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This might surprise you, but very few people even look under the hoods of their cars. This even includes non-Mac users.
by Volt 10y ago
This might surprise you, but very few people even look under the hoods of their cars. This even includes non-Mac users.
- schoen 10y agoThere used to be a free software advocacy slogan explicitly asking "would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?". An intuition behind that analogy, I think, is that people will appreciate the importance of being allowed to do car maintenance even if they don't do it: that non-car-tinkerers will still see the value in having a hood that they can open. For example, they'll want to be able to choose others to perform the maintenance or not be dependent on the manufacturer in an emergency. Maybe sufficiently Apple-like car companies will succeed in changing that intuition or have already changed it quite a bit?