It seems weird to expect that OS vendors are particularly more aligned with your preferences than app vendors are. You actually have more control over apps—it’s possible to use different ones without building your own hardware and writing your own drivers. Don’t like the bundle of behaviors that an app presents? don’t use it. There are fewer OSes to choose from, and they tend to group together harder-to-replicate functionality in a way that you can’t really pick and choose very well.
I’m totally with you that I don’t much care for the way current social media platforms (including apps and data-handling outside of apps) work, but I’m not sure what the alternative is, for things where almost everyone I want to interact with is captured by them, and there’s no coordination point to change it. Compare with limited choice in options on a political ballot—I hate it, but I don’t think the equilibrium has a good leverage point to improve.
I don’t expect OS vendors are more aligned, but it might be a more achievable political goal to get them aligned, since there’s a smaller number of them. (I’m not sure if this is true, just a hypothesis)
The limited choices is not good, but they’re at least competing on the overall experience rather than just engagement inside of a browser. In my experience, OSes seem to have more usability features than social apps do. (night mode, do not disturb, etc.)
It seems weird to expect that OS vendors are particularly more aligned with your preferences than app vendors are. You actually have more control over apps—it’s possible to use different ones without building your own hardware and writing your own drivers. Don’t like the bundle of behaviors that an app presents? don’t use it. There are fewer OSes to choose from, and they tend to group together harder-to-replicate functionality in a way that you can’t really pick and choose very well.
I’m totally with you that I don’t much care for the way current social media platforms (including apps and data-handling outside of apps) work, but I’m not sure what the alternative is, for things where almost everyone I want to interact with is captured by them, and there’s no coordination point to change it. Compare with limited choice in options on a political ballot—I hate it, but I don’t think the equilibrium has a good leverage point to improve.
I don’t expect OS vendors are more aligned, but it might be a more achievable political goal to get them aligned, since there’s a smaller number of them. (I’m not sure if this is true, just a hypothesis)
The limited choices is not good, but they’re at least competing on the overall experience rather than just engagement inside of a browser. In my experience, OSes seem to have more usability features than social apps do. (night mode, do not disturb, etc.)