Are they really the top of the spear for agenda 2030? Sure they are filled with progressives, but Google, Amazon, and Microsoft seem a bit more aligned in that direction. Apple plays lips service to privacy at least, and I don’t see them playing well into the open database architecture that 2030 would require, unless they were the top of the heap. I guess we’ll see
I will say this for Apple; Spouseanon works for a company that provides the shuttle service for the employees to their main campus. They do this for all the large tech firms in the bay area. These firms as part of the contract. kick in money to cover salaries. When CV started, Apple guaranteed pay, full time, even though all the employees were working from home. FB and Google accounts got let go. (A single share of Google stock would have covered a two week paycheck. It was only something like 30 people.) It was a huge blessing for us to which I thank God everyday.
I’d say, based on what I see in the US, 90% of people’s information comes through a device that’s censored, sorry, “curated.” The iPhone gives google, Facebook, the New York Times, cnn, big pharma, law enforcement, etc. a presence in everyone’s pocket. Take the iPhone out of the equation and the companies who have built the infrastructure over the last 50 years only reach 10% of the people they’re reaching now. And the data they’d be gathering would be worth 10% of what it is now (minus GPS and biometric ID type authenticators). The real nefarious players get front row seats in our lives thanks to Apple’s innocuous looking tech. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Wanted to add wireless banking into that too - how many more decades would it take to implement a monetary reset if apple (and others) hadn’t already acclimated people to using phones to pay?
Are they really the top of the spear for agenda 2030? Sure they are filled with progressives, but Google, Amazon, and Microsoft seem a bit more aligned in that direction. Apple plays lips service to privacy at least, and I don’t see them playing well into the open database architecture that 2030 would require, unless they were the top of the heap. I guess we’ll see
I will say this for Apple; Spouseanon works for a company that provides the shuttle service for the employees to their main campus. They do this for all the large tech firms in the bay area. These firms as part of the contract. kick in money to cover salaries. When CV started, Apple guaranteed pay, full time, even though all the employees were working from home. FB and Google accounts got let go. (A single share of Google stock would have covered a two week paycheck. It was only something like 30 people.) It was a huge blessing for us to which I thank God everyday.
I’d say, based on what I see in the US, 90% of people’s information comes through a device that’s censored, sorry, “curated.” The iPhone gives google, Facebook, the New York Times, cnn, big pharma, law enforcement, etc. a presence in everyone’s pocket. Take the iPhone out of the equation and the companies who have built the infrastructure over the last 50 years only reach 10% of the people they’re reaching now. And the data they’d be gathering would be worth 10% of what it is now (minus GPS and biometric ID type authenticators). The real nefarious players get front row seats in our lives thanks to Apple’s innocuous looking tech. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Wanted to add wireless banking into that too - how many more decades would it take to implement a monetary reset if apple (and others) hadn’t already acclimated people to using phones to pay?