Apple's control-freakery is making the Internet of Shit shittier

This is my current Mac, which is turned on 8 to ten hours a day on weekdays, and which is currently playing afghan-american fusion jazz by Shawn Quaissanee.

It is a security nightmare.

In the same room are devices older than that mac, that I have no problem securing.

Apple’s incredibly short product lifecycle and premium-priced hipster design values are great if you are in the top 10% - 20% income bracket. But don’t pretend you aren’t hyperprivileged; your belief in the security of your devices fundamentally rests on the fact that you can spend more than the poors.

I took the picture above with a $50 nokia windows phone that my employers bought for me. During the time I’ve had it, my daughter’s spent a thousand dollars on her currently-supported iPhone (she earned the money waiting tables and running split-rail fence.)

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