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It has nothing to do with altruism, it's about selling directly to the person using the product vs selling to someone who forces other people to use the product
by extension 16y ago
It has nothing to do with altruism, it's about selling directly to the person using the product vs selling to someone who forces other people to use the product. Even if the seller is acting primarily out of self interest, users are going to end up much happier buying something because they like it, and not because forces out of their control have conspired to make it their only viable option.
EDIT: here, straight from the horse's mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=22hEtutXybw#t=520s http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
- encoderer 16y agoApple wouldn't be in existence without the billions it made volume selling to schools. From grammar school to graduate school I was forced to use an Apple/Mac. Your comment, while mostly fiction IMO, does have a nice storyline.
- extension 16y agoWere you forced to buy one because your school had one? Was the school forced to buy them so they could interoperate with some other system?
- cookiecaper 16y agoWhy do you keep insisting that people are "forced" to buy these things? Nobody has been forced to buy Microsoft. If your job required a Microsoft product, and you didn't want to buy Microsoft products, you could find a new job. You were not forced to buy from Microsoft any more than anyone has been "forced" to buy from Apple. I've known plenty of people whose jobs didn't even require the use of a computer; if you are so picky about the software you use, perhaps you could consider a line of work that doesn't involve much computer usage.