> I just installed Xcode
I think you are overestimating the tech know-how of the average person and how driven the average teenager is. TikTok a year ago was pretty unique, but now you have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. I'd bet a hard money that 99% of people will just switch to those in a heartbeat if TikTok was banned.
> Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.
What they want is cheap dopamine hit from the smartphone. It's really close to drugs, make heroin hard to get and people will go to an analog like fentanyl.
Except a MacBook costs $1000+ when TikTok clones are free
Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
by murukesh_s on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:59PM
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I guess many of us underestimate how many teenagers own a smartphone but not a laptop/desktop computer. In older generation it was the reverse, people owned a laptop/desktop before owning a smartphone..
Even if they have a computer, it's not necessarily going to be an Apple computer. Unless you're a developer, interoperability between your mobile hardware and your desktop hardware is barely a concern.
Most kids didn’t rip CDs though, they had a friend who was good with computers that occasionally did this for them.
Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
by hunter-gatherer on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:10PM
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> I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.
Like the commenter above you said; I too have a bridge to sell.
We ripped CDs so we didn’t have to buy them. Hell, we sat by boomboxes until the right song came on the radio just to push record on the tape player.
Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.