who would win meme format
[left side: apple]
expensive monetarily but petty in actions
[right side: openai]
open in name but closed in reality
mokus ( @mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 26•3 months agoEpic rap battles of capitalism
mryessir ( @mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org ) 12•3 months agoOpenAI is just a mask of Satan. Apple is just a contender for hell and doesn’t run things there. Yet.
environmentalists would consider apple to be more than just a contender
pewpew ( @pewpew@feddit.it ) 6•3 months agoApple is definitely not pretty in actions, that’s what they want you to think
The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English2•3 months agoPetty. The meme says petty
MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 5•3 months agoIn what sense Apple is expensive monetary?
In any case if this is a face off, Apple will win - it has greater, much grater loyal customer base. Sooner or later Apple will have AppleGPT and will include premium subscription into Apple One plan, or whatever it is called. And I am telling this as both an Apple user and ChatGPT paid user.
intrepid ( @intrepid@lemmy.ca ) 15•3 months agoA trillion dollar company demanding 30% cut of revenue of small developers, on top of annual developer fees and exorbitantly priced hardware with zero reparability and severe environmental impact isn’t monetarily expensive enough for you? That isn’t loyalty. It’s stupid fanaticism that harms everyone else. And I don’t want to even start about the petty part.
Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•3 months agoI laugh everytime I see fanbois biting the bait even if it was a very mild uninspired bait. Makes it easy to tag moronic fanatics and identify them in the future.
PeriodicallyPedantic ( @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ) 3•3 months agoMaximum eyeroll
MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 1•3 months agoAre you violently agreeing with me?
words_number ( @words_number@programming.dev ) 13•3 months agoApple is exactly as shit as every other tech company, because they have to be in order to win the capitalism game.
But yeah, they sure have got a lot of zealots…
The foundational tenet of “the Cult of Mac” is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur.
(by Cory Doctorow, here’s the recent article: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money )
MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 2•3 months agoIn what sense Apple is expensive monetary?
costs me 100 dollars each year just so that I can push an app to their app store, even if I make zero bucks off of it(and if I did, they’d want an additional 30% share of it).
not to mention that I can’t develop an app without a mac – an artificial requirement created by them.it is expensive for developers that aren’t in the west
Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 4•3 months agoIt’s expensive for devs in the west, too, if you’re as small as I am.
XTL ( @XTL@sopuli.xyz ) 6•3 months agoEvery.
The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English5•3 months agoThe hardware is expensive, the licensing is expensive, the hardware requires accessories you don’t from other companies (dongles, so many dongles), and everything they do is hostile to repairs. Are there any aspects in which they offer a high value proposition?
MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 1•3 months agoI am an apple phone user from iPhone1. (While I do not consider myself apple fanboy, switching to android phone is just too much hustle), I have not purchased dongles for myself ever. I have purchased one dongle for my family - for daughter to use it with her headphones, (but androids are not better here with headphone jacks). I do not want to spend much money on my phone, so I buy top model of the phone and wait about 5 years before I switch. Apple is excellent with software updates so all the iPhones always run the latest software. I suspect this would not work as well with droids - software support at least few years ago was less long. So I totally think that I save money with iPhones. Also, have you looked at flagman android phone prices? They are similar or even more expensive than iPhone.
I do understand, of course, that different patter of phone usage may lead to androids being better/cheaper for other people, but not for everyone.