Pros and Cons of various tech companies
Apple
Cons: Ridiculously high prices, perfected the walled garden, anti-repair
Pros: Major industry trendsetter (iPhone, M1, etc.), better on privacy than competition
Google
Cons: Extremely creepy surveillance, slowly destroying Internet standards, can't rely on them
Pros: Accurate search results, Android is less of a walled garden
Facebook
Cons: The worst possible surveillance, buys up and corrupts promising competitors, destroying democracy
Pros: ???
Although this post was mainly meant as a jab against Facebook, here's Amazon and MS to round out the pack:
Amazon
Cons: treats massive number of workers like expendable robots, slowly destroying all competition in the "everything" industry, AWS is an overpriced hot mess that somehow makes them all the money
Pros: They aren't kidding about the whole "customer obsession" thing
Microsoft
Cons: Has too many sins to count due to long history
Pros: Helps keep the relatively open PC platform popular
@urusan stop selling their snake oil, those things you call pros are not in any way pros. It's like if someone came into your home, pointed a gun at you and went "you don't get to pee, unless I tell you", and then someone else does the same and goes "you can go pee whenever you want" and you go "wow, that's a pro!"
