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sorry, how that change our sympathy to the phrasing exactly? The whole point of having users captive, is that you can offer the crappiest option and charge for
by lurkerasdfh8 5y ago
sorry, how that change our sympathy to the phrasing exactly?
The whole point of having users captive, is that you can offer the crappiest option and charge for it. And by charging for it you restrict who (and how) have access to it.
- mschaef 5y agoI still like what I wrote initially: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107735 The tl;dr is that this architecture imposed costs on essentially everybody involved in software and offered benefits that were abstract at best. I didn't always see the costs, and I placed too much value on what I perceived to be the benefits.