Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      When you realize corporations exist for the benefit of shareholders and not the customers it serves, it makes a lot more sense why they act the way they do.

      That’s why things like credit unions usually don’t suck as hard.

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      9 months ago

      My only example ever is pretty much Costco. But I can’t think of a single tech company that isn’t a massive asshole. There must be some tho, right?

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          You didn’t used to be able to refund your stream purchases if you downloaded or installed them at all. The fact that they forced intrusive DRM with a single player game in HL2.

          Valve was seen as a very unfriendly company until about 2010

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          how quickly people forget valves pro-consumer shit was forced by regulations and countries suing them into compliance.

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          Valve basically killed the second hand market of PC Games with their Steam keys tied forever to one account. CD Keys was a thing before Steam but only for online games and if you sold the game or lended it out to a buddy the next person could play with same key. Nope too pro consumer thought Valve, made it mandatory for singleplayer games like Half-Life 2. They forced people buying Half-Life 2 to install Steam & create Steam account which at the time was not ready and basically just an early DRM to tie license forever to one account.

          Many people could not even play at release, they could not prove they owned what they had bought, cause servers were overloaded so they were locked out of playing an offline singleplayer game on their own computer. Unfortunately that is custom nowadays when big games launch with contrived shitty online service crap forced down gamers throats. Valve basically pioneered that shit among many other douchey moves. They are better than scum like EA & Ubisoft especially these days but far from perfect. So no they all suck to some degree.

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        9 months ago

        I personally believe Costco does suck but somehow a large number of people are blind to it.

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        9 months ago

        No, they suck too.

        Doing a very similar tactic to Apple with their snaps.