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Comment by donohoe | Hacker News Reader

Same. I read it and have no idea what he’s talking about.

I can to the comments hoping someone has context.

Otherwise it’s just a rant, and not a very lucid one at that.

It is very straightforward in that he has been using Apple for a while and made concessions on his idea of software freedom to use the "convenience of Apple products". however, with Apple's recent attempt to slip in on device scanning and reporting to police agencies and setting a precedent that this is acceptable it has pushed him over the edge. Even though apple backed off, they did just add the scan for nekkid pictures on your imessage if you're a kid and report it to your parents. He assume this is just step 0.1 of a multistep process to reinstate the scan all the things on your phone and report back to 3rd parties. He may be right, and it certainly wasn't hard to follow if you read it rather than scan it.

I've heard HN was big on this concept called "empathy".

A dude's project died of a thousand paper cuts.

The dude's observations about Apple made him notice an emergent pattern of Apple being all but openly hostile towards any independent efforts of assuring one's privacy in a way the person themselves sees fit, as opposed to privacy as Apple sees fit, and all but openly hostile toward small developers in general.

Think for a moment how lucid would you yourself be after a couple years or more of those things grating on your nerves. Read the thing again through this lens.

It was a rant, sure. But I found it perfectly straightforward, and it was pretty clear at the very top what the main concern was, actually.

For every legitimate article that gets posted on HN you can guarantee someone comes along and says "I don't understand what this is all about". Come on, read.

I clicked through to the author's article on "small web" and also couldn't understand particularly what it was: "The Small Web, quite simply, is the polar opposite of the Big Web." ?!?!?

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