Economic genius.
Comment on Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough
Cephirux@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Please vote with your money. Don’t waste money and buy overpriced stuff and certainly don’t support this kind of business practice. And fuck the shareholders too. If they want money, then work like most people.
rebul@kbin.social 11 months ago
Cephirux@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Is this sarcasm? I don’t think I’m a genius, just giving a reminder, and perhaps a flaw in capitalism.
admiralteal@kbin.social 11 months ago
For what it's worth, this is all their media platforms the article is talking about.
It's copyright monopoly. You can only buy this stuff from them. A boycott just won't work so long as the platforms are allowed to hoard the copyright.
I don't personally think any of these Apple products have an compelling offerings, so it's easy for me to not buy them. But for someone who does, it's not a real choice. There's no competitor or alternative. Only they have the content they have. It's a piece of the story that gets disregarded so easily, as we retreat quicker and quicker from the nearly-realized world of being able to get everything on one platform.
The consumer will continue to get fucked until we start seeing adversarial interoperability mandated all over the place. A market approach to protecting consumers cannot possibly work when there is no market.
burliman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Already do. Used to buy new phone every year. Now it’s every three years or so. That is completely due to price and lack of compelling innovation. Don’t care if shareholders make money or not. I just like good value.
oce@jlai.lu 11 months ago
You can try 5 years with Fairphones, it’s the length of their warranty and you can repair it yourself easily.