[bergstromm466]

> a pretty gnarly bug in GMail

My critique has less to do with bugs or with the programmers who are coding these apps, and more to do with the parasitic business models and the proprietary underlying functions and capabilities that these engineers are asked to implement by the Venture Capitalist-backed Silicon Valley-startups they work for. Or more precisely, my critique has to do with the dynamics of the corporatocracy and technocracy and how it relates to our economic system, including the effects on humanity's health and the health of our planet.

[thundermuffin]

I actually agreed with you that the way Facebook and other companies abuse their acquired / spun off companies and toss them aside when it gets heated is wrong, and that it definitely has an impact on the entire tech ecosystem, including just consumers of tech; originally, you asked how you could separate apps from each other, and the only reason I included the statement about GMail was to give more insight on how I viewed the topic, but it looks like it didn't matter since only six words of my response is what you took away.

I don't think we'll be able to really have a good discourse on this since we're approaching it from two different areas of discussion, but I appreciate your response.