If you won’t say it, I will: Apple is wrong for what they’re doing.
These are tools that should be serving their users, not their creators.
These are tools that should be serving their users, not their creators.
A task it can do, but choose to do a different task, that is better in the intereet of the corporation.
It is a quite harmles example, but it is zelling of the general state of things and where we are heading.
If I buy a device I assume I own it. Thats how it should be. Not that I rent it and the rules to rent change all the time.
The reasonable expectation is that a digital assistant will work for its user and not the corporation that sold it. The corporation is trading on this expectation to exploit its users.
"If you can't freely do anything on the device you own, you're the one owned."
The first step to a better world is acknowledging the prime driver of self interest in human action and designing systems that support that while protecting from too much power. This historically meant strong property rights, strong speech rights and strong antitrust regulation. Wishing that someone would exercise their property and speech rights differently isn't an effective system and regulating them into right think and right action robs us of innovation because there's no reason for anyone to put in the extra effort to make something better beyond trivial improvements since they won't get to keep that benefit while they pay the cost of development, it is far easier to just stay mediocre and not stick your head out.