Also most indie games require more brainpower than what Apple Arcade offers. Apple wouldn't know a complex game if a pile of discs with them fell on their heads.

That’s kind of the point. What’s an Apple Arcade game doing on the switch at all? It’s just a money grab to sell a mobile game on the switch.

> maintain indentured servitude

The "lock-in" and the lack of ownership/copyright extension for media provided by their service is absolutely a problem, but it's not "servitude". There's a couple of other members of FAANG where the relationship with users is much more like servitude.

The fact that one lord is more benevolent than another doesn't mean that the feudal system, as a whole, is just fine.

Forever seems like a stretch. When Switch is succeeded, how long before Nintendo shuts the Switch shop down? You can't legally move downloaded games between consoles.

This was a big issue with WiiWare when Nintendo shut down the Wii Shop. People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything.

> People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything

You can still redownload things. Nintendo says at some point they'll turn that off, but they haven't said when yet.

Ah. My mistake. My point still stands: you're at the whims of Nintendo.

Download is only one way to buy Switch games, and at least I'll still be able to use one console - compared to zero as soon as I stop paying my feudal obligations to Apple.

Not every game on the Switch Store is available on cartridge

And almost every game available on cartridge has some kind of patch only downloadable from the store. Some don't even have all their data on the cartridge and need a download to function at all...

Still more than the zero available for iOS.

Ideological language like this just makes it easy to dismiss you and your arguments.

And despite that, you still failed to do it.

I will maintain servitude to Apple for the rest of my life because of iMessage: if I leave they can subtly “break” my access to messaging with people I care about (and have done so.)

> because of iMessage: if I leave they can subtly “break” my access to messaging with people I care about (and have done so.)

Even if you made sure to unregister your phone number and email addresses from iMessage first? You can do this while still using an iPhone to validate that it's worked before you give it up.

> Even if you made sure to unregister your phone number and email addresses from iMessage first? You can do this while still using an iPhone to validate that it's worked before you give it up.

You are right, of course. And you can also do it afterwards if you forgot. There is no nefarious plan to void your messages when you change phone.

"Indentured".

ta, fixed