'We're Winning': Apple Formally Endorses Right to Repair Legislation After Spending Millions Fighting It
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In a letter from its lobbyist, Apple 'urges' California lawmakers to pass the strongest right-to-repair law in the country.

I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.

  • KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    That was awesome, thanks for sharing.

    I fully get what you’re saying and I think I know a thing or two about how lifestyle branding consumes people’s lives to the point where they’re fully absorbed.

    Social media platforms seem to be by far the worst offenders of stimulating this kind of addiction (let’s just name it for what it is).

    Coming from a background of designing products, as opposed to selling them I tend to be focused on product representation, rather than selling an idea. Which is not actually the route to making stupid amounts of money.

    You’ve convinced me that marketing is definitely part of the problem. Here in the Netherlands they’ve recently (about two years ago) relaxed some legislation on online gambling (gambling itself is legal, just the ads weren’t) and since we’ve seen a surge of ads on television and social media featuring sports icons and influencers. The result has been a giant increase in profits, which directly corelates to figures of increased debt, prevalent mostly in young adults. I firmly believe this is toxic and needs to be fixed asap.

    If you do decide to host a Q&A I’ll be sure to have a look for more cool insights.

    • HauiEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thank you very much! I appreciate the acknowledgment.

      You‘re correct and then some, Social Media is more or less a giant ad platform, at least conventional ones are. The fediverse has no real „ads“ but a lot of jerks try to advertise for free here. That’s hardly gonna be a real problem (I hope).

      Product design sounds like a cool job as well. Still tech or something else entirely?

      The issue with marketing is precedent:

      1. you go to mcd‘s or any other burger restaurant, the image shows giant burgers.
      2. your mouth waters, you order a burger
      3. what arrives bears no resemblance with the picture. This should be outlawed!

      From there we have precedent that we are allowed to lie „a little bit“. Not keep information for us like a good salesman but outright misrepresent the product.

      The same goes for all other products. You see a motor drill in a hardware store prospect: 39,99* Farther down the page, it says „if you are gold member [and we sell your data], otherwise 139.99.“

      And there you have it again, precedent. If we allow giant companies to market like this, we shouldn’t wonder why they bullshit us in every other alley (taxes, labor laws, environment).

      Thanks for encouraging me to make a q&a, will definitely let you know if I do. But since you‘re seemingly one of three people on the internet who is open to learn stuff, how would you think some kind of podcast/blog? Would you participate?