Comment by bigyabai

Comment by bigyabai 21 hours ago

That's not an "obligatory HN dig" though, you're in-media-res watching X escape removal from the App Store and Play Store. Concepts like privacy, legality and high-quality software are all theater. We have no altruists defending these principles for us at Apple or Google.

Apple won't switch Google out as a provider for the same reason Google is your default search provider. They don't give a shit about how many advertisements you're shown. You are actually detached from 2026 software trends if you think Apple is going to give users significant backend choices. They're perfectly fine selling your attention to the highest bidder.

theshrike79 17 hours ago

There are second-order effects of Google or Apple removing Twitter from their stores.

Guess who's the bestie of Twitter's owner? Any clues? Could that be a vindictive old man with unlimited power and no checks and balances to temper his tantrums?

Of course they both WANT Twitter the fuck out of the store, but there are very very powerful people addicted to the app and what they can do with it.

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bigyabai 15 hours ago

That further proves my point that they are monopolies that cannot survive without protectionist intervention.

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- mschuster91 14 hours ago
  
  In the current US environment, no one can survive going against Trump, and as recently evidenced, this is meant literally.
  The US, for all intents and purposes, is now a kleptocracy. Rule of law, freedom of speech, even court orders, all of that doesn't matter any more in practice. There will always be some way for the federal government to strong-arm anyone into submission.
  
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  sandytoast 11 hours ago
  
  Not with that attitude they can’t. Let’s see what happens to the first person to call his bull shit. If jpow folds or is actually indicted, you may be right. Let’s see what happens with Exxon though i think they’re gonna bend the knee.
  
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  kshacker 13 hours ago
  
  I do not usually comment on politics but just this one time, and hopefully I can wordsmith it without taking a political stance.
  When Trump started his campaign, circa 2011 with the birth certificate, he did not know he will win or not, but he made it his life's mission.
  Countering him will take the same zeal. I know we have a precedence of presidents retiring, but unless Obama (and Hillary and Biden and Kamala) hits the streets as the leader of resistance, the resistance will be quelled easily by constant distracting. Yeah maybe AOC, maybe Bernie, maybe someone else, but no ... Trump is smart and dedicated (despite the useful idiot role he plays), he can not be countered by mid-term and full-term campaigns. We are not in Kansas any more. Been a while. The opposition needs a named resistance leader whose full time job is to engage Trump.
  
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  theshrike79 8 hours ago
  
  I'm not American, but in my opinion Newsom+AOC might have the zeal and voter base to MAYBE do something.
  Newsom (or his PR team) knows how to play the troll game correctly, hitting low blows and not sticking to the fucking high ground.
  AOC on the other hand will make the MAGA base _so_ irrationally angry they might do something actually stupid. She's also got Bernie's views, which might make America a place I want to visit some day in the next decade again. I've literally turned down all expenses paid company trips to USA a few times because I just don't want to risk either not getting into the country or not getting back.
  
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kennywinker 19 hours ago

Caveat: as long as it doesn’t feel like you’re being sold out.

Which is why privacy theatre was an excellent way to put it

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yunohn 19 hours ago

Apple’s various privileged device-level ads and instant-stop-on-cancel trials and special rules for notifications for their paid additional services like Fitness+, Music, Arcade, iCloud+, etc are all proof that they do not care about the user anymore.

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