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My first thought watching the show was how is this produced by Apple. Apple would be one of the first companies to have severed workers. Apple is a really secretive company, employees and teams are intentionally kept in the dark just like the different departments at Lumon.
I would say it is one sided in that the user gets the same treatment/experience from either platform even though they are consider rivals and each company would argue they are different.
I would say iOS and Android.
Originally they were pretty different in terms of functionality and appearance. Android has improved a lot in terms of the user experience and UI, but also has become more locked down and user hostile. I would say that iOS has actually gotten worse in terms of bugs/reliability, and now Apple is relying on services and ads for new revenue. The user experience has suffered.
If you want a mobile phone/OS that respects user freedoms, agency and privacy, there is no consumer option. Both are filled with spyware/data collection from both the OS vendor and third party apps.
On iOS I’m using OutRun. It provides basic activity tracking, which is what I care about. I don’t need a social network.
It’s open source: https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun
I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.
I believe Valve just has a flat hierarchy, but not worker owned.
One answer to capitalist companies seeking to maximize profit at all costs are worker owned companies. When the workers are in control of the business decisions, they won’t vote for the decisions going against themselves.
Sadly, I don’t know that many worked owned tech companies. One example is https://www.igalia.com/
If more people would be willing to start work owned companies rather than your typical capitalist startup, we could have more options.
For macOS and iOS development I use Xcode (don’t really have another choice), but otherwise I am using Kate. Kate has support for macOS and Windows in addition to Linux.
I’m not touching VSCode, I don’t want to use an electron app as a code editor, nor want to use something with Microsoft spyware and propriety plugins.
Strange, Big Tech has no inherit right to operate in foreign markets. If they want to be in those markets, they need to pay their fair share. I would be glad to see them pull out of those markets, but that won’t easily happen.
Strange that they have chosen Fedora which Red Hat still has influence in. I would have thought they would make their own distro to be truly independent of American companies.