Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by pessimizer on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:36PM (#27258368)

This is what they're talking about when they say that productivity gains have gone only to the wealthiest. Buying an album digitally, when every single step in the production and distribution of that album have become an order of magnitude cheaper (outside of labor costs, which somehow remain flat no matter what), costs the same as it did 50 years ago.

Every part of application distribution has become cheaper, so you lock down every platform and charge the same percentage.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by grishka on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:48PM (#27258461)

So what? Why does the price have to remain the same despite technological advancements that are totally capable of reducing it to almost zero? It's as if we suddenly discovered a way to produce unlimited amounts of food, for free, anywhere in the world, but food manufacturers would start raising a stink about how important it is that people would still starve.

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