Was silicon valley always sinister in their motive? Growing up I used to think working for Apple would be awesome, now that shit almost seems dystopian. If it wasn't always that way, when did it change? Feel free to call me retarded too
>>107485829Apple's as douchey as they've ever been, at any rate. Google's gotten way worse. Microsoft got better for a while, then started getting worse again.
Late 2010s.
>>107485829these companies absorb the conceited douche bags, so it's a never ending gyre of arrogant incompetence.
>>107485829always, yes - especially that fucker
>>107485829yes 1984 was always the goal
>>107485829You have to look at who heads the companies. When people who work in the field are in charge, things are great. Tech companies, restaurants, hospitals, you name it. Once the business and finance Jews take over, everything gets a lot worse very quickly.
>>107486203Steve would be just as cringe as all the other tech CEOs now were he still alive.
>>107486203>Microsoft got better for a whileYeah the last truly evil 90s Microsoft thing they ever did was make their implementations of the C11 Annex K functions incompatible with the standard (that they pushed for). Then they mostly blissed out for a while since there's always less money to be made in being ideological. But now they're back to having extremely siloed teams and clearly do not have a single test anywhere in their company for a single line of code.
>>107485829Just from a consumer it didn't look like it. You could generally do what you wanted with your hardware and OS and run software without middle men and walled gardens, Anti-piracy was simple and wasn't at the expense of the consumer, they didn't spy on you, obsolescence wasn't planned and things only went obsolete because they were actually obsolete, less things were a service and you bought it once. You still had format wars though.
>>107485829apple died with steve
directly related to the chart. this is now much larger than people can understand. people's retirement accounts are now tied to this shit.
>>107485829With the release of the iPhone
Consumer electronics fell out of style for investors.
>>107487166retirement accounts are a psyop for self imposed corporatocracy
>>107485829they're californian. what do you think
>>107485829The early age of tech was basically a bunch of bright eyed tech nerds pushing innovation and trying to side-step, stand against, or work within the boundaries set by the evil dystopian businessmen.It's just that in the past 20 years they've evolved INTO the very same business minded faggots that the old guard hated all too well. Those with their morals fled to modest pastures, retired, or effectively retired by being so critical to the company that they could do whatever they wanted.
