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I see comments like yours, and I seriously can't tell if you're trolling or whether you genuinely believe this. However, I'll try to answer (once) in good faith
by tsycho 3y ago
I see comments like yours, and I seriously can't tell if you're trolling or whether you genuinely believe this. However, I'll try to answer (once) in good faith.
There are so many things in life, due to either scarcity, lack of options, laws, or prior investments that we have made, that we can't leave them easily, even when we dislike a subset of our choice.
If you hate Comcast's service, but they are the only available broadband option in your city, would you leave your city just for better internet?
If you don't like 10% of the policies of your current government, but dislike 50% of the policies of the opposition, would you start your own political party?
I like a lot of things about iOS as a user, including the quality of their hardware, but I dislike the dictatorial control that Apple exerts over both developers and consumers. Not just their anti-steering provisions (which is pure rent seeking), and lack of sideloading (which I want), there's no way for me to write my own app and install it on my own device, and have it run permanently without paying Apple even more money.
I bought the phone at full price, I hate Apple's attitude that I have just bought the privilege of using it as per however they see fit. And so, similar to above, my alternative is to switch to something like f-droid, and lose my hardware, lose my purchases, and in many cases, lose my ability to even use my phone for standard communication (eg: iMessage). Or maybe you would suggest that I build my own phone company
In all these cases, the alternative option is possible, yes, but it's very impractical and infeasible for the vast majority of people to pursue, and they come with serious negative costs. So we pursue them only when things become unbearably bad, as a last resort.
And so the feasible option is to complain, protest, and try to leverage the government/courts to change the rules so that large companies can't take advantage of us and keep exploiting us in a "boil the frog" manner. And if that doesn't work, then one day, my cup of frustration will overflow, and I will switch over to f-droid or something
- carlosjobim 3y agoDo you have your troll accusation saved in a text file to copy and paste when you write comments? Are you so far up in your own ego that anybody who has a different opinion or take than you has to be a troll, and still consider yourself writing in "good faith"? You are comparing individual consumers and citizens with a powerful billion dollar company like Spotify. They should be able to take care of themselves, and if they can't they should fail and close shop. > And so, similar to above, my alternative is to switch to something like f-droid No, and this has become a strange hang-up of hackers. You can have an iPhone _and_ an Android phone with F-Droid. Apple do not send agents to break into your house and force their devices out of your hands when they get notice that you've bought a Samsung. Have both and use each as they benefit you. My recommendation is that you purchase devices that fit your needs. I like feeling the breeze when I drive, but I don't petition the European Union to force Toyota to add a window that can be opened in the windshield. Instead I go for a motorcycle ride. That doesn't mean I have to get rid off my car.
- madsbuch 3y agoyour comments are so light gray that I need to select the text to even read it. it seems like consensus is that it is trolling. Spotify did take care of themselves. that is what we are seeing the result of now.
- carlosjobim 3y agoArgument by down votes only tells something about the people down voting and those who give credit to such behaviour. Let's see who can boo the loudest! Yes Spotify didn't want to invest time, money and effort to win customers in the free market, so they went to the bureaucrats to force Apple to let them get access to their customer base. And the bureaucrats got to steal some juicy billions for themselves, because this fine is not going to consumers. It's kind of ironic if you consider what kind of business model Spotify themselves have, but this probably goes over the heads of down voting hackers.
- madsbuch 3y agowhat free market? can you explain me what a free market is like I was a 2 year old? if Spotify hire a militia and let them demolish all Apples offices, is that just the free market? Apple should just have invested more in defense.
- carlosjobim 3y agoUh, is this something that was brought up at the developers conference and I missed? Or was this in Spotify's quarterly reports?
- saurik 3y agoJust because a company is also evil itself doesn't mean that it can't make a very correct point about anther company's clearly despicable behavior.