforceable across member states (admittedly by proxy mechanisms)
Those “proxy mechanisms” make things very different than a typical government. Also not everything that the parliaments says is required to be enforced in member states. A lot of the proposals are recommendations and even the ones that are actually about regulation have to be transposed into member state laws in some way those countries see fit and there’s a lot or margin there.
No, there isn’t. The founding treaties of the EU don’t allow for the creation of a European army as the EU is about peaceful economic cooperation and and also a bunch of other reasons.
Well they do some things right but you know they are also pretty dystopian as well, trying to ban encryption so they can have total surveillance over their citizens like china and what not. Just as bad as the usa in that regard!
trying to ban encryption so they can have total surveillance over their citizens
On the contrary, they are the first to enshrine it as a basic human right. Chat control got shut down so hard not even the EU legislature can pick it up again easily.
There are wannabe authoritarians everywhere, one of the functions of government is to stop them. Which kinda sorta works in the EU if you don’t look too far east.
I’ve seen a few lemmygrad users that aren’t tankies, but by far the majority are extremely opposed to the EU, NATO, etc. Nothing against you personally, just thought it was funny.
Thank you for being honest and not flaming, I can certainly appreciate that perspective. I must be jaded from seeing people equate the EU and NATO so often.
I am very chill. Admittedly, I haven’t seen the behaviour you describe, but I am aware of the anti-EU views some have. I am extremely pro EU and wish for it to eventually expand into a pan AfroEuroAsian union, but even with just EU expansion, or even without expansion, they desperately need to address the current voting system within the EU as an organization, AND they desperately need to give vote to Europeans. I appreciate many things they do, but I frequently feel like they’d benefit from having europeans voting on certain issues.
Nice to see a reasonably sized fine. In the US it would be like 5 million and they’d spend 10 times that fighting it in court and still not affect their profits for the month.
Not necessarily, it could be that if they put the work into something else instead they would’ve made more when you account for the fine, so it could still not be worth it compared to alternatives.
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