r/apple - Linus Tech Tips somehow got a Developer Transition Kit, and is planning on tearing it down and benchmarking it
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This attitude “who cares, they’re just a big company, they make plenty of money” is bullshit. Any one of us could be that company. Any one of us could design a product people love, patent it, and become what Apple is. It doesn’t mean we deserve to be shit on. It doesn’t mean Apple still doesn’t OWN that design. It’s illegal to use it in a manner they haven’t authorized.

  • CoralMarks [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This was a good clap-back against this crap:

    Any one of us could be that company

    AAPL’s latest market cap: $2.02 TRILLION

    Any one of us could be that company

    LOL rly

    reminds me of this quote:

    Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

    • Ronald Wright

    His reply to this is pretty hilarious too:

    Apple was started by two kids in their garage.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Besides, a bunch of the technology, including the touchscreen, the internet, and GPS (apparently siri according to a Salon article that I googled for this but I'm not reading a long ass book rn) was public research. Apple is a trillion dollar company because they're the first ones to get around to putting it together and slapping a logo on it. It's similar to how Microsoft got big by commodifying the word processor, cheating the patent system of the day, and suing everyone to oblivion with money they already had. Under a socialist regieme it would probably be easier for two kids in a garage to request some technology from public research and tinker with it. In fact, a well designed city might also have tinkering garages open to the public for such ventures.