Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

• ChillPill@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No company is your friend.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s pretty silly to love a company: they’re not human and behave as a sociopath would.

  To love a company (which is really just to love their brand) is just tbeing easilly influenced by marketing and having a tendency to simplify one’s view of the world down to labels to make it easier to mentally understand it - in consumer terms it means that when you’re making a purchase decision you can just take the mental shortcut in your decision of directly choosing the “loved” brand, rather than needing to evaluate products and their suitability for you to make an informed buying choice, which is cognitivelly more costly.

  While “brand love” is understandable and not abnormal, it’s not a quality but rather it’s just a pretty flawed cognitive shortcut that goes against making informed choices, so expecting it from others is like expecting that everybody has some mild character flaw.

  You do your thing - it’s your life and your money - just don’t think that others must share that reductive way of making purchasing decisions of yours.

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do my thing? What statement did you _ass_ume I was making by asking a question?

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your question as formulated has the expectation that people must love some company.

      From that I assumed that you yourself “love” one or more companies and hence use “love” for companies in your purchasing decisions.

      My “do your thing” applies to you making purchasing decisions following “love” for companies. A different stating of the idea I was trying to pass in that sentence is: “You do your purchases guided by love for companies, just don’t think that others must share that same reductive way of making purchasing decisions.”

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      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They said they “have no love for Apple,” which has the expectation that they must have “love” for another.

        I was simply asking them. (Not you)

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• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably none, but one can dislike some morr than others.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Three’s

  🎶 Come and knock on my door…🎶

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• The_wild_card@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No corpo

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• dojan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that’s a fair question, but the answers you’ve gotten is accurate. I don’t really believe that there are any ”good” profit-driven companies.

  Technically companies are just entities and don’t really have any morals assigned to them, good or bad, but they become bad when their increasing strive for profit ends up hurting people. These people could be their workers (like all AAA gaming companies), their customers, or some more or less unrelated third party (like soda companies ruining water sources).

  Since the pandemic, landlord companies in my country have gotten incredibly greedy. They got a sudden massive cash infusion by increasing rents by an absurd amount, so each year since they’ve been asking for equally absurd amounts. Their CEOs are pocketing extreme sums, and then moan about how they don’t get enough money to keep the company afloat.

  They’re trying to circumvent decades of precedence in how rent negotiations work, and it’s threatening the living situation for millions of people. It’s just evil.

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The question was misinterpreted by all as a statement.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A company? None. Black diamond’s products I own? I love their products like close friends

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