My Favorite Facebook Conspiracy Might Be True
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The author loses a lot of credibility by making this clearly false statement about Apple.
It’s demonstrably false that Apple’s business model is about harvesting data. The fact that they don’t get this right when there is overwhelming public evidence that it is false means that they lose all credibility for asserting a conspiracy theory.
Of course I don’t trust Facebook and they could be lying, but this author has no credibility on any topic if they don’t check the most basic public facts.
Not that they aren’t problematic or signs of problems, but literally zero of them prove that Apple doesn’t directly care about its users, especially when compared against every one of its competitors.
Take throttling, for example. Throttling is proven to be done to prevent the iPhone from behaving unreliably as the battery degrades. This extends the useful life of the phone, and reduces the need to upgrade.
The story that throttling is done to make people want to upgrade is flatly in contradiction to the facts. No facts support any negative inference about Apple’s motivation, and the same is true in all of these cases.
Of course if you have a preconceived notion of their motivations, you can ignore the facts and just assert that your narrative is supported.