Apple is closing a trio of retail stores this summer, including its first location to unionize.
  • orgrinrt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    3 months ago

    I can live with most of the other stuff, since the quality is good and they are hassle-free devices with Unix-like conventions, they last long, feel fantastic to use; Despite the price, despite the ring-kissing of Trump, despite being a mega corporate spreading its capitalistic cancer across the globe… all because the alternatives have been even worse.

    Union busting is where I draw the line though, no matter if it’s in the sale or manufacturing or design side or whatever. This is the first one I hear about, I’ve not been aware of any earlier instances, mostly because I don’t follow stuff so tightly, I am almost certain it has happened before, but now that I have it in front of my eyes I can no longer abide it in my blissful ignorance.

    This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today.

    I encourage others to consider the same.

    Not really sure what I’ll do after these current devices die on me, but now it’s clear to me it can’t be apple. Google’s been dead to me a long time, same for Sony, Samsung, most other big players.

    I guess we’ll see what the landscape is like in 5 years.

    Fuck this. Fuck apple. Fuck me.

    • cunnililgus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Consider Fairphone. You pay a bit more for mid tier device, but hopefully (and so far seemingly) the money is being well spent.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      This marks the day they lost me as a long-term customer. Perhaps ought to have happened earlier, but for me, it happened today. I encourage others to consider the same.

      I mean I’ve never been an Apple customer. At least not since the OG iPods. But what company are you going to move to that wouldn’t do the exact same thing in that situation?

      Apple is uniquely shitty in having endless contempt for their own customers, which is why I’ve always avoided them. But this just seems like kind of a weird “last straw”. But hey, anyone boycotting Apple has my support.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        mostly thier walled garden kept people away, but they dumbed it down enough for people to get addicted to it.

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      My industry has a lot of Apple laptop users for the reasons you mention. Every time I pull out my Zenbook Duo, I hear converts in the making. Sure, it’s a bit thick, but it runs Linux great and has two monitors in a portable platform with a good battery.

    • laz@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      We have different lines, but yours is respectable. It’s sad that Android is also enshitifying.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    3 months ago

    Rich pedophiles really will close entire stores, losing 100% of profits from them, rather than let them unionize, losing potentially 5% of profits short-term.

    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      100% of profits from 3 stores vs the risk of all their employees in the entire company having leverage for all future compensation negotiations.

        • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
          12·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, it’s about power and control, not money. Companies don’t want employees challenging their power structure. Employees are cogs to them, and cogs don’t get a say in what machine they are crushed in.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    And that’s why companies should have a limit to growth. They become authoritarian countries at some point.

    Edit: typo

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    following the starbucks method, ive seen a couple SB around me suddenly closed overnight, in a high traffic area(conference events every week), they likely smelled a potential union talks going on in some of the shops. the ones in target are not likely affected by it. we know they send “snooping agents” to certain stores.

    • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Sorry man. We don’t accept any of that talk here. Google and Microsoft are corporations and we don’t like those. It’s Linux all the way, no matter how horribly inconvenient that would be in practice.