Lifter

That may lead to over-refactoring, leading to unmaintainable garbage code.

102 times if you count the one before the code.

This is more toxic then funny.

I agree. It's written like "ugh I'm used to timezones, now what?".

No software updates needed if there is no software to begin with...

I think the point is that if it can be sabotaged by a central authority, it sucks. Both Apple and Google suck.

That's not how Apple works at all. They have had iMessage for a long while now and refuse to open up the technology. They want to monopolize the communications so that they can keep controlling it.

My guess is they are just trying to sabotage any attempts at an open standard.

What I mean is that it might not be so simple as not giving them access to it if other institutions persist in forcing it on them.

In Sweden, it was mandatory for kindergartens to have "digital learning tools" up until a year ago. I wonder who came up with that brilliant idea.

That's what they meant by Dark pattern.

But it actually makes sense with technology. If you need help, you want there to be a large community and corpus of knowledge to draw from.

Music is getting worse though. Spotify is bloating all searches with stuff you don't want. The "Artist top songs" is rarely the most popular songs and is limited to 10 song. In the beginning you could list all the songs from an artist and sort it on "Plays".