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Talking about mobile devices, you can't simply "go to Android". What you are purchasing when you pay Apple's fees are access to a userbase (among other things l
by ryanisnan 6y ago
Talking about mobile devices, you can't simply "go to Android". What you are purchasing when you pay Apple's fees are access to a userbase (among other things like the ecosystem). If you switch to Android, you are no longer buying the same product.
Talking about things like bricks, it would be more like if Home Depot was the only brick seller, and if you didn't like their brick terms, you could leave and buy instead 2x4s elsewhere.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThe analogy that seems to make the most sense is a regional monopoly. You want to sell your bricks, Home Depot is the only retailer in the state of California but Lowes has a store in New York. Somebody says "just sell them to Lowes" but in fact you already sell them to Lowes and Home Depot and Lowes is not going to buy any more than they already do if you stop selling to Home Depot, because the customers who can no longer find your bricks at Home Depot would have to move house to another state in order to buy them from Lowes.
- ryanisnan 6y agoI like that analogy.