“An evil corporation is a term which frequently appears in science fiction and or dystopian works to refer to corporations that ignore ethics, morality, laws and social responsibility in order to make a profit for its shareholders.”
Just thought everybody should know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_corporation
Also, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japan)
Do you work for an Evil Corporation? Do you know anybody that works for an Evil Corporation?
Would you work for an Evil Corporation?
Are people that work at Evil Corporations evil people?
Google, as noted in the article, took “Don’t be evil” out of their credo like taking down a warrant canary long after they stopped trying to be good.
Android was invented because a hobbyist, Andy Rubin, heard Steve Jobs say the iPhone will run OS X (what is now known as macOS). So he figured he could make a Linux distro for phones. It was never gonna go anywhere because he’d need hardware partners and more resources than he had. But he did make it. Google bought it because they saw the potential for more data collection than they could achieve with Gmail. Today, Google makes a phone (“Pixel”) that lags behind the iPhone in performance by several years, collects a ton of data, which Google recently valuated at around $1700/year/person on average… and somehow costs the same as the current iPhone. And what’s worse, they have people online advocating for buying them! Meanwhile, while the iPhone maintains Steve Jobs’ original vision of an end-to-end closed ecosystem (in the Macintosh), it’s still basically just a pocket Macintosh. It does run macOS, just a stripped down, limited version of it.
Windows Phone was a thing for a couple years, but it never didn’t suck.
Linux phones are a thing in Europe, but they’re few and far between, and they lag behind the iPhone in performance. While you can technically install any app from the web or from internal storage after downloading it, there aren’t that many apps available for it. Despite the fact that most people don’t use their phone app as the primary phone, phones are still phone-sized. I mean nobody’s sticking a cellular modem in a Steam Deck and putting a phone on it. A Steam Deck, or the Asus ROG Ally X (the handheld Xbox) could be “phones” that don’t run iOS or Android and have a ton of apps (games), but no one’s trying that for some reason. Why can’t a Steam Deck be my next phone? Hell, why can’t my MacBook be a phone? Why should it be a 6-7" brick that fits in my pocket?
If Valve had the foresight to put a modem in the Steam Deck, you wouldn’t need any other computer in your life