Commission a statue for them if you want. What is this parasocial relationship some people have with fiscal entities?
It's all incredibly sad.
There's nothing "high status" in having advertisements in the Settings app.
Apple Music and Apple TV+, sure.
But the 30% from Spotify and Netfix, and other shenanigans... not so much :/
New technology, unbridled, inevitably reaches a point where its negatives become clear to society at large. The printing press is regulated, cars are regulated, nuclear energy is regulated - because society recognized that we can't just let anyone build reactors in their sheds. Internet tech has probably reached that point.
Nor do I care about greasing up anybody on here; you're all strangers to me and I'd like to keep it that way.
My opinions are well thought out and principled; yours are obviously just the product of greedy self interest.
I can’t stand that kind of rhetoric.
There is the same problem with NVIDIA, all NVIDIA threads eventually devolve into "people too dumb to buy AMD like me" as well, but, with apple there isn't even a slope, it's right into it from the outset.
We have just utterly normalized this sort of conduct from some of these fanboys to the point where it doesn't even register with most people. We just have taken it as the inherent nature of Android fans to be offensive like this.
Perhaps it is their nature. People with poor social skills self-selecting to the nerdy phone, etc. I have been leaning more and more to this theory after seeing it in thread after thread after thread - people simply cannot restrain themselves even here on HN. But oh gosh you can't say those things back! how uncivil! how dare I soil our sacred discourse of "brainless sheeple buying it for the blue bubbles" etc.
But there's no reason for the rest of us to tolerate it. It's shitty discourse. But it's so utterly normalized that everyone just shrugs and looks past it.
And I'm not suggesting I have a relationship with any of them, parasocial or otherwise.
I wasn't trying to suggest we treat them like people or put them above us or give them a pass... I simply meant that getting rid of them completely could possibly eliminate the problem being discussed, but would also throw out a lot of value that they created and I didn't think that was the best solution.
America’s relationship with the tech giants is distinct from Europe’s. We can directly regulate them, if we want to. And our cities are littered with buildings and institutions named after their founders and senior leadership, as well as start-ups seeded by their cash and alumni. We see tremendous side-channel benefits, in other words, from that wealth.
Europe, not as much. Because the founders aren’t there. That is in part due to Europeans’ aversion to big business—if you don’t like big businesses you won’t have them homegrown. (Exception for industrial companies in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.) But it’s also because American companies have been taking advantage of its until-recent regulatory weakness.
That's not true. If you look at a list of largest US companies (e.g. by revenue) this list is quite diversified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t...
Spans retail, petroleum, tech, healthcare, insurance, automotive, telecommunications, financials, food, transportation, media, consumer products, etc.
> The biggest chemical and pharmaceutical industry is in Europe
Top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world:
1) Pfizer (US)
2) Merck (US)
3) AbbVie (US)
4) Janssen (US)
5) Novartis (Switzerland)
6) Roche (Switzerland)
7) Bristol Myers Squibb (US)
8) Sanofi (France)
9) AstraZeneca (UK)
10) GSK (UK)
https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/2023-pharma-50-largest-c...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by...