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Mr. Cook, tear down that wall (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

The era of Apple slowly opening up its platforms and devices without government intervention has ended.

When was this ever true? Apple has always been a walled garden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fuck Tim Apple and the rest of these grifters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Credit: DALL-E 3 / Microsoft Designer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

na na-na-na na na, na na, na na na na nana!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

sadly, you are right, I'll return to android when ever I will be able to.

[+] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Relying on individual consumer choices to change the direction of a multinational company to a direction that is clearly less profitable is laughably naive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah, there's companies out there literally destroying the planet or causing deaths and consumers don't care. They're not gonna stop using their shiny rectangle over this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I don’t anticipate it, most consumers don’t take the time to be critical or try alternatives. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Which, if the next version of the goggles has a useful battery life, may be no time soon.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Jesus, MacBooks cost 5K? That's ridiculous, I'd expect that for a nice gaming laptop.

It's a good point. The only bespoke thing on there, as far as I can tell, is the R1 chip. I assume a cord with enough bandwidth could be found in order to have a more modular system. The MacBook end may or may not have the port capacity for that, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It’s too late for Apple to close off macOS (and they’ve tried), so I think the goggles are meant to replace it altogether with an inherently closed platform. I hope Apple ends up having to open that platform up as well before it’s too late.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Even for an AI image, that's pretty low quality. The bricks don't line up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Normally I purposefully don't click on articles with AI generated images, this one was so bad I thought it was a really bad photoshop instead

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And thematically I would have gone for something evoking the actual Berlin wall: an AI generated black and white "picture" of Apple Wall inspired by the Berlin wall but with a huge apple logo and a row of Apple Store storefronts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't, the article did by paraphrasing Reagan. And hyperbole is a perfectly valid figure of speech anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is one of Reagan's most famous (and lucid) statements. The connection is fairly obvious to anyone familiar with the history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm not op but the post was made in the context of the article. The article which had a title modifying this quote about the Berlin Wall "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" to refer to Apple's CEO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!

As far as I can tell, the hyperbole was already present before OP shared the image.

...Or have I misunderstood your point?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Seriously, make an effort. These took me 30 seconds and only a slight reprompt tweak.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Apple wall isn't in line with the other walls. It has the perspective of one of those paintings that got Adolf kicked out of art school

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The geometry and perspective don't make any sense either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Shush. Welcome our AI overlords!