I hate the euphemism of “joining”. It’s not a happy union of two groups of like-minded people deciding to pool their resources to better do what they do.
It’s one set of suits paying another set of suits a boatload of money to fuck off, then firing half the people who created the value that made it worth to talk about in the first place.
Acquisitions are not a happy sunshine and rainbows thing, it’s one corporation devouring another to gorge itself ever bigger.
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[CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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Or how about we don’t link to marketing articles then??
The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.
I hate the euphemism of “joining”. It’s not a happy union of two groups of like-minded people deciding to pool their resources to better do what they do.
It’s one set of suits paying another set of suits a boatload of money to fuck off, then firing half the people who created the value that made it worth to talk about in the first place.
Acquisitions are not a happy sunshine and rainbows thing, it’s one corporation devouring another to gorge itself ever bigger.
That wouldn’t make for very good marketing
The thing is that we read so much marketing that it colours our world views too much. Companies only ever do good and happy things.
Apple is a cute little name. If we called them Malus (latin name for genus of apples), we might think differently about them.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.