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Apple charges one thousand dollars for a phone; twitter is free. Is it unreasonable to expect a lower quality of service? Twitter didn't make its first annual profit until last year, whereas Apple has staggering amounts of cash burning a hole in its pocket.

And after all that, Apple's recent products have been somewhat lackluster. Catalina is currently a dumpster-fire; a friend installed it and had his machine just sit frozen for a while along with a huge number of other problems. Keyboard design, too. Doesn't sound to perfect to me.




However, Apple’s failures don’t affect anyone that hasn’t bought into the ecosystem.

Twitter’s failures on the other hand affect everyone - misinformation spread through their platform can and does affect society at large regardless of whether you’re using Twitter yourself.


It sounds like Twitter needs to charge more. If we (society?) cannot support a free website enough for it to be viable, so be it.




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