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Apple’s deprecation of hdiutil in macOS 27 Golden Gate isn’t a technical upgrade; it’s a deliberate assertion of power. By moving the exact same functionality to diskutil while breaking decades of stable legacy scripts, Apple is systematically eliminating terminal reliance. It’s not about fixing bugs—it’s about forcing power users into their walled garden and asserting total control over the OS.
The myth of Silicon Valley is built on counterculture rebels fighting the establishment. But when Steve Jobs’ NeXT was failing, he didn’t turn to the market—he quietly took covert funding from the CIA. The iPhone you use today isn’t a triumph of pure entrepreneurial genius; it’s a byproduct of the national security state.
Intel’s plan to integrate DRAM with the CPU isn’t the architectural breakthrough they claim. It’s essentially a rebranded L4 cache masking a desperate attempt to re-enter DRAM manufacturing and mimic Apple’s vertical integration. Here’s why it’s a supply chain hedge, not a tech revolution.
Apple just added ‘classic’ movies like The Martian and Arrival to its free ad-supported tier. But this isn’t a gift—it’s a Trojan horse designed to train its premium, ad-averse user base to accept commercials. The generational disconnect over what counts as a ‘classic’ is intentional, and the broken links only prove the real aim is behavioral conditioning, not user generosity.
Nvidia just doubled the price of its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU to $16,000 — a move that has nothing to do with performance and everything to do with monopolistic control. Meanwhile, Apple’s Mac Studio offers 96GB of unified memory for $5,299, but CUDA’s lock-in keeps developers trapped. This is a declaration of war on independent AI developers, and the future of who gets to build the next generation of models hangs in the balance.
The smartwatch wars are no longer about specs or UI—they are about predictive metabolic health and FDA navigation. Google’s Pixel Watch 5 is aggressively pushing insulin resistance tracking, outpacing Apple’s cautious medical approach. But this life-saving tech forces a dark paradox: you must surrender your most intimate biometric data to a tech monopoly to get it.
Apple’s increasing lockdown of macOS and constraints on local AI tooling are pushing developers toward a breaking point. The friction of staying on Mac—fighting notarization, permissions, and AI limitations—has finally exceeded the friction of switching to Linux. The parabolic migration DHH predicts won’t happen because Linux got better, but because Apple made the Mac worse for the people who build things with it.
Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program looks like a zero-interest loan, but it’s actually a loyalty leash that turns a $1,000 phone into a recurring subscription. Over three years, you’ll pay 50% more than the cash price and never own a device. The real genius? A refurbished supply chain that lets Apple sell the same phone twice. The standard trade-in route gives you more optionality — and saves you hundreds.
The outrage over an Apple billboard in Italy showing a toddler with an iPhone isn’t about protecting children. It’s about parental guilt. We hate the ad because it holds up a mirror to our own hypocrisy—handing our kids screens to buy ourselves silence, then blaming tech giants for our lack of self-control.
Anti-tech rhetoric has become a luxury belief: a way to signal moral superiority without sacrificing the convenience of the very products you condemn. This article exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of modern tech criticism, arguing that the real problem isn’t technology itself – it’s our unwillingness to acknowledge our own dependency. By pretending to be above the system, we actually feed it. The only honest path forward is to stop performing and start making real choices.