Most of the ideas in the book were not new to me. I have been reading Cory and Pluralistic since quite some time now.

Most of the ideas in this book, were first essays on his blog. It was fun listening to the enshittificatory tendencies of big tech.

It was also fun catching myself trying to defend Apple.

I don’t have to agree with everything the book says though. So that’s OK.

I do not agree with a lot of stuff Apple does, for example, the App Store policies, and right to repair. But I am on Apple’s side on the iMessage-Beeper debacle.

Apple does not owe it to anyone to give away services for free. Hosting the service costs money. They can give it away for free for their customers. Not for everyone else.

Also RCS is shit.

A good read though, maybe more so for the normies in our lives.