Apple’s most valuable intangible asset isn’t its patents or copyrights - it’s an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple’s shareholders.

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

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  • gz@sfba.social
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    11 months ago

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr
    I wish Mastodon had a way to collapse/hide these long threads. I read and enjoy them on the blog but still have to scroll through pages and pages of posts, sometimes missing other people’s which have become embedded.
    Is there something I’m missing (using an Android phone)?