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App Stores, the web, etc. How else does software as a service get sold? It’s not a new thing. Probably a lot of these things will just end up as features in existing systems.

> but whose populations are nonetheless healthier.

Population health is not caused by medicine.

> Or are you talking about the problem of the severe ideological divide?

Since you suggested that ideology is the “problem”, I would in fact be very interested to know if you have any ideas about how to solve it?

Why wouldn't people just use existing software markets?

> The fundamental loophole is that "the free market" is practically a religion in the United States

Blaming something for being practically a religion is about as empty a piece of reasoning as it's possible to make.

Why not actually suggest a solution rather than just throwing your hand up at the whole thing?

It’s an imaginary line.

Apple didn’t mainstream anything, indeed they withdrew the plan after the discourse was overwhelmingly opposed to the idea.

A smart person who systematically mis-categorizes the world is worse than an idiot acting at random.

Or not, and these aren’t really analogies and in fact are just gibberish.

Battery replacements aren’t prohibitively expensive, and iPhone at least don’t get ‘thrown out’ - they get recycled or reconditioned.

It's a linux distro. It was already open source.

> I'm sorry I just cannot understand your point at all.

Unnecessary batteries being sold = people profiting from waste.

Always at a cost.

> Why exactly would people change batteries that don't need to be changed? Phones do have battery health indicators, and buying one costs money.

You can't seriously be saying you don't understand why people buy things they don't need.

More materials will be used. People will change batteries that don’t need to be changed, and will buy and carry more batteries than they need. There will be a massive inventory of batteries in the supply chain, many of which will simply age out of their shelf life before ever being useful.

The chances of this being a net gain for the environment are basically zero, but the waste will make money for a bunch of people.

Harming the world more like, by making phones more fragile and less reliable.