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Technocarcinization, Apple and Google becoming more like Facebook with both surveillance and control. (pluralistic.net)
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Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That kind of thing is true of purely standalone products. Your local Starbucks franchise is making more money than your cool indie coffee shop because on average, people like Starbucks better.

People use smartphones to run third-party apps. They want to have the kinds of smartphones that run the apps they use. The same effect made Windows dominant even though most people didn't really like it.