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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers by toyg on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:21AM (#24894541)
It's not an all-or-nothing. One side perpetuates ignorance to keep consumer prices high; the other balances out to produce just enough technicians to keep wages low. They don't need everyone to be a technician, but they do need everyone to be a consumer.

If you think of it as a firewall around knowledge, it's basically like this set of rules:

  Deny: all

  Allow: <specific group>
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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers by drdeadringer on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:42PM (#24901146)
Now I know it's me missing something:

How does limiting the supply of technicians lower their wages? Is it because Apple is limiting their own supply of available technicians? Why can't a given technician go elsewhere -- is that because the "don't poach treaty" never stopped or something else?

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