Comparing Apple managing the content they distribute with living under a totalitarian government is pretty ridiculous. If you don't like it, don't distribute on their platform. Just because you want to develop for a platform that has a large audience doesn't mean Apple rules the world and needs to be rebelled against.
Would it be nice if Apple didn't censor the App Store? Yeah. Should you be angry or surprised when that doesn't happen? Dude...
We live in a digital age. Philosophers and theologians have been moving to social media to make their points about ethics etc. because books no longer reach an audience. Placing good business before a message about how people matter is pretty much a definition of a totalitarian government.
Apple isn't stopping him from saying what he wants to say. They're controlling the content that they distribute. Apple doesn't have a responsibility to give him a podium to stand on, and he doesn't have a right to use their distribution service for anything he wants. Apple gets to make those terms and exercise their own discretion.
If Apple was actively trying to stop his message from appearing in places outside of their own jurisdiction, you might have something a little closer to a totalitarian government. But even then, Apple isn't the government. The kind of self-victimizing and hyperbole he's exercising isn't exactly helping him out here.
Comparing Apple managing the content they distribute with living under a totalitarian government is pretty ridiculous. If you don't like it, don't distribute on their platform. Just because you want to develop for a platform that has a large audience doesn't mean Apple rules the world and needs to be rebelled against.
Would it be nice if Apple didn't censor the App Store? Yeah. Should you be angry or surprised when that doesn't happen? Dude...
SWG has its share of issues, but at least it's set in the part of Star Wars that was actually good. You tell me you've made an MMO based on the prequel trilogy and you've already failed in my eyes.
Old Republic isn't in the prequel trilogy either…
My point is that they're making Star Wars content based on parts of Star Wars that there is very little love for. I know it's set thousands of years before the prequel trilogy, but Bioware forging their own little niche in Star Wars history that's so far away from anything I can recognize as canon isn't exactly a good way to make me go "Fuck yeah, I love Star Wars," is it?
This Canon has been around and loved by many since 2003.
I guess maybe I should play kotor before I decide not to give a shit about TOR, but at a certain point I feel like Bioware has just moved themselves so far away from the things I love about Star Wars that it just doesn't even feel like Star Wars to me. Seeing lightsabers and dudes with tentacle hair isn't enough for me.
SWG has its share of issues, but at least it's set in the part of Star Wars that was actually good. You tell me you've made an MMO based on the prequel trilogy and you've already failed in my eyes.
Old Republic isn't in the prequel trilogy either…
My point is that they're making Star Wars content based on parts of Star Wars that there is very little love for. I know it's set thousands of years before the prequel trilogy, but Bioware forging their own little niche in Star Wars history that's so far away from anything I can recognize as canon isn't exactly a good way to make me go "Fuck yeah, I love Star Wars," is it?
SWG has its share of issues, but at least it's set in the part of Star Wars that was actually good. You tell me you've made an MMO based on the prequel trilogy and you've already failed in my eyes.
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