I’m trying to imagine voluntarily buying a device that all but prohibits you from choosing the software you run on it. A limit of 2-3 apps, which have to be re-signed weekly by a desktop server, to me that doesn’t count as “supporting sideloading.” Maybe technically. What a joke.

“Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!” -Android users

Wait… You can sideload on ios? Since when?

Yep! The police, being fascists, HATE this.

Ofc, Apple being Apple, I wouldn’t put it past them to artificially “break” things or arbitrarily introduce limits between RCS and iMessage

That’s where my money is

They probably will. They’re aware of and actively foster the “in-group” psychology that plays out in youth social circles. Anyone with a non-Apple phone is excluded as lower class, weird, or less-than. You don’t get included in the group chats that are often the center of your peers’ social lives because no one wants the annoyance of dealing with the limitations of conversing with a green bubble. You must conform, purchase the correct products, and sign over your life to the correct social media platforms if you want to participate in society.

Here are several studies, I have not read all of them but they are what I found:

https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/items/277e3219-85d2-41ac-92f3-4ac3745c1d58

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/16/8820

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.641673/full

https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/tiktok-and-the-death-of-the-attention-span/

Tik Tok’s design clearly taps into psychological principles that drive addiction. The infinite scroll and unpredictable content rewards work like slot machines in a dopamine-driven feedback loop. This keeps users glued to their screens, often without realizing how much time has passed. The For You feed continuously adapts to like a million data tracking points, and spits out a constant stream of whatever content it deems most likely to keep you scrolling. Neuroscientists have pointed out that heavy TikTok use can reduce attention spans and increase the need for instant gratification which are effects tied to dopamine stimulation. Obviously bytedance isn’t going to publicize the proprietary research they used to accomplish this. But the app clearly uses these engagement-maximizing techniques. That also goes for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit (they wish lol) and the rest of them. But in tiktok’s case, it’s an export from an adversarial nation, and you only need to look at the internally approved version of tiktok for Chinese users, which promotes a completely different kind of content.

Good Lord. Was Dungeons and Dragons conceived and engineered from the ground up for the specific purpose of exploiting the dopamine pathways in children’s brains? Not so much. Sounds like tiktok has successfully eroded the minds of others in this thread.

The kids are exposed to these hyper addictive algorithms, and the garbage content that gains ubiquity as a result, from a super young age. There is no way it’s not screwing up development.

Production cost for a full length album STARTS at around $10-15k.

That’s a lot more than “zero” in my book.

I dropped Instagram, and couldn’t be happier to have left that cesspool behind. No Facebook, no Instagram, no Tik Tok, no Snapchat, no LinkedIn, no no no. I’m done with the bullshit. Need to contact me? Then you probably already have my phone number, text or call. Don’t have my number? Sounds like you probably don’t need to get in touch with me, then.

… Yarrrrr mateys

It’s a strategy to push customers toward the more expensive models. Their markup is massive, it’s a blatant profit move.