At this point I am just waiting for the Treasury to inevitably get RansomWare'd.
SnotFlickerman
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I guess you can't infer that other people have their own opinions. The whole thing that started this was me having the opinion that you can't trust corporations to not change in the future.
You don't have to say certain things for me to be willing to make statements of my own opinion. That's how a conversation works but I guess you must not have a lot of those in real life.
Having an opinion and stating it isn't making a strawman.
At this point I'm just having fun pissing you off.
Other people having their own opinions isn't putting words in your mouth.
I'm definitely not the one being a tryhard here.
Also, Linux ain't safe from corporate influence when Linus dies, either.
I'm not the one defending a corporation that literally hid behind their CEOs coming out story to avoid bad press about their tax dodging... Tax dodging which helped them get their obscene warchest today. Apple isn't your friend and doesn't care that you exist, dude.
Cry more and go suck some more corporate dick while you're at it.
I love how useful Regex is. I hate writing Regex. Special shout out to anyone who can do it well.
To quote you:
I said they would not inject ads like this
And I'm saying you don't know that they won't do that in the future. But keep clarifying yourself more, I'm sure it will help clear it up.
That’s not how they operate.
That's literally the implication that I'm talking about that you say I'm projecting onto this. You don't know the future, that can change.
No, you implied that they'll never ever ever never ever in a million years turn to their ad business to supplant lost sales elsewhere and that related things couldn't happen to impact their sales. Which is a bogus and easily disproven line of thought.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue-worldwide/
They still have an ad business, and ads are what companies turn to when times get tough. There's no guarantees that Apple will stay on top for other reasons, and to assume such a thing will never happen is truly foolhardy.
It's like believing Valve will be the same after Gabe Newell dies.
Further, Apple relies deeply on TMSC and since the US is basically in a nosedive of idiocy and protectionist tariffs, there's a significant chance their supply line for their chips could be deeply impacted, and by extension, their profits from their computing products. Whether from tariffs or China taking over Taiwan, Apple could easily get fucked out of luck fast.
He also screwed a lot of the employees on the way out from Pebble, and he also bailed on Beeper the minute it got complicated. Sold it to Matt Mullenweg a year or two after getting pimp-slapped by Apple because he had no real plan for what to do if Apple started banning the devices he was using as Matrix bridges. He gave up after like three days, it was honestly genuinely pathetic. This was a paid service and he fucked it all up for anyone using iMessage on it.
I have personal experiences with Beeper that make me less than trust Eric Migicovsky, and I really don't think he seems like a "nice guy." He actively sucks, doesn't have plans for sustainability and then sells it all off to someone else at a personal profit while the people doing the actual work get fucked out of a job.