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Did I say or imply anything about the race of the immigrants?!

I am the one they call when something doesn’t work anymore. Getting them iPhones & iPads reduced those calls tremendously. I still have nightmares about the browser plugins they used to have installed on their Win XP PC.

Is there a switch to turn this crap off? Especially on my parents’ iPhones. I don’t want to have to explain them “which App Store did you get this app from”. They have enough trouble grokking the app/web app distinction as is. I just don’t want them to be able to install other app stores, by mistake or otherwise.

And immigrants impact housing by renting them thus increasing demand.

Some are always more equal than others

That is simply false. Talk to a lawyer. They advise for cookie banners as good precaution against disproportionate punishment mandated by law.

We actually hated that while living under communism. It meant there was never hope for better, no better future on the horizon. All while those judging “your needs” kept the lion share for themselves and their apparatchik friends.

Every time I took a vacation in Greece (and I took plenty in the last 20 years) and I had to visit the doctor (for the kids mostly) it was either Romanian or Bulgarian. Same in Italy and Spain. Also other people working in the turism industry: cooks, chambermaids, reception and so on and so forth.

Pay is not the only criteria. Some select for the culture, lifestyle, similar language, etc.

And Eastern European engineers and doctors go to Mediterranean countries for bigger opportunities and salaries. Looks like the biggest culprit is the “free education”, no?

There are thousands trade offs going into each product. Demanding that a subset of these trade offs must include certain solutions in effect elevates those solutions' importance above all the other issues, past or future, encountered or unforeseen.

That is simply dumb. It prevents improvements, innovation and future advances of said product while pandering to a current political base sensible to said issues. It is another way a country stagnates,

Even better - it made the whole market irrelevant instead.

I’ll get you one next time I go to the doctor to get an MRI.

I remember when this BS was being pushed about Wintel capturing the market and killing competition. Then mobile happened, Google and now AI - doomers just changed the brands doing the capturing.

As a survivor of communism, I sigh every time I see this ideology that killed countless millions still being pushed in places where other inhuman ideologies (like fascism and its ilk) will attract a swift ban.

> humanity

Humanity is much better off with companies making all those products and services for us than without, though.

Self driving cars, for one.

Except the only ones building products and services actually used every day by humans are corporations - not “the EU”. Hardware, software, stuff I use for fun, work and live, comes from corporations of all sizes - not politicians.

> corporations and rich folk

In 2022, about 58% of American households owned stock, either directly or indirectly through mutual funds and other investment accounts.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/18/percentage-americans-own-st...

This is exactly how populism rises: who will vote no to the simple proposal to take money from "others" and give it to them?

Whose morals though?

In my life time I've seen being gay or smoking weed (for example) turn from immoral to widely accepted. Kind of hard to consider these shifting sentiments as a solid foundation for anything.

> With extreme inequity, who's gonna make all the smaller bets?

The more large, visible winners you have in a society the more us little people are incentivized to buy those lottery tickets. Crowd funding, angel investing and small funds do exist. Or even Robinhood.

It seems those "megalomaniacs" are needed to at least build those large organizations. And I'd rather have them run by their founders with vested interests than bureaucrats, committees and politicians.

> "real estate holdings"

Real estate is not cash. It's cash spent.

> History also shows us that sooner or later, unbounded wealth disparity ends poorly for the wealthy.

History also shows us that societies without wealth disparity end up poorly for everyone. As in starving.

> You can have big business without robber barons.

Excellent. Go ahead and build one, compete and put Scrooge McDuck out of business.

Actually corporations are naturally balanced by the free market: the competition and their customers (whose needs they must serve in order to even exist) keep them very well in check.

Regulations pretend to "improve" this but inevitably skew the balance to the side of safety, leading to ossification, stagnation, loss of competition and lack of innovation.

Thing is removing checklists very rarely happens. Almost nobody votes "Yes, let's have a bunch of deaths in the name of (potential) progress". But on the other hand the great majority enthusiastically supports adding more rules and regulations to "save lives".

The system is unbalanced by default.

iPhones (and probably Androids too) support up to 10 eSIMs with 2 active at the same time, if I'm not mistaken. And you can buy data eSIMs before even leaving the country in an app like Airalo.

> actually care about the planet

Shouldn't they have been pro-nuclear if they actually cared about the planet? But it seems to me they really care more about pushing their own ideology instead.

I think I wasn’t very clear when I said “support”, my bad. Trying again…

Apps made for keyboard and mouse suck on touch&pen devices and vice versa (even if the device is basically able to run both) because most devs pick just one mode of interaction and optimize their UI for it, while the other mode is just “supported” as an afterthought.

That’s why I believe Apple decided to have separate devices for each mode of interaction, each with its own distinct OS&app ecosystem.

By default it comes with neither and most iPad users probably don’t add them.

Because touch-based and mouse/trackpad based UIs are different enough to need separate support. An app optimized for one will look&feel much worse on the other. Remember Windows 8?