Big tech uses clever EULA "End User Licensing Agreements" that upon 1st activation of a new device you must click "OK" "I Have Read" or "I Agree" to the terms and conditions described in long winded legal jargon that few if anyone actually reads completely and or slowly enough to actually make sense of what they are agreeing too.
Selling Your Soul to Satan
In most cases, saying "yes, I agree" at the first startup of a new electronic device, you, the user, are giving some large tech company invasive legal rights to own and control anything you do on your device, images, messages, videos, music, browsing history, you are giving away all your personal legal rights and all your privacy of any kind to a for profit, sociopathic, revenue focused, cringy, capitalistic, corporation that has divergent or strange motifs or motivations that probably do not align with your life or rights or legal rights or human rights or right to privacy, liberty or justice, instead your letting arrogant sleazy evil people who worship money to digitally pimp you in a variety of disturbing, inappropriate, disgusting ways.
Selling Your Personal Data Online
Usually "they" just sell your data to data brokers to make money on your persona, your personality, your search history, your phone and social security numbers, how much money you have, where you work, how much money you make, when and where you spend your money and on what, notice all those loyalty programs, enter your phone number for a discount, that is all designed to collect deeply personal information about you and your life, its actually illegal, but these large tech companies have been extensively deregulating the worlds governments to allow them to traffic your personal information for profit generation.
Greedy Capitalism Rules the Big Tech World
It is all about the money if you summarize at the highest levels, in part because elections are so expensive, they only people who can donated enough money for anyone to become a diplomat, is if they take money from big tech companies in exchange for special favors, which in many cases amount to rubber stamping laws written by lobbyists working for big tech, noting Amazon.com has 1151 lobbyists, can you imagine what that giant e-commerce monopoly that controls 95% of all online sales in the G20 is actively doing to keep itself in that cringy immoral position?
Personal Disclosure
I shop on amazon.com, have a PRIME subscription, who doesn't, even many homeless people use the Amazon Lockers to order online on their smartphones with the Amazon App, which works on iOS or Android respectively, but also on windows PC's, Mac OS, Linux, Chrome OS Books, Tablets, Even able to order with voice over Echo devices connected to your Prime subscription, incredibly. They also have 1-click ordering options, same day delivery. & While EBAY and Alibaba provide competition to Amazon, in effect most e-commerce companies are like small insects in a world where Amazon a giant Gorilla of immense strength. Speaking of computer company Gorilla's, Intel & Microsoft were so intertwined during the 1980 and 1990s that many so called Personal Desktop Computers amounted to a Wintel, Intel CPU and mainboard logic, Windows operating system, effectively a giant tech duopoly. Today alphabet inc the parent company of Google and Meta the parent company of Facebook have formed a virtual duopoly, though you can easily make the case that Apple, TSMC and ASML together are giant global triad of Big Tech MONEY, though amongst Tech companies, Apple shines as one of the least offending privacy violators, and actually make a praise worthy effort to protect use data, better than any other company in big tech, by a lot too.
Older Laptop Keeps Working
I am typing up this blog posting on an acer laptop from 2014 that was purchased at Costco for $650 US2014, if we adjust for inflation, $650 in 2014 equal to $914.36 in 2026, incredibly my vastly higher performance ASUS F17 gaming laptop in 2020 was only $999. Notice how with computers with time, you get more bang for your buck even as inflation slowly continually steals your buying power. I remember seeing a 3MB hard drive for sale for $999 at a computer store in Seattle, in the early 1990s as a kid, riding in the back seat of my friend Alex's mothers car, a 1990 Honda Accord sedan. At the computer history museum at Intel's corporate headquarters in California, you can see hard drives the size of a clothes washing machine that cost $300,000 US in 1960, or millions of dollars in todays funny fiat currency.
From HDD to SSD, Now SOC Integrated Memory & Controller
I believe the smallest commercial mass manufactured spinning disk hard-drive was made in a 1.8-inch format by IBM for the OG Apple iPod Classic. Today most laptops, tablets and smartphones have solid state storage, that means they safe your photos, videos, documents or other content on triple Nand-flash, SSD technology, often part of the SOC on a Smartphone, though dedicated memory chips are used for expanded storage, and SSD's have high performance controller chips to move data IO at incredible speeds locally on your device.
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