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> It is well documented that this is not at all what people desire from technology. What people buy directly contradicts this. Of course, people can only buy w
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
> It is well documented that this is not at all what people desire from technology. What people buy directly contradicts this.
Of course, people can only buy what the market provides — and the market will exclusively (or at least disproportionately) provide the most profitable things. So market behavior isn't necessarily the best proxy for people's preferences in aggregate.
- derbOac 6y agoThis is what I find so ironic about the market as revealed choice argument. This whole discussion is happening in the shadow of the M1 systems and Apple's increasingly controllling behavior. It's not as if Apple is offering an unlocked version of an M1 laptop alongside the locked version. This gets even more tricky in discussing other things, like messaging, that have network effects. There it's not just what's offered, and my preference, that matters, but also other people's past options and choices.