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14th_cylon

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14th_cylon ,

You might have found out if you bothered to read the discussion before sharing your opinion.

14th_cylon , (edited )

Your "rhetorical question" and objections you raised were already answered in this thread before you raised them.

14th_cylon ,

Why are you asking me?

because you are the one who started it. people usually contribute information into public discussion with hope it will be useful to other readers.

I’m not the one accusing others of “nOt rEaDiNg dA tHrEaD bEfOrE u AsKeD a qUeStOn”.

no, you are the one AsKIng rHETOrIcal qUEsTioN 🤣

No one has actually provided an on-topic reply to it yet.

you were pointed to the fact that your questions were already answered and you can easily read these answers. that is as on topic as it can get.

you chose weird hill to die on.

14th_cylon ,

Didn’t happen.

do some red circles and arrows help?

https://i.imgur.com/jRZEXMP.png

Also didn’t happen.

https://i.imgur.com/jWklAWh.png

14th_cylon ,

If you are a troll, well done. If you are really that dellusional, please get help.

14th_cylon ,

I think the point was that it is easier and faster to generate that image you put the logo on than ever before, not that it was a comment on "logo inserting technology"

14th_cylon ,

And that 90% is average number, it's quite possible that with his money that number would be higher...

14th_cylon ,

big part of apple's success is that it successfully establishes itself as a status symbol - it is for a lot of people what car was for generation of their parents and grandparents.

so there will definitely be a clientele for that two times expensive whatever. some people will buy it just to show others they can afford it, same reason why people were buying overpriced cars.

14th_cylon ,

no, they don't. you (the reader) have to pay for them - if you want to be the client, that is. otherwise you are the goods that is being sold.

14th_cylon ,

i do care a lot about your doubts. do you have more of them? 🤣

14th_cylon ,

oh yes, routing all traffic into limited number of bottlenecks is excellent for privacy 🤣

14th_cylon ,
  1. Concrete link to a phone number

There are anonymous prepaid phone cards. Phone number does not really mean anything.

14th_cylon ,

A few billion could provide free high-speed internet to everyone worldwide

Since there is about few billion people on earth, does that mean that high speed internet costs about a dollar per person? You did not think this through, did you?

14th_cylon ,

It re-enforces the idea that he is a "genius" who is playing "4D Chess" and that he "has a plan"

No, it does not. It makes him look like a kid without any kind of self control (which he probably is anyway)

And it does that on a platform where it reaches hundreds of people! :D

So just calm down, no one cares

14th_cylon ,

Internet access is one of those things that requires infrastructure that gets cheaper per user as it scales up.

that is... misleading at best. yes, it is cheaper to connect apartment building with 1000 apartments inside than solitary farm in the middle of nowhere, but it is still lot more expensive than you think. the fibers and putting them into ground costs fuckton of money. same goes for wireless technology. your one dollar per user does not even cover ethernet socket inside of the apartment.

The cost we pay here in the US is mostly profit for the oligopolies that control the last mile.

seems to me that you should start your own business, start putting fibers into ground and become ridiculously rich!

https://newsthump.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Conspiracy-theorist-900x510.jpg

There are eight billion people on earth, so it’s even cheaper.

i will skip over the part where you decided that you can compare "few" and "eight" in size, and point out that your logic means you have less(more) money per user, not that it is cheaper(more expensive).

In other words, cost of the internet is inflated by force, not because internet access is expensive to construct and maintain.

in other words, you know about as much about building internet infrastructure as this guy knows about dealing with hurricanes.

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5d717a034618300008e1873a/master/w_1920,c_limit/Cassidy-Sharpiegate.jpg

just admit you pulled these numbers out of your ass and move on...

14th_cylon ,

that theory doesn't really work here, because you don't have what they have.

if someone makes bread, you can also start making bread and people don't care, it is still a bread.

if someone has and sells game of thrones, you can't just make your own game of thrones with blackjack and hookers. you can make something similar, but it is not going to be the same and some people will still want to see game of thrones, which is why the market is so fragmented.

14th_cylon ,

That is increasingly not true, which is why there is so many different platforms - every rights owner rather starts their own platform, than licensing to someone else and sharing the profit.

14th_cylon ,

Trans etc. are always a minority, obviously. They would not have to fight for their rights otherwise.

no one should have to fight for their right, but that doesn't change the fact that non-trans people enjoy customizing their os as well. so answer to the original question is yes, it is a loud minority.

14th_cylon ,

iphone is clever marketing scheme to become a status symbol for a generation that no longer has a car as one.

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