Consumers are not dumb, they’re just nearly powerless.
Workers and consumers actually have all the power, they just don’t want to inconvenience themselves by using it. Collective action has destroyed empires and absolutely can annihilate multinationals.
Very untrue. Consumers have the power to buy far cheaper Android phones where they have far more freedoms, but not only do the majority of American consumers refuse to do this, they voluntarily and systematically shame those who do.
Statistically, Most American consumers are pretty dumb and act against their own interests
Apple iPhones are awesome if you like being three years behind in tech and paying double the price for that privilege
Sounds like you never used Android.
Boy the Apple fanbois sure are a sensitive bunch
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Apple is a religion. Android is pragmatism.
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Actually that’s incorrect. One is a closed system, and the other is open source and accessible by the entire planet, and not specific to any corporation. You are confusing it with either Samsung or Google. Android works outside of their ecosphere. The only tribalists are the Apple fanbois as it’s the only actual tribe
Consumers literally do not have a choice to buy the services the article was discussing – apple’s media streamers – from someone else. Apple monopolizes that content.
RTFA. It is not about phones.
And even for phones, to get a functionally-acceptable product, your choice is one of maybe 5 manufacturers who all tacitly collude to keep prices up and keep unprofitable consumer choices far, far away.
The power to buy a product or not is all the power. Consumers may be apathetic about a price raise but they are still choosing.
And why are they powerless? That’s right, dumb consumers.
Pirating TV is absurdly easy these days.
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