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The unfortunate reality of global business is that those components will simply end up in other devices. The companies which sell the devices will just try hard
by bilbo0s 14y ago
The unfortunate reality of global business is that those components will simply end up in other devices. The companies which sell the devices will just try harder to hide it from the consumer.
The pressure needs to be put not so much on Apple, as on the industry... or the practices continue pretty much unabated.
Unless Apple really does turn into a monopoly.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoSince consumers have no visibility into the problem nor ability to solve the problem, I disagree that it starts with them (but it needs to get to them eventually). Apple wields a very large, very concentrated number of dollars, which may be enough to get the ball rolling. Other higher-end electronics companies may decide that, for marketing reasons, they will only work with "Apple approved" vendors or may decide the positive press is worth approving their own. It will be some time before the fifty-cent, crap electronics are reached, but you have to start somewhere.