flyby lunch-break posting eeee

[fiachairecht]

Hi new people! I would say I'm pleased the blue hellsite is dying because I've never liked it, but honestly the way in which it's dying is SO worrying in terms of what it means about Apple's use of the app store to control huge swathes of the internet it has no right to, so actually I'm right bloody pissed. However! I am glad you are here! I hope you like Dreamwidth! Drop a note here or on my sticky post to say hi and introduce yourself, I should probably update it for real when I'm off my phone but for now, have this!

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[acequeenking]

I'm just gonna toss this as evidence #0233505 that Apple is an awful company and should not be supported. I am not sure what can be done about it beyond boycotting their products. :(

[fiachairecht]

Yeahhh I'm unfortunately not sure there's a really good answer to that. They're superficially easy to boycott because their hardware is such a closed ecosystem, but the things that allowed them to get so big/keep them so big - the desire for something that 'just works', the idea of an iphone specifically as a status/class symbol - are society-wide things it takes more than just buying an android phone to combat :|