Are people still fans of corporations these days?
I just popped in to say IMAGINE being a fan of a publicly traded company. They’d stomp your balls and punch your tits for an extra dime if they could. Any company with more than one shareholder is not your fucking friend.
Your dads construction company? Fine. Anything that has more than one shareholder? Probably would kill you and cover it up if it cost less than it gained them.
Hang on, that’s really cheap for S&M. Or so I’m told. By other people.
the only thing a public company hates more than their own customers are they people they employ
a fan of billionaire owned sports team, i never understood that at all.
i play a variety of sports but don’t watch any, aside from occasionally cheering friends competing in local events
Small businesses are often worse, since there’s less oversight, more willingness to gamble on ‘risks’, a need for higher margins to stay afloat and generally fewer different interests at stake. The issue is private ownership in itself, not how that private ownership is structured.
Knowing some small local business owners I’d say that the problem is that the business reflects the owner’s personality - so you can have a place that respects both its customers and employees or a shithole owned by person too high up their own arse, which is often the case with IT firms.
Made a mistake of working at one, with owners boasting “we were the first ones to do X thing in our market”, whilst the office was a musty basement in middle of nowhere.
Nowadays if I know that certain business is owned by person or group of people I don’t like (be that due to their personal values or affiliations with certain politicians or whatever) I make sure to avoid supporting that business and I spread the message to friends and colleagues.
Yes and it’s embarrassing
Tribalism is baked in, we’re tribal about all kinds of stuff
Fuck you, I’m team non-tribalism!
No, fuck you, I’m on a even more non-tribalistic team!
Sadly, yes
This is going to be like the notch again right? Marketing hides the crease, everyone is surprised when they get one and there is a crease. Outrage, but then no one cares and continues to use the phone.
I refuse to buy phones with holes in screen, my previous phone was redmi k30 ultra, now switched to nubia z70, exactly cause of that reason. So when apple released iphone with that big eyebrow I laughed manically, cause like, who would buy that shit?..
Then they released laptop with same eyebrow notch, that literally served zero purpose (under it only single small camera, no sensors that would require that size of cut in the screen), after that I stopped laughing. It’s not funny anymore, it’s terrifying. It’s like, apple audience trained to buy whatever apple sells them or something. And they will defend it furiously, scary shit.
I’ll wait to see what jerryrigeverything says (I’m expecting a slaughter)
This is the way
But Apple used AI to select the best fitting parts for each individual articulating hinge and frame pairing to keep constant support/tension on the display to allow for a perfectly flat display when open.
They did actually do that according to the hogwash in their event…but it’s still gonna crease.
Fuck that, you still spying through TVs like a perv, Samsung?
Screen cover designed by Apple btw
