Yes, that is the obvious goal. Mr. Whipple didn't learn shit.

private pockets. It's the same as private prisons.

We have some Apple fanatics. My boss is pushing for the whole org to be mac shit ostensibly because resale value being so much higher and they want the budget padding... That most people don't know how to use them, our techs don't know how to support them, etc be damned.

The power company in my very red state has half a dozen rate increases they're trying to push - meanwhile Google is trying to build data centers here. They already have problems keeping the fucking lights on because of all the intense climate change weather (storms/heat/etc.) much more than they did even 5 years ago.

With Russian propaganda and CCP controlled media outlets, it's pretty fucking unlikely.

The cost is far higher than the extra trash you might buy from being influenced.

This is mostly true, but they've also made it worse. Additionally, every time you think they can't possibly make it worse they find a way.

Apps suck. Computers can do a great deal more, and can actually be under your control too.

Neither of them understand what they've given up (probably even a little bit) for the captive portals they've inured themselves to.

Flood the market and no one makes shit. I'm not a programmer, but this was transparently the goal right from the start.

hear you over all that bribe money (lobbyists).

specifically for this reason. You also have Google directly targeting them.

Yes and the right wing trumptard apologists defending this dumb shit and absolutely flooding the comments makes me wish /. were half as good as it was 25 years ago.

iPhones in to bypass tariffs. If you did that shit you'd be in jail.

All of their "privacy" and what not is centered around you trusting them first. The rest of them don't even pretend.

A Roku 2 XS. It was clear then the direction they were going in. I dropped them at that time and they've popped up periodically in the news since like this doing something progressively anti-consumer and vile.