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0 pointszepto5y ago0 comments

‘One can just as easily say “Apple doesn’t care about the users, they’re just trying to make money selling phones and getting a bigger cut of transactions that happen on the phone”.’

Yes one can, and one can make a case for that based on the aggregate of the companies behavior and statements of their executives.

If you don’t look at the actual companies, it’s easy to make a false equivalence like this.

In this case actually looking at Facebook’s behavior, incentive structure, and the statements of its executives support the position I have taken.

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dhnajsjdnd5y ago· 2 in thread

Looking at the company’s behavior and incentive structure is definitely more relevant than trying to read the tea leaves of motivations.

Facebook’s business is getting paid by companies to help them sell goods and services to consumers. Facebook is claiming that Apple’s changes make it harder for them to do that. Don’t Facebook’s claims match its incentives here?

zeptoOP5y ago

Your description of Facebook’s business is incomplete.

Facebook’s business is getting paid by companies to help them sell goods and services to consumers by tracking user behavior without consent so that they. can sell targeted ads, and by keeping users engaged with the ad delivery platform by presenting content algorithmically selected to provoke emotional reactions.

Those are the incentives.

dhnajsjdnd5y ago

You’re just expressing that you have some beef with the company, not making an argument about the lawsuit. You could similarly talk about how Apple depends on sweatshops to increase margins.

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