Let's not forget that data & community are the most important currencies for these platforms. More and more companies are open-sourcing their front-ends.
When I read Hacker News I want to see inspiring articles about tech, not these puerile, low-T debates about "racism in America". God, I'm glad I'm not American. What a pathetic country it has become really. I can smell its stench from the other side of the Atlantic.
oh man... if they remove the touch bar I will be so happy. I have a macbook pro 2015 and I was planning to replace it next year with the M1 16 inches. That would be the perfect timing. Generation 2015 powa!
No. Leftists love the argument of "they are private companies, they have the right to refuse customers". But Google and Apple are monopolies.
And AWS may not be a monopoly, but we know very well that if Parler moves to another big Cloud provider they will also cut them off. Sure, they can host their own servers. But it's anti-competitive practice, all the modern devops tooling that facilitates the work of engineers is based on knowing that you will use a cloud platform like AWS.
This debate is pretty puerile anyway, anyone with a brain knows that the gradually worsening censorship of Western countries is wrong and that it's becoming more and more totalitarian day by day.