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Cory Doctorow
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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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Train YIMBY 🚂
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@pluralistic 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
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@NBAnthony2k 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.

@pluralistic What measurable metrics you think will change once 3rd party app stores are allowed on iphone?