Tangential, but I discovered several years ago that even without overt ads in Google Maps, there was still something wrong. Search for “restaurants” and you get the same blend of corpo establishments no matter where you travel. Type in something specific like “arepas”, “korean bbq”, or “turkish food” and all of a sudden you get a list of options that is more diverse and still within the same zone as the generic search.
I don’t know why the ethnic options always get hidden by default and I hate it.
Because those are more popular. More people are interested in McDonald’s than in Lahmacun.
That’s not wrong, that’s working as expected. You didn’t think those companies paid Google to not advertise their business did you?
Apple was always and is still is THE worst IT company. Only idiots are paying for their overpriced products. FULL DISCLAIMER: For decade I had iMac, MacBook, iPhone, AirPort Extreme, iPod’s. And then I refused to pay that son of a bich. Since then I am little more free and have a few euros more.
Remember when we bought something and actually owned it? Halcyon days.
The last time that happened it came in a big cardboard box with screenshots of the software on the back and pictures of what you could do with it on the front.
People gotta stop supporting these companies.
Fuck, I’m sick of watching good ideas get raped.
I wish we could all go back to year 1998-2000.
Somewhere there’s a meme about how The Matrix referred to the year 1999 as the height of civilization and I can’t stop thinking about that
Edit: here it is
Damn that really hits.
Fuck apple
And fuck Google and Microsoft and openai and Nvidia and… And… And…
All of the blue chips really
Of course. I think I hate apple worst though because they succeed at tricking so many people into thinking they’re a “good” company.
Apple users love bright things.
Tim Apple? Def. a shitpost.
Tim Apple has already stepped down. John has been shadow CEO for a few months now.
Sure
John who?
John Apple
