Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store

Post by renjimen » Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 9:50 AM UTC

mcphage wrote: post #329

renjimen wrote: post #155

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There are thankfully many publishers and booksellers, each with their own ideas of how to do business. If you buy an iPhone you only have one place to "shop"

> There are thankfully many publishers and booksellers, each with their own ideas of how to do business. There are also thankfully many phone manufacturers, each with their own ideas of how to do business.

But only really two phone operating systems to choose from and many reasons why you are stuck with an iPhone (I have one for work, many friends have one so they can use iMessage, group think, etc.).

I think the book analogy is a poor one, sorry!

Post by r_c_a_d » Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 8:10 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #386

r_c_a_d wrote: post #363

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My phone is on and with me for less than 50% of the time. Just saying; phones are not as important to everyone as you think. (yes, I am over 40)

I'm sure you probably "haven't owned a TV in 10 years" and wonder "do people still watch TV". Yes that was a popular post on Slashdot years ago.

Why would you be sure of that? As it happens, I have a TV and watch it every day.

In fact, research (in the UK) suggests that people who use phones less are more likely to watch TV than people who use them a lot.

It wasn't my intention to "boast" that I don't use a phone much. The post I responded to was making a point based on the assumption that "we" have our phones on 100% of the time. I was just trying to point out that there are people in that "we" for which that is not true.

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