Re:Gemini CLI
by bloppe on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:16AM
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This is exactly the kind of innovation Apple apologists don't realize they're missing out on in the walled garden. You could still have easy, centralized billing with all-in-one management and one-click cancellation, while paying 30% less for everything. Give the free market a chance.
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This IS the free market ya dingus.
It's not a free market without meaningful choice.
You can't say a slave is free because their master is free to enslave them, and they're free to escape if they can. Sometimes you need rules to create real freedom.
Re:Gemini CLI
by skinnymuch on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:48AM
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That is the free market. That is why libertarians love the free market.
Idk if you just have a bone to pick with libertarians, but monopolized markets by definition are not free markets, regardless of how they arise
Re:Gemini CLI
by Traubenfuchs on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:24AM
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But the only way to have it centralized is to have it integrated in iOS.
Stripe already is a second place, non centralized, off platform.
I don't want to hunt down my predatory subscriptions in multiple places.
Why do you think that's the only way? Payment processors have long been able to differentiate recurring transactions from one-offs.
How the platform and the vendor split that money is irrelevant to me, and I’m not convinced this would become cheaper - evidently consumers are willing to pay the current price, so why wouldn’t the vendor just increase their profit?
In the same vein: Games don’t cost less on the epic store despite their lower (compared to Steam) either, so as an end user it makes no difference where I buy games.
https://expertbeacon.com/why-epic-games-is-cheaper-than-stea...
Maybe you like paying an extra 20%. That's your business. But fees like that affect the viability of lots of business ideas, including games. Having lower fees increases the pool of indie games.