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I love this comic strip as a whole, but yeah. Gender is not the anvil upon which to pound this.
I was going to say that I'm a bit surprised that the characters use Apple products, given their (the characters') politics.
I'm not the biggest fan of Google, but I still have a Pixel and use Google Maps. It's not always easy (enough) to shape your purchases to your preferences exactly.
There is no ethical consumption under Capitalism anyway, so it's all shades of grey.
Well, I don't use G either. Or Microsoft. I did used to have a Home back when they first came out, but Google started being obvious about being evil around that time and I gave it to my MIL.
Echo, Siri, Google - they're all bad, and even less necessary than smart phones. You can make a decent, quantifiable argument about the quality-of-life differences a smart phone, wisely used, can make. There are few, mostly accessability related, arguments for the whole-home surveillance devices. They're absolutely a boon for accessability, and I wouldn't take that away, but otherwise it's a minor convenience most of the world manages to live without.
Damning the man is one thing, giving up a convenience is another.
And that's all it is: a capitalist, predatory, minor convenience. Again, I'm surprised these characters use them.
Agreed. Siri (and auto-generated playlists in general) sucks for a lot of reasons, and gender almost certainly in there, but I doubt it is the primary driver.