Must be a tough gig being a materialist historian in Star Wars. Arguing that the Galactic Republic had become an empire in terms of how it interacted with the wider galaxy decades before it was declared as such, because capitalist production had advanced to such a state within the core worlds that it had to look to outer rim territories for expansion. And everyone says nuh-uh, space wizard did it so he could become emperor
like. am i crazy or something. this is a 3/4th screen banner ad for what was originally an apple core app that collects all your streaming services together. and it’s always there. can’t be dismissed
i wouldn’t be surprised if this gets worse soon and we get articles in like three years saying “what happened to apple?” with like a graphic of a cracked iphone on it or something. because i’m pretty sure apple has realized there isn’t much ground left to expand on in the phone market (hence trying to make augmented reality a thing to pivot into) and i don’t like the idea that they are looking at their walled garden and only see a captive audience for advertisements
plus i do agree with spotify. it is really really unfair from a free market perspective that apple disallows certain forms is advertisement and payment methods specifically so that they can be the only ones that advertise to you. samsung gets rightfully mocked for having advertisements in their core apps but id say this is just as bad. the red bubble is telling me to buy icloud storage btw
i mean we know from the epic trials that apple is fully willing to abandon their supposed moral stances if google gives them billions of dollars to stay the default search engine and collect data. and that they’re planning on building their own data collection service so they can serve you from their own advertising engine
i can’t tell if there’s something wrong with what apple news+ considers important or if they are genuinely getting paid under the table
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