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As someone who bought and paid for their products (including two hardware dongles), I’m glad Apple developed Sidecar. It’s faster, more stable, and generally wo
by jsjohnst 6y ago
As someone who bought and paid for their products (including two hardware dongles), I’m glad Apple developed Sidecar. It’s faster, more stable, and generally works better for my use case. If their product was better, I’d definitely still use it, as I sank a lot of money into it, but it’s not to me. If a customer pays around a hundred dollars (I think that’s right, need to check) for your product and then decides to use a free alternative, what’s that say about your product?
Not to be callus, but “when your entire business is adding a feature to a platform that can be added easily by the platform provider, you have no real business” is a saying that’s been around for a long time for a reason.
- Bud 6y agoJust to add to this, it was always an extremely obvious use case to use any external device with a nice display as, well, a display, perhaps for another device. Pretending that you're Edison when all you did was to enable an already-obvious use case, and then whining when someone else also enables that use case, kinda strains credulity. Accusing Apple of doing something untoward, or even surprising, here, is just silly.
- jsjohnst 6y ago> Pretending that you're Edison when all you did was to enable an already-obvious use case Not sure if you were aware, but your analogy is more fitting than it seems on a quick read. Sir Joseph Swan was an early inventor of the lightbulb (he, like Edison wasn’t the first, but his was earlier than Edison). Swan had moderate success with his lightbulb, but Edison’s proved to be superior in the market and ultimately won. In that analogy, I think Luna is Sir Joseph Swan and Apple is Edison.