Are we seriously going to pretend that Google hasn’t been just as evil for years now? At least Apple is able to provide a halfway-decent UX…
Ugh, hard disagree on apple UX.
Dont defend either of them please.
If there were any alternative, we wouldn’t have these problems.
Google was only pro freedom and open source as long as it hurt Microsoft more than them.
That is not the case anymore.
Are we seriously going to pretend that a single person can be wholly evil? Much less a company of 200k people.Even if Google takes this huge step of requiring their blessing for every Android developer (which Apple has ALWAYS had on their side), they will still be better (by my estimation) along the freedom dimension than Apple. Maybe too far removed for my involvement, but better nonetheless.
edit: misread “just as evil [as Apple]”
On privacy, google is much worse
I would agree insomuch as Google’s privacy issues are better known.
Nonetheless, we are comparing two jail cells. One has a finger-puzzle that opens the cell-doors (and an obvious surveillance camera), and the other one is securely locked with a less-obvious/hidden camera (iphone backups)… and the issue at hand is akin to removing the finger-puzzle because the captives keep opening it to let baddies join them.
iphone cloud backups are encrypted, and can be turned off very easily. Local backups to a pc can also be encrypted if you want.
Encrypted doesnt necessarily matter. I dont trust apple to not give up the keys.
They’ve always refused in the past…
Because guess what? They don’t have them. They don’t want them. Apple’s business is selling hardware, not collecting your data that they would then be liable for. Their business model is not predicated on data mining and collection. Google’s is.
This is not to absolve Apple; they are after all a major corporation and therefore inherently evil prima facie. But I don’t worry about them selling or leaking my data.
That didn’t stop Apple from handing over backups to the FBI that were swiftly decrypted after several high profile incidents (like the San Bernadino shooting), and I assume it would be even less difficult for them to fork over info for another Snowden if they use Apple products.
Didn’t Apple deny the FBI access for the San Bernardino shooting?
Quick edit; yeah, you can stop spouting bullshit, the FBI hacked in WITHOUT Apple’s help.
What I’ll say in Apples defense is they largely are what they say they are. You may not like what Apple provides, which is fair, but at least you know what you’re getting.
I mean the reason Apple AI sucks is because they violated their users privacy way less than Google, which is, good? I guess?
Reminder that Orwell had an exclusively anti-Stallin grudge, was pro-British imperialism, and that 1984 barley qualifies as science fiction. Issac Asimov wrote a scathing review in the 80s.
anti stalin grudge
Which he picked up from a soviet commisar while fighting fascists in the 30s in spain. Known for his talent with grenades. Suffered sone pretty severe injuries.
pro british imperialism
Okay so i don’t know everything abput the man but did you read his account of being a colonialist shitbag ‘on the occasion of the killing of an elephant’? It’s not a fucking endorsement.
not SCIENCE fiction
Sure, yeah, psychology and sociology don’t count. Le’guinn never wrote a scifi novel except the fairy tale about the princess who didn’t understand the difference between general and special relativity, which was peak sci-fi.
It’s the lasers and rocket ships that make the stories good, not the new relations and forms of person and society rgat they enable stories of or lense a speculative technology might allow us to see ourselves through. Obviously. Star wars is the most sci-fi sci-fi because it has ALLTHETHINGS.
talking about how he sucked as a person to criticize an idea an author expressed, then citing asimov
So do you hate women and think rape is fine and asimov was just a cool guy, or are you the dumb kind of tankie who never learned to think for yourself and just repeats shit to sound smart and indicate group membership without ever actually understanding what any of it means?
I don’t know why people write these emotionally charged comments that are dripping with sarcasm. Your entire comment is a series of strawman misrepresentations that you’ve erected to unceremoniously “dunk” on the opposition instead of actually arguing with any nuance. You give one piece of evidence in your favor and conclude that you’ve had the final say on the matter. This sort of discourse boils down to “You’re an idiot!” … “No, YOU are!!”
My point is that Orwell is more anti-Stallin than pro-leftist. People on the left may be tempted to interpret Orwell as arguing against right-wing fascism. But he is actually depicting a fascistic socialism. This explains why our governments are so quick to hail 1984 as some literary achievement. In reality, the novel slows to a crawl in the middle and is not inventive at all; especially when compared to the great works of science fiction such as The Time Machine, The Dispossessed, Roadside Picnic, Necromancer, etc. (Manual surveillance of millions of people through their TVs? Seriously? 1984 is not fit to be compared with any of Ursula Le Guin’s works. As a fan of the genre, I question whether you actually read science fiction at all.)
By the tone of your comment I can see that you’re pretty entrenched in your position and don’t care about Orwell’s character or motivations. Everyone else can make up their own minds:
I want to take this apart piece by piece because i think every singke thing you say here is wrong, but reading this i get the impression you haven’t read a single fucking one of the things you’re talking about, including my comment.
Still skipping the asimov thing too, while you retreat into ‘rationality bro’ and defer to someone else.
You’re not correct, but you’re not even wrong; you’re just parroting.
I’ve read one of their links, and although it shows Orwell to be an asshole, racist, bigot, and anti-Stalin; it still doesn’t make sense as a ground for other statements, especially him being imperialist.
I would think that the whole thing comes from conflating communism and whatever the Soviets were doing, and if anyone thinks that USSR was not the heaven on earth, they are damned
Well yeah, communism is when stalin.
