What are you on about? What you said simply is not true. At least, I’ve not once heard an Apple user state they wanted to be told what they were allowed to use. You either believe that, which would be stupid, or you don’t which would be disingenuous. You pick.

It may be a scumbag company, or its users a cult, but that doesn’t stop what you said from being stupid.

I don’t disagree with any of that. I only take issue with the quoted statement.

People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed.

I get that this crowd generally thinks Apple is hellspawn, in spite of also having devices made by other, also shitty corporations, but this is just a dumb thing to say. They’re just devices. Yes some of us prefer them. I didn’t switch after every mainline Android phone from G1 through Nexus and Pixel because I wanted a paternal imposition of allowed apps. Stupid fucking comment.

These days you never know, but I’m hopeful you’re tongue is in your cheek.

I don’t know to what precisely they were referring, but the Trump administrations end of funding for PEPFAR is doing just that.

GNU / Linux :)

And all the other nazis do not see nazis.

He wasn’t American in the sense that it was used. Stop being so willfully obtuse. “American” is the primary demonym for people from the United States in addition to meaning people from the Americas.

When people shout “Death to America”, they aren’t talking about Argentinians and we all know it.

But “American” is the primary demonym for a person from the United States. I means both in varying contexts, and you’re being disingenuous, I assume, if claiming you didn’t know that was the intended use here.

I don’t understand the point you’re making. The new pope is the first American pope.

Do they run on Windows ARM?

Apple’s ARM SoC’s were some of their best work yet in my view.

Greedy little pig boy

Programmer in 40’s. Applied for one job. Immigrated. A lot of people just assume it is too hard and use that to excuse not trying. Perhaps you are, but those who aren’t, go for it.

Are visas for childbearing a thing? I immigrated as a skilled worker, but I don’t remember any checkboxes for women willing to be broodmares.

What an ignorant thing to say. I don’t agree with their position on the supernatural, but my generalization ends at their truth claims.

There are many good Christians, good Muslims, good pagans, good satanists, etc. And many bad among them too. Because good and evil is a different axis than theism and atheism. Nice though it would be if everything were so neatly orthogonal.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows

They were replying to the comparison to Windows. What are you on about?

Sure, Jan.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

That was comparing desktop OS to mobile OS, which is why the person to which I replied pointed out this is different than macOS.

On your second point, neither is iOS a workstation, and one could just as easily say, “The only thing you’d want to install is mobile apps.” Okay but the problem isn’t the type of apps, it is the source of those apps. So either you should be able to get application / games from multiple sources or not.

If you think those initial downvotes were due to some pedantic distinction about workstation, and not because somebody indirectly implied that Microsoft and Apple were on similar footing in this regard, fine.

Not terrible people. At least the owner / one of the operators is a pretty awesome man.