Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by ouid on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:14PM
(#34527296)
What you are noticing is that competition is literally the worst strategy that corporations can adopt with respect to each other. Apple and Samsung probably have the keys to each other's destruction, but destroying the other would be bad because the remaining party would become a "monopoly" which is a loss condition, So the destruction is mutually assured, and intrinsic cooperation is possible. There's more money to be made cooperating, so the result is we lose the headphone jack.
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by hot_gril on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:11AM
(#34528223)
I figured the same, but I'm still a little surprised because there are so many major Android phonemakers who should be competing. It's Samsung, LG, Google (Pixel), etc. Though the software is a duopoly of course.
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by steve1977 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:08AM
(#34529832)
Destroying the other company would primarily be bad because Apple is a good customer of Samsung ;)
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts
by asiachick on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:56PM
(#34527508)
someone will turn this into politics at some point. Someone will promote that reds use Android and Windows PCs, blues use iPhone and Macs. Then you'll need to fall in line or get cancelled.
not looking forward to it.
The scarier thing they have is other users' loyalty on phones. Android has the same. I feel like nobody switches between the two anymore like the older days, and there was a distinct time when they switched from making what the user might want to deciding what the user wants. So both players do anti-consumer stuff in lock-step like removing headphone jacks to sell more accessories. I don't mind holding onto an old phone to avoid that, but there's a limit. AT&T stopped serving my iPhone 5.