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0 pointsavalys4y ago0 comments

Give me a break. Those teens can choose between Twitter, Youtube, Discord, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, along with, you know, the rest of the public internet.

But 90% of them will still be doing all of this on an Apple device. Yet you think Facebook is the company to worry about, not Apple?

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supernova87a4y ago

> Those teens can choose between Twitter, Youtube, Discord, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, along with, you know, the rest of the public internet.

So you just demonstrated that teens have so much choice. Why are you concerned that they're doing it on an Apple device then, if an iPhone is just the hardware on which all these apps operate, and has nothing to do with what's said within the apps?

avalysOP4y ago

Because regardless of which service they choose to use, Apple controls the platform they’re running on in every case. They actually don’t have a meaningful choice in that area.

Imagine it was Amazon in this situation. Or Microsoft. Or Google. Or, gasp, Facebook. Where 90% of teens were using a hardware and software platform made by one company. Seems like a problem, right?

Imagine how much people would be freaking out if Facebook came out with a phone and OS and had 90% of teens using it. The wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from the Moon.

zepto4y ago

It doesn’t seem like a problem at all. You seem to be just saying that without explaining it.

The communication is not being done using software that Apple provides.

People have a vast array of choices for communications and Apple isn’t harming that.

In addition, there is nothing preventing Google or Facebook from executing on what Apple does other than their own lack of focus.

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threeseed4y ago

> Apple controls the platform they’re running on in every case. They actually don’t have a meaningful choice in that area.

Except they do. They can choose to use Android like many non-teens do.

Where all of those apps except for one is available.

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supernova87a4y ago

> Those teens can choose between Twitter, Youtube, Discord, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, along with, you know, the rest of the public internet.

avalysOP4y ago

Because regardless of which service they choose to use, Apple controls the platform they’re running on in every case. They actually don’t have a meaningful choice in that area.

Imagine how much people would be freaking out if Facebook came out with a phone and OS and had 90% of teens using it. The wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from the Moon.

zepto4y ago

It doesn’t seem like a problem at all. You seem to be just saying that without explaining it.

The communication is not being done using software that Apple provides.

People have a vast array of choices for communications and Apple isn’t harming that.

In addition, there is nothing preventing Google or Facebook from executing on what Apple does other than their own lack of focus.

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threeseed4y ago

> Apple controls the platform they’re running on in every case. They actually don’t have a meaningful choice in that area.

Except they do. They can choose to use Android like many non-teens do.

Where all of those apps except for one is available.

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