John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple
John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html
After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?
Without having read the actual lawsuit yet
Says it all
Cory is having none of this shit
The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur
Is Apple obligated to ship an iMessage client for other platforms? For free?
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Open secure messaging protocols with freely available and unencumbered specifications and even implementations are good, actually.
I wish XMPP or Matrix or whatthefuckever existed so that we didn't have to rely on fifteen fucking proprietary IM systems to communicate with an adequate portion of our friends.
Can we make it an outright criminal offense to ship a new messaging application without an accompanying RFC detailing the format? With aggravating circumstances if you outright forbid third party clients that end up being created anyway.
it's always great when these guys respond to well-established antitrust law by incorrecting the world on the concept of "competition" from first principles
Apple fanboys: "Apple has a singular, perfect vision for how people should interact with technology. I would get all my sensory organs replaced by Apple peripherals if I could. They should be allowed to trample us."
NB: apple has trampled over me but not my spirit
This fuckin guy.
Edit: iPhone user, I have iPads and Macs and AirPods and all that shit. But I also think the government is probably onto something here.
idk who this guy is, anyone feel like giving a primer?
Longtime Apple trufan, co-creator of markdown, and often-middling internet thonker
Occasionally has some good opinions but only occasionally, very much got blinders on a lot of the time
The least interesting member of the gruber family, they wrote him out of die hard 4.
Oh dear.
"The overriding gist of the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple brought to mind, for DF reader E.G., Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Despite being an enormous Vonnegut fan, I couldn’t recall reading it before. It’s so apt. As E.G. quipped in his email to me, “Only in making all products, services, and experiences equally bad, will we have equality and fairness.”"
I came here for his full-throated support of Apple Music staying installed no matter what and I am so sorely disappointed.