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Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa... by shmerl on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:17PM (#17681080)
> Megacompany sounds intimidating, but I perceive Apple to be quite tame. They mostly just make hardware.

They cause enough damage to the industry by being crazy bent on lock-in. They are even worse than MS in this. And with more money, that damage will be only worse.

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Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa... by chosenbreed on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:34PM (#17681273)
Okay...but presumably people can just opt out of their products. They make an amazing amount of margin on the devices. A lot people know that and are more than happy to buy their products :-)
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Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa... by shmerl on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:39PM (#17683432)
> Okay...but presumably people can just opt out of their products.

The damage will be simply passed to other users in the form of lock-in tax that developers will need to compensate. It's all interdependent.

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