• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Apple will never do anything for any other reasons besides: regulation and profit. They try and foster this image of humanitarianism and ethics, but meanwhile they build everything in sweatshops and make their own “standards” so that their loyal customers can only use the functions they need by purchasing additional dongles.

    I’m happy that they were forced into an actual standard, but I’ve already heard at least two apple users IRL claiming that USB-C is inferior for [insert random reasoning here]. Apple has cultivated the idea that they are above standards for a long time and it will take a long time to break.

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      9 months ago

      Apple fanboys are the most frustrating people to talk to.

      They find any illogical reason to justify what apple does.

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      9 months ago

      The only reason they pass on an image of ethical environmentaly friendly company is because its good for business. People like that shit the products are good people buy. Its that simple. Companies give no shit about people or the planet.

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        9 months ago

        Apple is a corporation with a market cap that rivals the GDP of France and a net income that rivals the GDP of Qatar. That much capital consolidated within a singular private entity doesn’t just make them any other company. Their profit seeking is wildly, wildly different than a vast majority of any other company today.

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          9 months ago

          Get your head out of your ass. ALL companies will never do anything for any other reason besides profit. The size of said company doesn’t matter. A small company will fuck over its customers just as quickly if you let them.

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            9 months ago

            This is just the “both sides of the same” argument with different dressing.

            It’s as false here as it is there. So you’re going to tell me a company like fairphone is as unethical as Apple or Samsung?

            Yes of course they work with two completely different yields but that’s really the point The only way you can get to that yield is to be unethical so choose smaller brands choose ones that make decisions you agree with and help them grow.

            There is no completely ethical capitalism but there definitely are choices that get us somewhere better.