I'm glad people are waking up to the reality of corporations, but damn I wish they would hurry up.

[8r3n7@mstdn.ca]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Aaronvegh/116044646952207828

I'm glad people are waking up to the reality of corporations, but damn I wish they would hurry up.

Apple fans (including me, for a while) were seduced by a *marketing image*. Jobs and Woz were coopted into that image (Jobs by choice). They were real people, but they were not Apple.

Apple, like all its ilk, seeks *moats*: soft and ersatz monopolies. When it cannot get absolute ones. Not out of generosity, but in search of power for insatiable shareholders. A monster from the collective id.

The brand is a lie.