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  • That was the question, yes, and clearly that was the implication.

    My suggestion that the other commenter probably didn’t need to post their purchasing intent on a literal apple enthusiast community was based on the recommendation being nothing to do with Apple, and almost every sentence in it focusing on a political justification. There are countless communities more appropriate for those discussions on Lemmy.

    That user had already decided they weren’t buying any Apple product anymore. That’s fine and I wish them well, but it doesn’t answer my question, isn’t related to the Apple event I referenced, was contra to the phrase Apple Enthusiast, and to be honest was tedious.

    Sometimes people just want to buy some technology, not be lectured about monopolies, fascism and EU policy. Not every thread on this platform needs to be an exercise in holier-than-thou, guilt-based anti-capitalism.


  • Yes you did, you said both systems are opaque so I can’t have “facts” for you.

    So equally, you don’t have any to back up your claims either. In fact you went so far as to dismiss a comment by another user where you stated that you’re ignoring Apple’s claims because they can’t prove it because their code is closed. So what’s the point?

    If the facts someone presents to you can be dismissed by you because you refuse to believe it, then me echoing them won’t make any difference will it?

    And yet you can happily claim the opposite and say what I’m saying is untrue, with equally as few facts.

    You want me to prove my claim that Apple harvests less data, but you haven’t got any proof of your claim that they collect the same as Google. All while saying that because the system is opaque that it can’t be proved.

    This entire conversation is absurd.