It's about the restrictions they put in place on those who have bought their products. They make it extremely hard to leave their ecosystem, overcharge for services, and prevent interoperability with other products.

They're only just now allowing RCS to try getting out ahead of these lawsuits. But they still don't allow side-loading (forcing developers to use their store so they can charge 30% on all sales), don't allow third-party app stores, and don't allow third-party browser engines (forcing everyone to reskin Safari).

Plus, in the US, Apple has 55% market share as just one company. The next highest is Samsung at 25%.

So yeah, they can play monopolistic games.

I'm going to call it LEGOs even harder now.

If it looks like a joke and sounds like a joke, it's probably made by Elon Musk.

Okay, but fuck Bill Clinton. He signed DOMA into law and signed a bunch of crime bills that made things way worse for poor, minorities, and convicts.

"Some customers are fed up and pushing back"

But continuing to buy things from them, yeah? Companies are not going to change until people stop buying from them.

Nobody needs McDonald's. I'm not even sure most people actually want McDonald's. Just stop going, seriously.

No, but it's definitely a boring dystopia.

All the tech companies in Texas would leave. As would most Democrats with the means to do it. There goes your highly educated workforce (Democrats tend to be more highly educated based on demographic data).

The US military would leave. And then there goes all the defense contractors too.

They wouldn't be self-sufficient on their own. They're only self sufficient because they're part of the US.

You know what also cools houses down super efficiently?

Trees

In order to use a defibrillator, you have to remove everything from a person's chest. This includes the bra and to even shave chest hair to be able to apply the pads correctly.

I've always thought that it would be troublesome for a man to have to apply a defibrillator to a woman if someone assumes foul play because of their own issues.

Life over dignity in that situation, everyone else be damned.

More power to them! Shut it all down and get those shit companies to pay fair wages.

One of their demands is a 32 hour work week, and if they get that, it would be a huge group to do so and may jumpstart the transition in other industries to a shorter week as well.

Only the fucking Republicans would end up against innovation.

The anti-progress culture war bullshit is overdone and tired. Give it a rest and let everyone else move on without you.

They still have a lot of traffic. So yeah, they did win.

But you know who else won? The Fediverse. This place feels really active now and has the added benefit of feeling just a bit more wholesome.