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who would win: evil corp edition (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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who would win meme format

[left side: apple]
expensive monetarily but petty in actions

[right side: openai]
open in name but closed in reality

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[–] words_number@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apple is exactly as shit as every other tech company, because they have to be in order to win the capitalism game.

But yeah, they sure have got a lot of zealots...

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.

(by Cory Doctorow, here's the recent article: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money )

[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

To think there was a time when IMO Apple could convince people with great products.

(Macintosh SE explodes in the background due to overheating)

Then again i‘ve mostly seen old Apple computers on Youtube.