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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by userbinator on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:12PM (#26175106)
It may boggle the tech-savvy mind, but another way of reading the incredibly successful 10 year history of this horribly locked-down, oppressive OS is that the market has spoken. And it's happy.

Don't forget that the market was pushed that way by Apple's highly influential marketing. People didn't really choose to give up their freedom of their own free will --- they were persuaded to, and only found out about the downsides afterwards.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by pjanoman on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:57PM (#26175550)
Users are completely free to not use an Apple product. They have lost no freedom of their own will. Users choose this ecosystem over many other options.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by Siira on Friday February 19, 2021 @11:41AM (#26194907)
People in North Korea have not lost their freedom. They can choose from the many options available to them, including going to South Korea. It’s been observed that most do not choose so.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by gretch on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:30PM (#26175279)
Marketing isn't magic. You can't just take anything and sell it uphill.

If you could, why would anyone try to innovate on any level? Why are software engineers and product people paid more than marketing people at the same company?

Is Apple > Blackberry just because Apple had better marketing? Or Nokia?

On the other hand, if you have something genuinely desirable, then yeah marketing help people find that thing.

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