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On the contrary, I care because I don't buy these things at all, yet my taxes are being used to subsidise the people that do.

To be fair, prices in Aus have been heavily subsidised until recently.

It doesn't have to be this way though. What you're describing is a result of Apple intentionally prioritizing native over web apps to maintain control of their lucrative walled garden.

Related - Charles Foster has put perhaps the most effort of any individual to try to really understand what it's like to live as an animal. From the blurb or 'Being a Beast':

> He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; rooted through London garbage cans as an urban fox; was hunted by bloodhounds as a red deer, nearly dying in the snow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Foster

Solving conciousness feels similarly futile to "solving" the number 42.

There are infinite scenarios (what is the square root of 1764? How many mushrooms are in my vegetable box? ...) which yield the sought result.

What suggests it wouldn't be the same for conciousness (neurons in a cortex, vectors in a GPU, alien biology we have yet to discover...)?

The void in the market would be quickly filled by a competitor (users in other threads have mentioned TikTok...). Whether or not this is a negative is an exercise left to the reader.