▲ 173 ▼ Nvidia deliberately kept GPU prices high through circular financing deals (www.techspot.com) submitted 20 hours ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments Comments
[–] Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 1 point 6 hours ago (2 children) And why is that? What do they do that's pro consumer? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] dudeface@lemmy.world 1 point 6 hours ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago They make the hardware, of course their own software is well supported in it. Completely closed source and no independent privacy auditing means their marketing determines how people view their privacy features. They have never proven it. They own the walled garden, the users are just guests. They don't "sell your data to advertisers", but they do "share your data with partners". So not much of a difference. There are tons of actual, provable anti-consumer practices. Feel free to google it yourself, but this article is a good primer, with sources. https://truthout.org/articles/apple-leads-smartphone-industry-into-anti-consumer-environmental-hell/ permalink fedilink source parent
[+] dudeface@lemmy.world 1 point 6 hours ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago They make the hardware, of course their own software is well supported in it. Completely closed source and no independent privacy auditing means their marketing determines how people view their privacy features. They have never proven it. They own the walled garden, the users are just guests. They don't "sell your data to advertisers", but they do "share your data with partners". So not much of a difference. There are tons of actual, provable anti-consumer practices. Feel free to google it yourself, but this article is a good primer, with sources. https://truthout.org/articles/apple-leads-smartphone-industry-into-anti-consumer-environmental-hell/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago They make the hardware, of course their own software is well supported in it. Completely closed source and no independent privacy auditing means their marketing determines how people view their privacy features. They have never proven it. They own the walled garden, the users are just guests. They don't "sell your data to advertisers", but they do "share your data with partners". So not much of a difference. There are tons of actual, provable anti-consumer practices. Feel free to google it yourself, but this article is a good primer, with sources. https://truthout.org/articles/apple-leads-smartphone-industry-into-anti-consumer-environmental-hell/ permalink fedilink source parent