Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by damnyou on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:21PM (#25143996)

Not fine by me regardless of monopoly status, and I believe it should be not fine by public policy either.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by tesmar2 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:46PM (#25144273)

Not fine for a company to sell you a device on their own terms?

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by chrisseaton on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:23PM (#25144633)

If you don't like the Apple ecosystem, feel free to ignore it. Just pretend it doesn't exist.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by damnyou on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:44PM (#25145991)

I can pretend Apple's ecosystem doesn't exist, but I can't pretend that all of the negative externalities of Apple's ecosystem don't exist.

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