Sues corning for making all that glass that transmitted the piracy.

Some of the most unruly people I’ve ever known are women. I think women just emphasize better and with media from a connection to those who are in or made the media.

I just see three cables on my desk for keyboard, mouse, and headphones and I prefer it like that.

Aesthetics are illogical and often times social conformity rather than personal desire. Like those stupid coiled USB C cables for keyboards that do nothing.

That way instead of having cables for data and power you can have cables for just power and pay more for the device.

I don’t understand the appeal of Bluetooth mice and keyboards while at a desk.

Even renters have rights. If you’re buying something like this you likely have no rights in the matter and the license you agreed to made sure of it.

I agree but they are not technically market monopolies.

This isn’t how market competition is done though. Otherwise every product you listed is a monopoly.

Are you’re saying competition doesn’t exist because products aren’t the same?

I’m trying to not disparage your argument here but if I go with your reasoning then I feel like there is no competition so that you can justify prices not going down. Where I believe competition simply doesn’t lower prices because capitalism desires more profit not less profit. Why fight over scraps when you can create a market by manipulating people into thinking: Green chat bubble mean poor so me no use RCS or open blue bubble because green bubble mean poor.

If competition didn’t exist for apple then they could give android an imessage app.

They certainly do compete with each other but it’s just a general misconception that competition lowers prices.

Pepsi and Coke have been competing with each other for decades and Coke has larger market share. So why doesn’t Pepsi just lower prices? Pepsi even has the diversified income of doing more than drinks. Lowering prices doesn’t lead to market share and Coke can just match the price.

Look at Apple’s growth in the American market, they can sell a product that is significantly more expensive than competitors and still gain market share.

Really funny because you can’t sue a gun maker for the guns they sold killing people. I say funny but I mean that it’s so depressing I have to laugh to maintain sanity.

By that same rational: My not getting a raise is a lost sale because if I had more money I would buy more. So is corporate profit a lost sale?

I wouldn’t ever buy the content so it’s not a lost sale either. All I’ve done is copy a file. gasp

Tbf all of those are holdouts from old video game licenses. (That I also don’t agree with)

Apple set the standard for the app store cut and gets that cut on a lot more than video games as well as having a much more needed use case (phones are closer to a need than a console) that you can’t get around.

I consider iPhones and iPads to be personal computers and of all personal computers they are the only ones that don’t allow you to get applications from 3rd parties.

As an American I’d prefer they not be American. I fucking loathe the people who let American conservatives spit in their mouth and ask for more.

I don’t know what dumb fucker looks at Mississippi or West Virginia and aspires to be like that.

Not to be that guy but capitalists and oligarchs are basically the same thing given enough time. As soon as people have capital they have more power and with more power comes influence.

Lol good point

Most SUVs and Trucks now are pavement princesses. I respect the hell out of people who buy minivans now.

Lol I used to keep a bale of straw in the bed all winter to get traction. Apparently I’m a hillbilly.

But it can’t afford to run less efficient tires because it has too much air resistance and the range would suffer. There’s a reason why other Teslas have no flat panels or straight lines.

It’s a 100,000 vehicle with plastic hubcaps.

They’ve been given to billions of people at this point and with a sample size that large it’s surprising how safe they are.