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The media made up this bullshit about Apple out of thin air. The media does this shit all the time. Apple should have responded quickly, but they haven’t even made a formal statement. We got the information from Musk after he had a conversation with Tim Cook directly.

Facebook and Apple are direct enemies, even moreso than Microsoft was with Apple. Now Zuck is crying about monopolies because his shitty Secondlife clone sucks ass.
idk how people still take Zuckerberg seriously after he got laughed at when his "facebook money" idea was shot down by the government. Dude lives in his own make-believe world.
I think that's the key takeaway here with Facebook taking shots at Apple. They're hard up on monetary value and are arguably less powerful of a propaganda tool by governments as Twitter previously was. Zucc wants his cut, but he seems to be in a really impotent position.
 
Kind of fascinating to see one tech giant going knives out at another tech giant trying to be knives out to yet another tech giant. Methinks all of them may be a bit envious of what Musk is doing for Twitter and want to drag him back into the crab bucket, but only Facebook is dragging Apple back in the bucket.
For Meta, this is absolutely about revenge. Apple changed their privacy policy to require users to opt in manually to sharing their data with facebook. This has tanked their ad business and Zuckerberg will never forgive Apple for it.
 
I think that's the key takeaway here with Facebook taking shots at Apple. They're hard up on monetary value and are arguably less powerful of a propaganda tool by governments as Twitter previously was. Zucc wants his cut, but he seems to be in a really impotent position.
Atop that financial loss and loss of propaganda influence, all these tech companies, twitter and facebook included, are looking at a rapid and unscheduled disassembly of their advertising revenue. Facebooks single biggest money maker is ads. Apple makes a pretty penny off their ad service for app store apps, and also recently made a move to start cutting into 3rd party social media advertising with their rules which has facebook in particular livid, but would affect twitter too. This is all atop the ad market collapsing as consumers are fiscally exhausted, manufacturers are unable to justify higher ad spends due to lowering profits or lowing ad returns, and the economy in general grinds its gears into the next recession/depression.

The moves Musk is making to try and monetize the Twitter userbase may be a first major move in the industry, but the days of tech companies aiming for growth to eventually monetize ads off free users is starting to collide with a reality that says "This barely works in the best of times". Musk is the first, but everyone is going to need to get onto monetizing end user base soon. Facebook will likely look at monetizing instagram users as thats their big win pot right now, googles using its control of Chromium to start crippling adblockers with the manifest v3 changes alongside their pushes of youtubes monetized features, and even Apple could get their hands in the pot. One long feared move in the apple community would be an iOS subscription, required for iOS updates, without which you cannot update or install new appstore apps. Its sounds pants on head retarded, but so does a subscription fee for heated car seats, and paying for software updates has infinitely more justification than that.

The days of the internet of free things is trickling to a close. We tried to turn the average user into the product, and now we're learning that the average person is shit and not worth monetizing in the long term.
 
I wasn't sure where to put this but this tweet is on fire.

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For Meta, this is absolutely about revenge. Apple changed their privacy policy to require users to opt in manually to sharing their data with facebook. This has tanked their ad business and Zuckerberg will never forgive Apple for it.
And Apple exempted their own stuff from that change.

This is the warning shown when third party apps like Facebook ask to track you (the small text is set by the app developer, but subject to very strict rules by Apple):
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And this is the warning shown during iPhone setup when Apple asks to track you across the entire phone:
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Apple has their own ad products and are a direct competitor to Facebook. Why does the Apple warning talk vaguely about improving “products and services” when the third party warning mentions tracking explicitly?

Every big tech company that sells ads uses “differential privacy”.
Differential privacy (DP) is a system for publicly sharing information about a dataset by describing the patterns of groups within the dataset while withholding information about individuals in the dataset.
It’s key to the ad selling business because without it, your advertisers could cut you out by directly connecting with your users. Here’s Facebook talking about it.

Saying yes to that “analytics” feature opts you into personalized ads:
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And they’re being misleading by claiming it doesn’t follow you across third-party apps. That’s true, instead it follows you through the phone’s OS. No need to embed tracking SDKs in apps when you control the whole phone. Google doesn’t track anything in third party Android apps either unless the dev opts in by using their ad products or analytics tools.

Zuckerberg has every right to be pissed with Apple for this blatant antitrust violation.
 
Honestly I love how techbros never seem to understand the finality of death, I chuckle everytime I remember Steve Jobs could have easily lived another 10+ years if he wasn't such a fucking retard and thought dying happened to other people.
Yep. Jobs' entire legacy is so tarnished by the fact that he thought he could put apple sauce on his stomach and cure pancriatic cancer or whatever the fuck stupid shit he did instead of getting a real cancer treatment.
Promising developments lads. I'm sure the trad right audience Elon cultivated will love this lmao.
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Neuralink is one of those things that is good until its bad. if it helps cripples move and shit that's awesome. if it helps people otherwise totally incapacitated have some quality of life that's great. it will almost surely go too far and musks hubris will finally be revealed as malice maybe. i can't say but yeah. crazy shit.
 
Honestly I love how techbros never seem to understand the finality of death, I chuckle everytime I remember Steve Jobs could have easily lived another 10+ years if he wasn't such a fucking retard and thought dying happened to other people.
Not necessarily but he would have had a lot better chance. He had one of the rare kinds of pancreatic cancer that you have a chance with (usually it is a pure death sentence and all they can do is delay it) if you catch it early, and they caught it early. And then he did retarded woo-woo shit instead of real treatment until it was too late.
Neuralink is one of those things that is good until its bad. if it helps cripples move and shit that's awesome. if it helps people otherwise totally incapacitated have some quality of life that's great. it will almost surely go too far and musks hubris will finally be revealed as malice maybe. i can't say but yeah. crazy shit.
More likely they instead figure out some way of using it in VR porn or to make a new kind of dildo.
 
I'm keeping up with Twitter wanna-be alternatives because of my favorite lolcow Patrick Tomlinson and making fun of his retarded decision making (he had a 1.2 academic GPA in high school). Something I thought was interesting is the geography of Google searches for those apps, leans heavily for DC/Oregon/Washington:

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dunno thought it was cool to see, presumably this are also the people who left Twitter

Post.news will be glownigger central if it ever catches on. Hive is already done, got security audited by some white hats and it was a disaster.
 
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I'm keeping up with Twitter wanna-be alternatives because of my favorite lolcow Patrick Tomlinson and making fun of his retarded decision making (he had a 1.2 academic GPA in high school). Something I thought was interesting is the geography of Google searches for those apps, leans heavily for DC/Oregon/Washington:

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dunno thought it was cool to see, presumably this are also the people who left Twitter

Post.news will be glownigger central if it ever catches on. Hive is already done, got security audited by some white hats and it was a disaster.
according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33808262 (a) and https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/ (a) hive is hacked wide open and offline https://twitter.com/TheHIVE_Social/status/1598119071907991552 (a)

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More likely they instead figure out some way of using it in VR porn or to make a new kind of dildo.
Imagine coombrains like most twitter users but being able to just slam an orgasm button over and over and over again. They'll die.
 
I'm keeping up with Twitter wanna-be alternatives because of my favorite lolcow Patrick Tomlinson and making fun of his retarded decision making (he had a 1.2 academic GPA in high school). Something I thought was interesting is the geography of Google searches for those apps, leans heavily for DC/Oregon/Washington:

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dunno thought it was cool to see, presumably this are also the people who left Twitter

Post.news will be glownigger central if it ever catches on. Hive is already done, got security audited by some white hats and it was a disaster.
Oregon, home of antifa, is the top state for Hive, second top behind DC for Mastodon, and still fourth for Post. Guess all those violent communists need a new home now that Musk is going after actual violent threats and child porn.
 
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