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  • kayazere@feddit.nltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Moving from the US to the EU soon... Any advice?
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    2 months ago

    The EU isn’t the US.

    Most countries in Europe have this idea of integration where the foreigner learns and adopts the language and culture of the country. You’ll see lots of discussions of “failed” integration of foreigners, especially in Germany.

    I think this is still a type of colonialism where they think there culture is better and the foreigner must change, rather than the other way around.

    I think the US is a bit better in this regard as there is this idea of a cultural mixing pot and foreigners aren’t expected to “integrate”.

  • kayazere@feddit.nltoApple@lemmy.world•Apple sales fall in nearly all markets
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    8 months ago

    I mentioned game consoles as an example of consumer electronics that function without having yearly updates. This is largely due to giving game devs a performance tagtet to hit, but it shows you don’t need marginal updates every year. Mobile app software could probably benefit from not having better hardware every year, forcing devs to write better software.

    From a software standpoint, iPhones are locked down like gaming consoles, focused on consumption and not general computing devices. Apple controls what software runs on their devices just like Nintendo.

    I think yearly car updates are also wasteful and the car industry has adopted a fashion style model where the changes are mostly atheistic and they try to make people’s cars feel outdated/obsolete and for them to buy a new model. Cars are viewed as a status symbol, so this works.

    Apple has been applying the same play book as the auto industry, though they can actually obsolete hardware through their software.