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If ending my Apple Music subscription was going to shift the future to be one where I can conveniently self-host or access a similar but open non-corporate impl

• rglullis 3y ago
  > I know those things aren't connected at all Of course they are connected. You may be right that Apple would be largely unaffected by a small group of people dropping them, but you also need to look at the other side of the market. If a small-but-meaningful minority puts a strong signal that they refuse to pay for corporate-controlled services but do want to pay for "independent" alternatives, then you have the right incentive for some player to show up and satisfy this demand. You'll be "degrading your experience" only in the beginning, but with continued support the alternatives would be surpass the incumbent. It could be seen as an investment. It's not that different from the "Linux on the desktop" case. Yes, using Linux over Windows was "difficult" in 2008-2012, but if it were not for the people willing to drop Windows then we would never had companies like Canonical and Valve willing to make a bet on it. And Linux might have ~4% of the desktop share, but you'd have a hard time to argue that Windows is objectively "better" and today it's more likely that people will migrating from Windows to Linux than the opposite direction.