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Amen, hallelujah, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc With that out of the way: > Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft can help solve the problem, because keeping people hooked
by nothrabannosir 9y ago
Amen, hallelujah, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
With that out of the way:
> Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft can help solve the problem, because keeping people hooked to the screen isn’t their business model.
Isn't it? "How often do I use my phone, and how much does the price work out to in $/minute used?" is a real metric I consciously use to determine how expensive a phone I can buy. If I only used my phone for calling, texting, maps and e-mail, I would buy the cheapest phone possible. But the more apps I use, the more sense it makes to get a more expensive phone.
I assume most people would act the same way, in the end, no? That sounds like a pretty significant issue with this position they're taking. Or is it not relevant?
- gaius 9y agoThe big 5 is a misleading concept because Microsoft, Apple and Amazon make money by providing actual products and services. The whole sleazy attention-economy stuff could be outlawed tomorrow and they wouldn’t skip a beat. Unlike the other two.
- IntronExon 9y agoAmazon in particular has AWS, I think as a majority of profit. Apple and MS might care due to secondary effects, such as a reduced rate of mobile device replacement? It would probably not matter too much though, and they could adapt. FB and Google would just implode with a wet thuck.
- skybrian 9y agoI suspect Google could get a lot of people to pay for a "Google Prime" subscription if they had to.
- IntronExon 9y agoSub to what? Their search engine? I’d rather use DDG most days without Google trying to charge me. To something like YouTube? How is YouTube Red going?
- twothamendment 9y agoYouTube what? I guess I just made your point.
- voltagex_ 9y agoCounterpoint: I subbed to YouTube Red because I watch hours of content per week (pretty much replaced all OTA TV for me) and I didn't want to see ads any more.
- skybrian 9y agoSearch engine + maps + docs. Yes, there are others (just like there are alternatives to Amazon) but my bet is that most people would rather pay than switch. (That's entirely speculative on my part, but I don't think a few people preferring DDG is a compelling argument. There are alternatives to Amazon Prime too.)
- IntronExon 9y agoYou’re not really pretending that Prime isn’t first and foremost, about shipping products, right? Google exists because people are slow to associate non-monetary costs with their services. I mean, I think Bing is a bad joke, but Google erecting a paywall would be a gift to MS, and Apple. Fortunately I can’t believe that anyone at Google believes more than a fraction of a fraction of their current user base would pay.
- gaius 9y agoWhen I heard about YouTube Red I honestly believed YouTube had bought Redtube