Jeff Johnson on Nostr: iPhone may be the most financially successful hardware product of all time, yet Apple ...
iPhone may be the most financially successful hardware product of all time, yet Apple lockdown defenders still claim that the platform needs to be monetized from the revenue of third-party software developers, most of whom make approximately infinitely less money than Apple.
It’s a ridiculous argument in principle, and empirically disproven by the Mac, but somehow it’s taken seriously in the media.
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