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People buy overpriced and locked appliances from a monopoly-making company. The only way to stop this is to stop buying shitty products. Their mobile market sha
by alt255isback 5y ago
People buy overpriced and locked appliances from a monopoly-making company. The only way to stop this is to stop buying shitty products. Their mobile market share is huge, why would they stop doing this when customers keep on buying?
- post_break 5y agoWhy do people pay comcast for terrible internet? The illusion of choice is here. iOS has gravity. Can't facetime with your parents on holidays? Don't have imessage? Group texts are a nightmare when someone doesn't have imessage. All of these things pull people to iOS. Just being like "don't like skiing? then don't ski" isn't an argument.
- askafriend 5y agoIf you don’t like skiing then you really don’t have to ski. There’s a billion alternatives to Facetime. There’s a billion cross-platform messengers. Etc Comcast is not at all a comparable situation.
- post_break 5y agoHow many ISP choices do you have at your place? How many cell phone providers are there where you live who are not an MNVO? How many mobile operating systems are there? This is my point. You think you have a choice in the matter, but when it comes down to it you really dont.