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points by reitzensteinm 1 day ago | 0 comments

Call me naive but I see this as the opposite. 1984 would be my phone downloading extreme opinions and suggesting that they be my own.

Maybe this isn’t the right answer, and in general the Apple walled garden is gross. But as an iPhone user this feels to me like my device is acting in my interests.

[–] cisc 1 day ago

> He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Apple acts in Apple's interests. They want to autocomplete phrases, but they don't want those phrases to cause them PR problems.