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Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)
jfruhlinger writes "Think today's world, where Apple is the innovative underdog, Google is the company that does no evil, and Microsoft sits atop its throne as ruler of an evil empire. Will this state of affairs last forever? You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates. Don Reisinger muses on the fickleness of consumer loves and hates. 'It's that same [level of] success and its own questionable privacy practices that will lead to Google's PR downfall and propel it into a position of disdain going forward. Trust me, the future of Apple and Google may look bright from an economic standpoint, but these companies will be hated one day too. Sad, but true.'"
That's a common misconception about Christianity. The "neighbour" spoken of in the buy-bull meant members of the "in" group, i.e., fellow Jews. Nonmembers of the in-group were fair game. Questions about its historical accuracy aside, genocide against non-Jews, for example, was okay in the bible and even endorsed by the Judeo-Christian god. It follows that it was okay throughout history for good Christians to torture and kill Jews, Muslims, other non-Christians. It was even okay to behave badly toward those Christians not part of your inner circle (e.g., Catholics against Protestants).
So it is in Bush's America. Genocide against Muslims in Vietraq is okay. So is genocide against those in the path of Hurricane Katrina. Economic genocide against those Americans outside Bush's "in" group ("the haves and the have-mores," as he himself put it) is just fine. "Kenny-Boy" Lay, Dick Cheney and other members of the in-group are allowed to become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. Nonmembers, i.e., the other 99.99%, see their:
-- Pensions evaporated,
-- Access to health care shrunk if not eliminated outright,
-- Education systems gutted (No Child Left Behind, cuts to college financial aid),
-- Public utilities privatized and used as tools for private gain (Enron),
-- Job security eliminated and already thin worker protections slashed, and
-- Anyone who crosses them (Eliot Spitzer, Joe Wilson . . . ) pays the price.
I could go on, but you get the point. "Love your neighbour" doesn't mean what you think it does.
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No we hated Apple, Google for the "Apple Doomsday Clock" some time.
Apple is slowly becoming another Microsoft, which was the point of the parent article. Microsoft was once loved like Apple was back in the 1980's when IBM was the villain.
I have owned Macs before, my Amiga 1000 and 500 was a much better computer than the 68K Macs. The PowerMacs didn't really get good until the G4 and G5 were used, but then OSX got so bloated and Macs so expensive that Apple went the Intel route. Even 1G or 2G of RAM and Leopard still runs slow, too slow for my tastes. Now I look towards ReactOS replacing Windows XP or even using AROS or Haiku or Linux rather than Windows or OSX.
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Best-of-breed... oh please! Apple's MacOS didn't get flexible memory allocation and preemptive multitasking until even the fanbois started begging for modern underpinnings to the shiny UI. That company has been sucking on the Photoshop tit way too long.
Every company has "evil built right in." It's called capitalism.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.