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> "The market" has done no such thing (the atrocious Kindle Fires excepted) so if you have a beef with the "Google experience" (I personally don't) you're prett
by w1ntermute 14y ago
> "The market" has done no such thing (the atrocious Kindle Fires excepted) so if you have a beef with the "Google experience" (I personally don't) you're pretty much screwed.
Because the market has decided that it likes the Google experience.
- eropple 14y ago"The market" being willing to purchase something is not a referendum on quality or on individual desirability. It is a measure of acceptance, not like; by that sort of assumption, "the market" also "likes" having their bowel movements tracked by Facebook. Maybe people don't know of alternatives to the Google experience. Maybe the alternatives are too different, as with the Fires. Maybe the alternatives are badly executed. None of this means that the holy market likes the Google experience, only that they are willing to buy it. And let's get one thing really very straight: the rhetorical appeal to "the market" is a bald-faced attempt to discredit differing opinions. It's argumentum ad populum fanboy crap. Stop it.