Apple’s most valuable intangible asset isn’t its patents or copyrights - it’s an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple’s shareholders.

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  • NBAnthony2k@mastodo.neoliber.al
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    8 months ago

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr I wonder how this will age when you can do a 3rd party app store and the iphone and its customer base remains basically unchanged.

    I find condescending commentary like this very weird. Iphones are simply really nice to use. Having a phone thats nice to use seems like a weird concept to some people.

    • Cory Doctorow@mamot.frOP
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      8 months ago

      @NBAnthony2k@mastodo.neoliber.al I assure you, I find commentary that assumes that Apple spends millions of dollars lobbying to prevent the emergence of rival app stores that no one would use anyway even more baffling.