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A comment on Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing. Parent comment

Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by fastaguy88 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:55AM (#27255935)
Pretty hard to know who the minority is in this case. Based on other HN opinions about Apple products, there seems to be a consensus that Apple customers are mostly not tech savvy. If they were, they wouldn’t buy Apple stuff.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by gjsman-1000 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:33PM (#27256323)
Even though this is a stereotype not grounded in reality and there are plenty of techie people who buy Apple products.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by lanstin on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:54PM (#27256508)
Lots of tech folks buy apple and at the same time vast majority of Apple customers should not be trusted to do valid security assessment or maintain good operational security.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by akudha on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:13PM (#27259845)
I am not particularly a fan of Apple. Still, I think Apple is better than Google. That is how sad the situation is. There is simply no choice other than iOS and Android. I really wish Microsoft hadn't given up so soon on windows phone. Microsoft isn't great either, but at least there would be three choices instead of two.

I hope projects like Librem 5 succeed, but they are a long way :(

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by tshaddox on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:07PM (#27256617)
Why is it hard to know? Apple has at most like a 20% market share globally, and around 50% in the United States. The overwhelming majority of smartphone owners have a non-Apple smartphone.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by fastaguy88 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:02AM (#27272473)
What is hard to know is whether Apple (iPhone) users are sophisticated enough to not be exploited by non-Apple App stores.
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