Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
by blazespin on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:24PM
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Clearly the OP doesn't have a teenage daughter. If he did, he'd realize that you have to have an iphone in order to be accepted into the communication clique caused by iMessages / AirDrop.
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Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
by riversflow on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:58PM
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How is this different from game consoles? The gap between Xbox Live and PlayStation Network was a big deal when I was in high school. If all your friends played Xbox, and your parents got you a PlayStation, you were socially isolated. Nobody is saying that MS and Sony must make everything 100% cross-platform compatible, but then there aren’t tens of thousands of indie game developers to complain about it.
Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
by braythwayt on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:37PM
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I have an adolescent daughter. She laughs at me being a fuddy-duddy wanting to use iMessage and FaceTime. Her friends are all on Discourse and TikTok(!)
N=1 and all that, I can totally believe that there are other social clusters on different ecosystems.