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Apple vs the Law

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377 points tempodox | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 06:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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nntwozz ◴[11 Jul 25 10:36 UTC] No.44530579[source]▶
I dream of an alternate reality where Steve Jobs makes snide remarks about politics, sets things right with the App Store (worldwide), Siri, Ai and the lackluster UI and quality control of software lately. Steve would get on top of things and speak his mind and we were all better off for it.

There's a severe lack of character in Tim Cook, I think the best thing to come out under his reign is the M-series hardware and return to sane computer design. He's timid, and his penny pinching fuckery is costing Apple a lot of goodwill that's a lot more precious and harder to gain back.

Maybe it's a shareholder problem, whatever—the early 2000's spirit of Apple was splendid.

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1. jeroenhd ◴[11 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44533040[source]▶
Steve Jobs was an asshat and the restrictions Apple puts on their software are exactly in line with what he would've done. He was firmly against third party apps on the iPhone in the first place and had to be convinced to permit it. Everything Apple is doing right now is in line with what Apple was doing when Jobs was still around. He would've had plenty to talk about, but none of it would be about no longer infringing users' rights.

Back in the early 2000's when Apple was still the cool, alternative, underdog computer company, it did things very differently, but for the same reason as it always did: make a profit.