Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives.
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Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:
Naked Power - Infrequently Noted
Apple and Google's app stores stand for nothing and will stand up to no-one. Good riddance.
Infrequently Noted (infrequently.org)
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Apple and Google's quisling era unearths the lies they've told to justify monopoly power over software for the most consequential computing platforms of our lives. If the app stores can't move against Musk/Grok, they should not be trusted with any of the powers they demand:
Naked Power - Infrequently Noted
Apple and Google's app stores stand for nothing and will stand up to no-one. Good riddance.
Infrequently Noted (infrequently.org)
I quote @pluralistic here because his work has helped us all understand how technically and ethically threadbare the app store justifications are. Now that they're silent in the face of widespread, above-the-fold abuse of women and girls, the jig is well and truly up. Tim and Sundar's next arguments before any self-respecting regulator are forfeit.
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I quote @pluralistic here because his work has helped us all understand how technically and ethically threadbare the app store justifications are. Now that they're silent in the face of widespread, above-the-fold abuse of women and girls, the jig is well and truly up. Tim and Sundar's next arguments before any self-respecting regulator are forfeit.
@pluralistic At root, this is about power structures. Apple and Google are now complicit in the authoritarian system, roped into it through incremental self-deceptions. A lust for illegitimate power led to state capture to avoid regulation. From there the logic of user abuse is self-fulfilling.
As Samuel Bagg points out, this is *corruption*;
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