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But one is forever and one is only for as long as you maintain indentured servitude to the richest company on the planet.
by toyg 5y ago
But one is forever and one is only for as long as you maintain indentured servitude to the richest company on the planet.
- bzzzt 5y agoForever seems like a stretch. When Switch is succeeded, how long before Nintendo shuts the Switch shop down? You can't legally move downloaded games between consoles.
- colejohnson66 5y agoThis was a big issue with WiiWare when Nintendo shut down the Wii Shop. People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything.
- mcphage 5y ago> People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything You can still redownload things. Nintendo says at some point they'll turn that off, but they haven't said when yet.
- colejohnson66 5y agoAh. My mistake. My point still stands: you're at the whims of Nintendo.
- toyg 5y agoDownload is only one way to buy Switch games, and at least I'll still be able to use one console - compared to zero as soon as I stop paying my feudal obligations to Apple.
- colejohnson66 5y agoNot every game on the Switch Store is available on cartridge
- nottorp 5y agoAlso most indie games require more brainpower than what Apple Arcade offers. Apple wouldn't know a complex game if a pile of discs with them fell on their heads.
- spiderice 5y agoThat’s kind of the point. What’s an Apple Arcade game doing on the switch at all? It’s just a money grab to sell a mobile game on the switch.
- scoot 5y ago"Indentured".
- toyg 5y agota, fixed
- erikpukinskis 5y agoI will maintain servitude to Apple for the rest of my life because of iMessage: if I leave they can subtly “break” my access to messaging with people I care about (and have done so.)
- oarsinsync 5y ago> because of iMessage: if I leave they can subtly “break” my access to messaging with people I care about (and have done so.) Even if you made sure to unregister your phone number and email addresses from iMessage first? You can do this while still using an iPhone to validate that it's worked before you give it up.
- kergonath 5y ago> Even if you made sure to unregister your phone number and email addresses from iMessage first? You can do this while still using an iPhone to validate that it's worked before you give it up. You are right, of course. And you can also do it afterwards if you forgot. There is no nefarious plan to void your messages when you change phone.
- the_other 5y ago> maintain indentured servitude The "lock-in" and the lack of ownership/copyright extension for media provided by their service is absolutely a problem, but it's not "servitude". There's a couple of other members of FAANG where the relationship with users is much more like servitude.
- toyg 5y agoThe fact that one lord is more benevolent than another doesn't mean that the feudal system, as a whole, is just fine.
- monkey_monkey 5y agoIdeological language like this just makes it easy to dismiss you and your arguments.
- toyg 5y agoAnd despite that, you still failed to do it.
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