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Apple explicitly advertise that their computers are locked down. It’s part of their marketing. If people didn’t want it, this wouldn’t work.

Exactly this. People forget that most of hacking is social engineering.

It does still work, but you need to change the gatekeeper settings to allow it.

Nope. They were taking about Apple cracking down. That’s not the same as being forced to make a software change at the governments demand.

This isn’t in contrast to Android. That’s just a matter of usability.

It’s in contrast to the openness of the platform people seem to be demanding from Apple. Current Android is obviously not open enough for them, so it’s not a valid as a point of comparison.

Clearly not true. A lot of spyware and malware masquerades as legitimate software.

> which is why Apple's cracking down.

This is absurd. Apple is doing this because of government pressure, not because of their own desire to crack down.

1. The suicide nets is misinformation.

2. The supply chain is not riddled with slave labor.

3. The chance to airdrop was made weeks before the protest.

You might not be basing your evaluation of Apple’s behavior on reality.

You can read it for yourself.

Yup - the suicide nets story is pure disinformation. Yes they had nets, but the suicide rate at the factory before the nets were installed was lower than of students at US colleges.

> tech people who learned to program because their 8088 was completely open and free to let you actually create things and learn about computing, so many of you will defend this terrible situation.

There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use.

I have a Mac, and I also have Linux machines. Nothing is stopping people learning about computers.

Why would anyone spend $1000 on a computer from Apple if it’s not what they want?

> You can use it privately as well.

Yeah yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a publishing platform. If you don’t think Twitter is about public conversation then you take a look at it for yourself some time.

Do you have a link to the “88” tweet?

Given that Elon is out there posting 88s and Pepe Memes, it’s hard to see him participating is good faith.

Also, if you’re posting about European legislation kicking in, Twitter is a prime candidate.