I can live with most of the other stuff, since the quality is good and they are hassle-free devices with Unix-like conventions, they last long, feel fantastic to use; Despite the price, despite the ring-kissing of Trump, despite being a mega corporate spreading its capitalistic cancer across the globe… all because the alternatives have been even worse.
Union busting is where I draw the line though, no matter if it’s in the sale or manufacturing or design side or whatever. This is the first one I hear about, I’ve not been aware of any earlier instances, mostly because I don’t follow stuff so tightly, I am almost certain it has happened before, but now that I have it in front of my eyes I can no longer abide it in my blissful ignorance.
This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today.
I encourage others to consider the same.
Not really sure what I’ll do after these current devices die on me, but now it’s clear to me it can’t be apple. Google’s been dead to me a long time, same for Sony, Samsung, most other big players.
I guess we’ll see what the landscape is like in 5 years.
This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today. I encourage others to consider the same.
I mean I’ve never been an Apple customer. At least not since the OG iPods. But what company are you going to move to that wouldn’t do the exact same thing in that situation?
Apple is uniquely shitty in having endless contempt for their own customers, which is why I’ve always avoided them. But this just seems like kind of a weird “last straw”. But hey, anyone boycotting Apple has my support.
My industry has a lot of Apple laptop users for the reasons you mention. Every time I pull out my Zenbook Duo, I hear converts in the making. Sure, it’s a bit thick, but it runs Linux great and has two monitors in a portable platform with a good battery.
Software security is not their top priority if the discussion with the Graphene OS project is anything to go by. Not necessarily a deal breaker but something you may want to know.
I can live with most of the other stuff, since the quality is good and they are hassle-free devices with Unix-like conventions, they last long, feel fantastic to use; Despite the price, despite the ring-kissing of Trump, despite being a mega corporate spreading its capitalistic cancer across the globe… all because the alternatives have been even worse.
Union busting is where I draw the line though, no matter if it’s in the sale or manufacturing or design side or whatever. This is the first one I hear about, I’ve not been aware of any earlier instances, mostly because I don’t follow stuff so tightly, I am almost certain it has happened before, but now that I have it in front of my eyes I can no longer abide it in my blissful ignorance.
This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today.
I encourage others to consider the same.
Not really sure what I’ll do after these current devices die on me, but now it’s clear to me it can’t be apple. Google’s been dead to me a long time, same for Sony, Samsung, most other big players.
I guess we’ll see what the landscape is like in 5 years.
Fuck this. Fuck apple. Fuck me.
I mean I’ve never been an Apple customer. At least not since the OG iPods. But what company are you going to move to that wouldn’t do the exact same thing in that situation?
Apple is uniquely shitty in having endless contempt for their own customers, which is why I’ve always avoided them. But this just seems like kind of a weird “last straw”. But hey, anyone boycotting Apple has my support.
mostly thier walled garden kept people away, but they dumbed it down enough for people to get addicted to it.
My industry has a lot of Apple laptop users for the reasons you mention. Every time I pull out my Zenbook Duo, I hear converts in the making. Sure, it’s a bit thick, but it runs Linux great and has two monitors in a portable platform with a good battery.
Consider Fairphone. You pay a bit more for mid tier device, but hopefully (and so far seemingly) the money is being well spent.
Software security is not their top priority if the discussion with the Graphene OS project is anything to go by. Not necessarily a deal breaker but something you may want to know.
Is that info from the latest Motorola collab? I heard about the beef between GOS and e/os, but nothing directly about Fairphone itself.
It take it from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361352
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We have different lines, but yours is respectable. It’s sad that Android is also enshitifying.
a bit late, but never too late
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Android is Google, not MS. Not much better.
Nah ,swith to grapheneOS