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		superkuh on April 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta Horizon OS This entire thing is newspeak. Every headline means the opposite. For example, "A More Open App Ecosystem" means a more closed application ecosystem. By switching to a proprietary OS and setting up a walled garden where they have to approve all software you can run. This is part of the coming war on general computation.

tempodox on April 23, 2024 [–]

> This is part of the coming war on general computation.

Coming? I'd say it's already full on. Apple's malicious compliance with the DMA is one part of it, for instance. Of course others try to imitate.

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