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@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology
Oh, I do get it. Hardware is the gross majority of their revenue. I don't even have to check ChatGPT's work on that one, even though I don't generally trust it to be factually accurate any more than I could lob a 747 across a football field.
But (and this is a tenuous argument to make, so bear with me)... just because their income is from hardware doesn't necessarily make them a hardware company.
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology
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Their business model isn't straight-up hardware. Delta, the faucet company? THAT is hardware. Intel? Hardware. AMD? Hardware. NVIDIA? Hardware.
#Apple though? Yes, they make their money FROM hardware... but they do not make their money BECAUSE of hardware. They make their money because of vendor lock-in, reputation, and their vaunted ecosystem.
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology
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The only reason I would buy an iPhone would be... because the hardware is great? Heck no. The hardware is trivial to replace/repoduce. Samsung makes far better hardware, IMHO, and I've never had a Samsung phone. It's the interplay between hardware, software, ecosystem, luxury brand status, and vendor lock-in.
People don't buy iPhones because they're great phones. They're GOOD, but pretty grossly overpriced phones.
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PEOPLE BUY iPHONES SO THAT THEY CAN FACETIME THEIR MOM.
People buy iPhones so they can have freaking blue-bubble status in chats.
People buy iPhones not because they are good, but because they are iPhones.
That is simply not a hardware company. It's a luxury brand. It's a corporate cult. It's... something else, man. :/
@RL_Dane An iPhone is a hardware dongle for an iOS license.
@clacke @praxeology @Mastokarl @sean @sam
I guess? I don't think they care so much about restricting the usage of iOS to specific hardware (like an old fashioned hardware copy protection dongle) as they do restricting what *you* do with the hardware and software so that you're beholden to their "ecosystem."
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