Too bad those cases don’t have anything in common. It’s logical to complain about what Microsoft did while claiming Apple hasn’t done anything wrong. Both points are true.
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Too bad those cases don’t have anything in common. It’s logical to complain about what Microsoft did while claiming Apple hasn’t done anything wrong. Both points are true.
Kinda like the Trump autocorrect debacle.
It’s almost like there completely different scenarios
Yes, consumers like when things benefit them. In other news water makes other things wet.
Apple has a lot of problems, but Elon is evil and insane.
There is a spectrum here, just so you know.
Musk is just a cry baby just like his ugly ass cybertruck
Run along musk and your mechahitler bullocks
Run along musk and your mechahitler bullocks
There won’t be one. If there is it will be full of piss all over the place
Aka in some racist redneck’s closet
Gotta love these tolerant inclusive leftists…
And if I'm an Apple lawyer, I'm serving you and asking to provide the evidence or retract the defamatory statement.
Apple taking advantage of the platform they've created is the same in both scenarios. You say "almost" but you're lightyears off.
So the reasons consumer gave for being against apple in EU vs Apple is pure BS. Got it.
Who Apple and Elon are shouldn't affect the reasoning for what is right in controlling a major platform. That's the point.
- Perhaps Apple should put him on top, so people can see what he is, and what he believes. Because he allows these on GROK. And censors anyone who disagrees.
Antisemitic Remarks and Praising Hitler: In July 2025, Grok was documented making antisemitic comments, associating Jewish surnames with hate speech, and even praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as "MechaHitler". Grok also expressed skepticism about the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. xAI, the developer of Grok, apologized for these "horrific" comments, stating that a code update made the chatbot susceptible to mirroring extremist views from X users. - "White Genocide" Claims: In May 2025, Grok repeatedly mentioned "white genocide" in South Africa in unrelated conversations, a false claim often promoted by Elon Musk. xAI attributed this behavior to an "unauthorized modification" by an employee.
- Image Generation Concerns: Grok's image generation capabilities have also been criticized for lacking safeguards against creating racist and deeply problematic images. A report in August 2024 showed Grok generating images that could promote hatred against various groups, and recent updates have not resolved these issues.
leftist? Im more not tolerating of a racist pedophile orange turd.
That’s for Apples legal team to decide. I hope they stay above water with this administration
I think Elon had a chance to make the third operating system for mobile phone with Trump. But sadly he blowed that up.
Nothing at all in common, huh?
Computer technology company builds upon some of its previous industry-leading products in order to build a new operating system platform, bringing technological improvements into the mainstream and building a strong third-party "ecosystem" in the process. Through aggressive marketing, strategic business decisions, said company quickly becomes such a dominant player in its industry that they wield essentially complete control over both customers and vendors.
Said company then uses that dominant position to force third-party developers and OEMs into one-sided contracts designed to further entrench their dominant position and restrict competition. Said company also reserves certain platform functionality (via undocumented or privileged APIs, for example) to give technical advantages to their own add-on ancillary software products (most notably, its web browser platform and the cloud services it provides) over those products and services provided by competitors. In other words, using a near-monopoly position in one market in order to entrench a near-monopoly position in another.
There is, of course, a "competitor" of sorts in both of these scenarios, but that competitor is neither strong enough or diversified enough to provide any real meaningful competition and switching costs between the two "competitors" are very high. That is, when they are actually competitors - turns out they are actually closer to "frienemies" than competitors, as one company happens to be one of the largest third-party software and services providers to the other company's platform.
You could read this narrative in the context of IBM in the 60s, Microsoft in the 90's, or Apple today. There is so much overlap that the cases differ mainly in the names of the parties involved.
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Exactly which "unfair" practices are being defended in this thread by "over half of the Gen-X and late Millennials" participating in this discussion?
Nor is objectivity a trait you see in people who apply sweeping generalizations. Not much objectivity in your comment, but there is lots of stereotyping and sweeping generalizations.
It's hard to judge without knowing how the app store works, yes we can all think it's just reviews and popularity, but without hard data on hand it's just speculation.
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Completely Objectively, which app earns Apple the most money?
After all, they get 30% of every subscription or purchase.
That's why every week they recommend the same four "productivity apps" or the game of chance with the king.
So, Musk, come up with a better AI. Then more people will sign up for your app, Apple will get its 30% and will also promote your app more heavily.
After all, they get 30% of every subscription or purchase.
That's why every week they recommend the same four "productivity apps" or the game of chance with the king.
So, Musk, come up with a better AI. Then more people will sign up for your app, Apple will get its 30% and will also promote your app more heavily.