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The world is being fractured right now into too many individual groups. It used to be that if you strayed to far from the opinions of your peers, you would be isolated, and forced to come back to the center. This restricted freedom, but allowed for unity and made for a stronger, more cohesive and well adjusted population. Nowadays, there is no center. No matter where your individual preferences lead you, there is a group on the internet to validate them. With everyone pursuing different goals and interests, there is no center anymore. This leads to disharmony and chaos. By Apple controlling what you listen to and when, they are attempting to help society. If you, me, and everyone else was excited about the new Miley Cyrus album, think of how much more together we'd be as a whole. We'd have something in common with our physical neighbors, something to talk about and share. Being part of a collective, IRL, is far better than the poor substitute of some Reddit group. In the end, what Apple is doing is helping people. And, I for one, can't see how anyone can so readily dismiss what they are doing as bad, simply because they limit the functionality of their products a little bit. |