[mordymoop]

The worst possible condemnation of a powerful national government: to compare its normal everyday functioning to a corporate product launch. Orwell was too optimistic.

[toxik]

Eh, it was just a more relatable example. If anything, it shows you that our idea of oppression is Apple overstating their product's capabilities.

[zepto]

The Orwellian part is people talking as though it’s a fact that Apple is overstating something.

As far as I can see that’s bullshit.

They say what they are measuring, and people do check it.

They’d be open to straight up legal action from both customers and shareholders if they were lying.

[mhh__]

The Orwell's of the future will be writing about China and western social media (and a bit of Apple thrown in there)