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Then why doesn’t Samsung just spend twice as much as Apple and take over the entire market? Are they stupid?

That is, indeed, the purpose of advertising.

Advertising and marketing spend exist to make people aware of the device's capabilities and its price. I would be surprised to find that any consumer chooses a device because of its marketing spend and retail shelf space.

Windows is the most popular OS for laptops in the US precisely because it does what people want for a price they want to pay.

Framework needs an audience bigger than that because mostly people don't think in terms of ecosystem, they think in terms of 'does it do what I want for a cost I want to pay' and Apple wins on this.

This reminds me of yahoo.co.jp in a good way

What is that conclusion which differs from the post you replied to? The Amish are mindful about their technology adoption.

I haven’t had a solid schedule since Covid, work just happens whenever and I weave my personal life into it. Sometimes it’s late nights and a weekend, sometimes I take off a random Wednesday and do errands.

The problem Amazon has is that they already designed the perfect e-reader and released it in 2016. It's called the Kindle Oasis. All they had to do was keep making marginal improvements to this design (USB-C, faster processor) every few years. But that doesn't move units, need creation does, and convincing people that they need a new Amazon store front-end requires new form factors.

All these stories of people who have been using the same Kindle for 15 years is not an Amazon success story because those people have not been buying Kindles. It's true even though Amazon makes far more on the margin of sending special locked up text files that were written by someone else.

The picture in the article features Trump holding an iPhone.

Apple needs to get into this space QUICK. They just added concert dates in Apple Music. Let me buy tickets with Apple Pay from the app and it's over.

>I don’t see any of the AI protestors here exclusively wearing hand-loomed fabrics and bespoke clothing and $5,000 cobbler-pounded leather boots while typing angrily on their keyboards. I also don’t see anyone commissioning artisan chair makers and blacksmiths to create $10,000+ custom furniture to sit on while posting pessimistic comments to HN.

We can’t afford those things…

What is it about China that makes you trust them more?

False choice. The US can choose many paths besides “maintain forever” and “cut off entirely without warning.”

Absolutely no one whose job it is to scan barcodes gets paid enough to give a single fuck about how that barcode was created